I like this mini-series, I really do, but I find it extremely hard to get through an episode. It is unfortunately exceptionally slow paced, for example rather than enjoying to minutia of John Adams life I recognize things like Paul Giamatti continuous choice to suck his lips into his mouth in order to achieve his faux Bostonian accent. If his insists on doing this any more I think I might have to stop watching.
It is ironic that I feel the show is so slow moving, because it covers the history of Adams’ life in huge expansive chapters. In this one episode we find John in Holland, France, England, Boston, and Philadelphia. Just traveling between these places at this period in history would take years and it seems cheap to move us along so rapidly. It is too much history per episode and it gives the viewer the impression that Adams spent his entire life doing extremely important things or wishing he was doing extremely important things.
That being said I did like this episode a bit more than the last one. At least by the end of it Adams is back in Philadelphia and can get back to affecting the creation of this new nation. I think I was bored with these episodes because Adams was so obviously bored with his life at this point. So here is to hoping Adams begins to enjoy his life from this point on.
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