My husband came back from Wal-Mart with this series and we've watched 2 episodes. It is pretty good so far. John Adams looks old and fat, and George Washington looks old and fat too. Most of the congressmen look like they are deathly ill and the American people in the film look extremely rough, but I got over it after awhile because the story is really great. It is based on the book, John Adams by David McCullough who also wrote 1776. I think it does a great job of portraying what it was like to live at that time and the real decisions these people faced.
The first episode shows the Boston Massacre and how John Adams defended the British in that skirmish even though it was unpopular to do so, and it introduces his relationship with his kids and wife, Abigail. The second episode shows him riding through the forest after the first battle at Lexington and Concord and how he joined the Continental Congress and worked to get them to support a continental army and later for independence. It is very sobering when the congress tries to put out an olive branch for the king and are answered with the threat of death if they continue their treason. It is also sobering at the end when they ratify the Declaration of Independence; no one cheers. One of the delegates didn't show up to vote because he felt it was not the right thing to do and did not want to vote for it in good conscience, but didn't want to keep the others from what they deemed to be their duty. It was so good!!
This is the stuff that makes history come alive and makes me want to check and see how accurate it really is.
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