{"id":273,"date":"2008-07-04T08:20:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T13:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=273"},"modified":"2023-11-14T22:58:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T04:58:51","slug":"john-adams-miniserieshappy-fourth-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/john-adams-miniserieshappy-fourth-of-july\/","title":{"rendered":"John Adams Miniseries : Happy Fourth of July!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"John<\/a> I feel particularly patriotic this Fourth of July! We just finished the last episode of the HBO miniseries entitled John Adams<\/a>…. and \u00a1\u00a1\u00a1WOW!!!<\/p>\n

Let me first mention that we don’t subscribe to HBO… And, that we have tried some other HBO miniseries\/episodic shows, and that some of them are just a tad out of my particular comfort zone. Yes… It’s true… I get a little uncomfortable with gratuitous sex and violence. Call me a “square” or “old-fashioned” but those are just the facts, ma’am.<\/p>\n

A very good friend of mine told me about the miniseries… and since Cora is a cozy-mystery reader… I knew that she would not be recommending something that was going to be … let’s just say… adult-situation-graphic! (Don’t I sound like a prude!?!)<\/p>\n

My husband had already read “<\/em>John Adams<\/a>,” David McCullough’s bestselling novel, and had really enjoyed it. And, since this miniseries is based on McCullough’s novel… which is presumably accurate, we knew that the miniseries would not take some of the “liberties” that a lot of other miniseries take… tweaking more “juicy tidbits” into the plots so that they are more readily appreciated by the masses. Of course, my husband did notice some changes that were\u00a0made in the miniseries for dramatic purposes, although they didn’t detract from the overall spirit of accuracy.<\/p>\n

The cast does a wonderful job portraying the characters who we all (in the USA) grew up learning and hearing about… Cast: Paul Giamatti (as John Adams) and Laura Linney (as his wife, Abigail) are superb in their parts. Tom Wilkinson (as Benjamin Franklin), Stephen Dillane (as Thomas Jefferson), David Morse (as George Wahington),\u00a0Sarah Polley\u00a0(as the Adams’ daughter), well… the list goes on!\u00a0We found the acting, the sets, the director’s view ALL exceptionally good.\u00a0(Of course, if you are\u00a0looking for a sanitized version…\u00a0where you don’t see and almost feel what it must have been like… where\u00a0you don’t see\u00a0how excruciating it was to be sick back\u00a0in those times… when blood-letting seemed to be a very common practice… where there\u00a0is a lack of buzzing flies, then this very realistic (and, again, to use an\u00a0adjective I use to show the superlative), phenomenal miniseries is not for you…<\/p>\n

HBO’s John Adams<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>miniseries did not disappoint! It truly is worth watching… And, it gives a true meaning of why we, in the USA celebrate the Fourth of July… We have these very heroic men, such as John Adams, to thank for the liberty we now know and enjoy!<\/p>\n

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I feel particularly patriotic this Fourth of July! We just finished the last episode of the HBO miniseries entitled John Adams…. and \u00a1\u00a1\u00a1WOW!!! Let me first mention that we don’t subscribe to HBO… And, that we have tried some other HBO miniseries\/episodic shows, and that some of them are just a tad out of my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,16,18,19,24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cozy-mystery-administrators-observations","7":"category-dvds","8":"category-movies","9":"category-moviestv-shows","10":"category-tv","11":"entry","12":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-4p","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41716,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/41716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}