Has anyone seen "John Adams" on HBO?

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T_Bone0806 · #1 Post by **T_Bone0806** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:22 am

First two installments were on this past Sunday night. Paul Giamatti as the title fella, Laura Linney as Abigail, and Tom Wilkinson as Ben Franklin.

Most excellent. I am learning things I didn't know that I didn't know. Far from dry and academic, it is engrossing and entertaing and I can't wait until this Sunday's part 3.

Well, ok, I can wait a little as I don't want my vacation to go by THAT quickly..

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #2 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:25 am

We have it on Tivo, but haven't watched yet.

Giamatti and Linney played husband and wife before, in the movie, "The Nanny Diaries."

reeg2223 · #3 Post by **reeg2223** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:31 am

I really enjoyed the first 2 episodes--David Morse really looks like Washington, doesn't he?
A fun variation of the second episode would be the movie musical of 1776, which has many of the same facts along with a singing Blythe Danner!

MarleysGh0st · #4 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:32 am

I saw some of it, Sunday night, while playing a game of Civ 3. Very well done!

We tend to think of tar-and-feathering as one of those "quaint" punishments they did back in the old days, like putting someone in a stockade. The scene they included showed how brutal that actually was.

earendel · #5 Post by **earendel** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:35 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:I saw some of it, Sunday night, while playing a game of Civ 3. Very well done!

We tend to think of tar-and-feathering as one of those "quaint" punishments they did back in the old days, like putting someone in a stockade. The scene they included showed how brutal that actually was.

I've got it on the DVR and will try to catch up with it, though next week looks like the earliest possible time.

MarleysGh0st · #6 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:35 am

reeg2223 wrote: A fun variation of the second episode would be the movie musical of 1776, which has many of the same facts along with a singing Blythe Danner!

That had to be a real challenge for the producers, presenting the same scenes without making it look like 1776 without the singing!

T_Bone0806 · #7 Post by **T_Bone0806** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:43 am

reeg2223 wrote:I really enjoyed the first 2 episodes--David Morse really looks like Washington, doesn't he?
A fun variation of the second episode would be the movie musical of 1776, which has many of the same facts along with a singing Blythe Danner!

I dust off my dvd of that every 4th of July, although it is a (somewhat) bitter reminder not to give up on something. I tried out for the role of
Ben Franklin in a local summer theatre production a number of years ago. The first night of auditions I didn't read much for the part, so I thought that it was going to go to an older, more experienced auditioner. Normally I would've attended day 2 and taken another part, but I had already made up my mind that if I wasn't going to get Franklin, I was going to go with Plan B and play in a little pickup rock band before college started up again.

As it turns out, the director (whose son was/is one of my best friends) was making sure that the other guy was NOT what he wanted for Franklin. The second night he asked my friend several times where I was and if I was coming. The other guy got the part, but my friend told me that the part would've been mine if I had shown up.

So I learned a lesson that day, and I remember it every time I watch "1776" and think to myself in a moment of big-headedness "I SO would've rocked that part".

T_Bone0806 · #8 Post by **T_Bone0806** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:48 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:I saw some of it, Sunday night, while playing a game of Civ 3. Very well done!

We tend to think of tar-and-feathering as one of those "quaint" punishments they did back in the old days, like putting someone in a stockade. The scene they included showed how brutal that actually was.

That was a very powerful scene indeed.

Bob Juch · #9 Post by **Bob Juch** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:53 am

No, because my own cable won't be installed for another hour or two.

I've been using a split from the homeowner who doesn't have any premium channels. I hope they'll have reruns sometime before Sunday.

MarleysGh0st · #10 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:20 am

Bob Juch wrote:I've been using a split from the homeowner who doesn't have any premium channels.

Taking in boarders, making do with a one-car garage, and not having any premium cable channels? I guess the recession really is impacting the well-to-do!

Bob Juch wrote:I hope they'll have reruns sometime before Sunday.

These episodes are supposed to be available any time now on HBO-on-demand.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #11 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:36 am

Bob Juch wrote:No, because my own cable won't be installed for another hour or two. I've been using a split from the homeowner who doesn't have any premium channels. I hope they'll have reruns sometime before Sunday.

There are two episodes that have aired so far and both have quite a few more airings before Sunday.