John Adams (HBO mini-series)

[Heucrazy]

I've watched all 4 and I must say that I like them a lot. It helps that Paul Giamatti is one of my favorite actors though.

 

[D-Dogg]

Watched the third episode now...the France one. That was great that they nailed down Ben Franklin in that one. I really need to read the book this was based on. I had it but never ripped it.

PG is such a damn good JA..

Looking forward to these next episodes. I'm guessing the constitutional congress, the VP and the White House? Will they take it through John Q's presidency?

 

[arthurracoon]

Just watched the first 2 episodes

awesome

 

[D-Dogg]

This has just been an ASTOUNDING series. I love it.


The scene between Adams and King George earlier in the series was incredibly well done, then I saw this on the HBO forums by some poster there and I thought it was hilarious. Post-JA/KG meeting being rehashed by the courtier that was in the room with friends around the "watercooler."

Perhaps more interesting to imagine would be what the courtier(s) in the room discussed with their peers around the proverbial 'water cooler' later that day...

"You mean His Maj actually met with John Adams? OMG, were you not, like, totally freaking the whole time?"

"Omigod, don't even get me started about it! First of all, this guy walks into the room and just stands there like a *******, staring at King, and you know how King just LOVES that! Then--OMG, seriously--I don't know where he learned how to kowtow but he looked like he was trying to take a dump or something everytime he bowed. It was just wrong!"

"Omigod, did he, like, fall down or something?"

"No, but he just looked SOOOOO totally pathetic. And, of course, King is just standing there, leaning against his throne--by the way could he, like, HAVE a bigger throne--anyway, he's just standing there, GLARING at him like he wanted to just strangle him the whole time."

"Get OUT. He probably did want to strangle him. He will SOOOO never get over the whole America thing."

"Right? I know. So anyway, Adams finally starts making his speech, and King just keeps glaring at him and I totally thought he was going to blow a gasket when Adams said 'The United States of America'."

"Oh, did he give him 'the look'?"

"OMG, you know 'the look'?"

"Oh, come on, Mary; we've all gotten 'the look' before."

"Oh, wow; that's, like, hysterical that everybody calls it 'the look'; I thought I was the only one. So anyway, Adams goes on about blah, blah, blah, America, friendship, blah, blah, blah and then King sits on his ginormous throne and does his own blah, blah, blah; then he makes some nasty remark about the French..."

"OMG, him with the French, I swear! What is that man's damage?"

"I know, right? I mean, maybe if he spent a week in Paris he wouldn't have such a bug up his rear about them, y'know? So, anyways, after all the blah-biddy-blah, Adams walks out, doing his whole 'turkey-taking-a-dump' thing that's supposed to be a reverence..."

"LOL; that cracks me up; I wish I could have seen it."

"Oh, it was tragic. Tragic. I was seriously embarassed for him just watching it. Americans."

"I know, like, what's up with them?"

"Who knows? Anyways, while turkey dump is dumping his way out of the room, King says...LOL...this kills me...King says to him, "So I pray your country doesn't suffer TOO much for the want of a monarchy!"

"OMG, are you for real?"

"I am totally serious!"

"So what did the Yank say?"

Oh, classic...he's all like, "Um...yeah, we'll do our best to answer your prayer!"

"He did NOT say that!"

"No, no; he totally did!"

"King must have FREAKED!"

"No, he just nodded his head; you know how he does that when he's trying not to look like someone just got the better of him."

"Wow. Wow. That's all I have to say. Darn it, Mary, you always get to work on the good days. I would have died, though; seriously. I would SOOO not have been able to contain myself."

"And you would have gotten 'the look'."

"Oh, please. Wouldn't be the first time."

"Well, I'm outta here; I think I'll go to Paris and shop."

"Yeah, let's. We can invite King to come!"

"Puh-leeze, Mary!"

 

[82CardsGrad]

This has just been an ASTOUNDING series. I love it.


The scene between Adams and King George earlier in the series was incredibly well done, then I saw this on the HBO forums by some poster there and I thought it was hilarious. Post-JA/KG meeting being rehashed by the courtier that was in the room with friends around the "watercooler."

That is hysterical Donald! And so spot-on!! Adams did look SO awkward!!!!

Great Stuff!

 

[D-Dogg]

BTW, Giamatti needs to win an Emmy for this.

As does Stephen Dillane..he simply IS everything I've ever read about Jefferson. Morse IS Washington. The casting and acting has been superb.

 

[D-Dogg]

That is hysterical Donald! And so spot-on!! Adams did look SO awkward!!!!

Great Stuff!

That scene was so awkward, but man...can you even start to imagine all the emotion in that room at that moment in time? It had to be palpable...what, in our day and age, could compare in a meeting?

 

[82CardsGrad]

BTW, Giamatti needs to win an Emmy for this.

As does Stephen Dillane..he simply IS everything I've ever read about Jefferson. Morse IS Washington. The casting and acting has been superb.

Totall agree...

 

[82CardsGrad]

That scene was so awkward, but man...can you even start to imagine all the emotion in that room at that moment in time? It had to be palpable...what, in our day and age, could compare in a meeting?

There really isn't anything today that could ever compare... There are no real monarchy's left of the size of Britain and as universally powerful as Britain was then...

And no... I can't begin to imagine what it must have felt like... for a liason from the radical, pain in the ass U.S.A. to meet the King under those conditions... breathtaking really...

 

[arthurracoon]

I watched the first 3 episodes online, but Im gonna wait for the rest on the DVD.

 

[O]

This Mini-Series is going to win a lot of Emmy's.
Well done, very well done, indeed!

Spoiler

The breast cancer scene was hard to watch.

 

[Renz]

This Mini-Series is going to win a lot of Emmy's.
Well done, very well done, indeed!

Spoiler

The breast cancer scene was hard to watch.

I left the room until it was over.

 

[82CardsGrad]

Completely captivating... Loving every minute of it...

 

[arthurracoon]

Just finished the 2nd DVD (5th episode)

Cant wait to see the last few episodes!

 

[arthurracoon]

Just finished the mini-series tonight.



One of the more worthwhile things I have ever seen on the television.

 

[O]

 

[Stout]

Eh. This was very well acted and directed, but I found the script extremely wanting. I liked the first few episodes, but the writer just ended up making his life and the storyline fly by and focused almost exclusively on his marital problems. I was interested for a little while, but when it was a predominant theme for more than an episode, I quickly downgraded my opnion of this set. Interesting to see, but nowhere near the quality of a Rome or Deadwood. Not even close.

 

[Bada0Bing]

I still have one more episode left. This is a great show. I would definitely be interested in watching more of these mini-series on historical figures.

 

[D-Dogg]

I've been sitting on the series finale for a few weeks now. I don't want it to end...I've really enjoyed this series.

 

[Stout]

The series could have been so much more, I think. It was still far better than most TV, but was also far more lacking than other classic HBO history shows.

 

[Bada0Bing]

Finally finished this off. Great, great TV.

I didn't know that Adams and Jefferson died on the same day, how weird.

 

[D-Dogg]

Still haven't watched the finale. It's on my DVR but I don't want it to end.

Yeah, and they died on the 4th of July, ffs!!!

 

[Town Drunk]

My wife and I just finished this. What a great, great series. A type of show that sticks with you for a couple of days. HBO does such a great job with these mini-series. The acting was fantastic, and I love how they portrayed the relationship between Adams and his wife.

What a remarkable show. Really inspires you to do something with your life.