S01.E02: The Boy

[paulvdb]

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Russia's disastrous war against Japan prompts civil unrest. Prince Alexei is diagnosed with hemophilia, and Siberian mystic Rasputin steps in.

[Brn2bwild]

In reality, the explosion of Serge's carriage was far worse than showed on screen.

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His body completely exploded, sending pieces far and wide.  One of his fingers, with rings still on them, was found on a roof sometime later.

Also, it's interesting they don't mention that at the time, Serge and Ella were raising Serge's niece and nephew, Maria and Dimitri.  The latter has a rather notorious role with Rasputin.

[Wordsworth]

They finally revealed that Ella and Sergei were married.  

I did appreciate how they showed the charismatic Rasputin reaching out to people with compassion and empathy which attracted them to him.

But, call me a prude, I don't think I've ever seen a show that had so much sexual content that was so unnecessary to move the plot along.  
 

[andromeda331]

Yeah Serge's death was much worse. I wish they had mentioned that after Alexei there weren't a whole lot successors. So many of the Romanov males were either dead or weren't allowed because of their morganatic marriages including Nicholas's brother.