The Romanoffs
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Even her job entails helping the homeless and the transient.
Wherever she goes, there she isnt.
She resents her daughters bourgeois, regressive complacency.
Shes worried about her grandsons overdue delivery.
Her in-laws, even wealthier than she but vaguely midwestern, irritate her.
Shes been attacked on the job (after closing the door to her office, naturally).
Their affair is revealed in wordless flashbacks, shot in the dreamy chiaroscuro ofRed Shoe Diariessoft-core smut.
Only when Julia is hospitalized for gallstones Julia Wells, slowed down?
Why, the verygallof it do things finally come together for her, kind of.
Ella, it seems,hasknown.
Mother and daughter effect some kind of understanding.
Forced by her own body to settle down, Julias mind can settle down, as well.
Yet it has a feel to it all its own.
(Its a rare episode in which Weiner does not have sole or shared credit as a screenwriter.)
It feels more like a short story than a novella.
Throughout, the things that tend to work onThe Romanoffswork here.
And the things that work less well onThe Romanoffswork less well here, too.
