I stumbled across this on HBO yesterday. They were having some sort of marathon. I'm guessing it is a series. It was decent and interesting. I watched about three of them before I needed to get my rump up from the couch and do something else.

Has anyone else caught this? It showed an interesting side of John Adams and I'm not sure as to the historical accuracy but still interesting.

I've heard good things about it as well. I'll wait to netflix it though...

I have them all TiVo'd So Far. I like the series alot. I plan on burning em to DVD for future use. So far I believe that there has been 5 or 6 episodes released and considering how far they are along not many left. I keep checking TiVo to see if more are released.

7 part mini series :)

I caught all of them I believe, and I thought they were very well done. OF course, I will admit to not knowing a whole lot about him so there may be some historical errors in the show, but overall, I thought it was great and definitely worth watching.

Great show, well done. And I am not 100% about how everything went down back then but it still was a good history lesson. The amazing thing was how many times they would jump on a fricken wooden ship and cruz back to Europe. John Adams was married for 54 years, thats the other amazing point..even though he was away from his wife at many years inbetween.

I stumbled onto the series without having heard anything about it as well and definitely enjoyed it, particularly the first couple of episodes. Supposedly it was based on a book someone wrote about Adams' life so that may be worth checking out, too.

Kaisyth. Sup NECROmonger :D

Also to half-assed contribute to the conversation the US Post Office had been advertising this mini series hardcore for like the last two months. I have no idea why. You could not walk into a post office without seeing at least ten wall posters advertising this show.

Kind of steered me away from watching it :(

This series is about as historically accurate as you can get. The author of the book this was based on was a major historian. I actually read it for a us government final paper, and half of it was exerpts from writings between the adams and historical documents about the adams (the Adams' wrote each other all the time, and abigail corresponded with just about everyone important in the american revolution).

I'd say this story is the best way to get a feel for what it was like to live through that time period... (man, Adams was such an Ass, in the "you're just too stupid to understand why I'M right" kind of way).

Why hello there Oip!

I'm glad to hear the series is accurate, I thought one of the most enjoyable aspects of it was the feeling you were getting a glimpse into how everything played out during that period and what life was like, etc. It was a nice change of pace from the usual tv dramas, in any case.

One of the things that was in the book that didn't make the series was the dramatic entrance of the final delagate to sign one of the documents (i can't remember if it was the declaration or the constitution), literally a minute or two until the deadline, coming through the doors with a thunderstorm in the backdrop.

It was a dramatic scene remarked on in the correspondence the historian used. Probably the constitution... which adams wasn't at, which is why it probably got cut. (my memory is a sieve)

I am currently Netflix'ing this series. I watched the first two parts so far, and I LOVE it. Awesome cinematography, great music, very detailed and gripping storyline, based on a historical book... great work all around.

Hey Kaisyth /bonk

I'd love to watch this. Had no idea about it before this thread. I've done some work on the 'Quasi-War Crisis', and as such quite a bit of research on Adams during my undergraduate degree. Will download it as soon as I find a good link.

Thanks for the tip!

The series is for sale on DVD now in some stores

It was excellent, but then again I'm a history nerd.