Anybody else catch this? If you have not and have an interest in American history I highly recommend finding this when HBO rebroadcasts it. Paul Giamatti(John) and Laura Linney(Abigal) are fantastic. Infact, I really have no qualms with any of the actors. Even the guy who they cast as Washington looked the part and played it well. HBO has put out some stinkers recently. Buried My Heart At Wounded Knee was horrible, but this restores much of my faith in HBO.
Even though I am not a fan of John Adams (I fall on the Jefferson side of the debates) I think the show is incredible and it just reminds me of how far we've fallen and how we pale im comparison to those men that fought for independence and established a republic.
Yes, someone caught it. I've seen it and loved it. The actor who played George Washington was David Morse
I wouldn't be surprised if you don't see it released on DVD in not too long. They did a good job on the production. It had a high production value and it kept true to the biography too.
What surprised me is that they filmed a lot of scenes with green screen since they couldn't build all the sets necessary. They did a remarkable job with the CGI I can't even tell the difference.
From what I recall from the makings special they did on it, they built a number of buildings without the top facades on them and then they cgi'd those in. Either way the look and feel of each part of the miniseries was incredible.
Seriously if you just call your cable or satellite provider they'll probably offer you some sort of promotional deal, such as 3 or 6 months free HBO. We haven't paid for HBO in a while, and even then it was only for a month or two.
My wife and I watched the whole thing. Superb. Giamatti did a wonderful turn as Adams, and Linney was just as good. Hope this gets a lot of attention. I'd like to see the same treatment given to some of the other founding fathers, like John Jay or James Madison. Maybe even Alexander Hamilton.
Nah. It's easy to seem great when you're fighting for independence and other differences are momentarily marginalized. And it's easy to seem great when the range of issues you're facing is relatively narrow and the issues are relatively straightforward. And it's easy to seem great when your allies are the only ones writing the history books. And it's easy to seem great when you only have to represent the interests of an extremely limited electorate. All victories and defeats are great in great times, and someone always has to win. The founding fathers were politicians like any others, and the overbearing nostalgia people feel for them is little different from any other form of ancestor worship. Not that there's anything wrong with remembering them for the good they did, but thinking that the founding fathers were better people than the politicians of today is profoundly misguided and only makes it that much harder to get the best out of the people we have now.
It was really good. You should listen to Timmy or do what I do. I just turn HBO on and off whenever something I want to see is on. And I don't mean just a movie, I mean like a mini series such as John Adams, or Entourage, or The Sopranos when it was on. Always ask for the promotional deal and see what you can get then just kill it when the deal runs out.
You have no taste. It's a fascinating insight into the history of the formation of the United States and our Founding Fathers; Jefferson's aloof and eccentric, Hamilton's a schemer, Adams is a dick. It's wonderfully acted too, all the principals sell their roles. I really wish there were more series like these, Americans are so ignorant of their own history, especially the 19th Century.
It is because of the quality of work they put into it as well as the content of the story. The biography that was written on Adams is a great biography. The information contained it is based directly off of letters and correspondence between Adams and his wife. So in many respects the events in the biography are from the point of view of people who were there and living through those times. Not from the perspective of some historian looking at things a century later.
Could be. Wanted to like it. Loved HBO's Rome series (season 1 anyway). This is stifling. And I like Paul Giamatti. I hate all the characters in this teleplay. I want them all to die.
