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Re: The Adams Chronicles

Merav — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:47:56 -0000

I am so in interested in watching this movie. I hope I'll get this opportunity very soon.

Re: The Adams Chronicles

Lion — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:04:15 -0000

I wish I was there to watch this. I missed it & regrets a lot.

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Herpes symptoms — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:21:35 -0000

The Adams Chronicles is a good series. Its so interesting to see such type of movies.

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frettelop — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:48:27 -0000

I bookmarked this already dude great work

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Re: The Adams Chronicles

Stroke Treatment — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:43:23 -0000

There are some sayings of John Adams being a Free Mason.Don't know how true is that.

Re: The Adams Chronicles

BROOKE SHIELDS SUNGLASSES — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:44:58 -0000

Great post..The weirdness of the French was interesting for a bit, but the producers seem to have abandoned any attempt to capture the nuances of what Adams and Franklin were trying to accomplish. An admittedly difficult task, but I hoped for better, given the way the pre-war intrigue unfolded..

Re: The Adams Chronicles

Matt Petersen — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:14:20 -0000

Adams fans will be happy to know (if you don't already) that the 1976 PBS series, The Adams Chronicles, is now available on DVD from shoppbs.org, probably elsewhere, too. I remember taking great pains to avoid missing each episode back in '76 and am delighted that they finally made it available. It would be interesting to get David McCullough's thoughts on this earlier production.

Re: The Adams Chronicles

Tom Watson — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:50:57 -0000

Mark, we don't disagree - I'm enjoying some of Giamatti's performance ... I loved the continental congress portion - that should have been three episodes!

Washington - yeah, a travesty.

I really like some of the longshots - the landscape or the CGI rereation of Boston Harbor with the British fleet - it's well-done.

Re: The Adams Chronicles

Mark J. McPherson — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:00:54 -0000

I've enjoyed the series so far, particularly the first two which I found enormously moving with that good old American stuff. I don't think the producers have been too heavy-handed on the more gruesome aspects of Colonial life. I agree that the hacksawing aboard ship was gratuitous and derivative and out of place. Episodes 3 and 4 might be expected to be problematic, as they dealt with the period of Adams' mixed record at diplomacy. The wierdness of the French was interesting for a bit, but the producers seem to have abandoned any attempt to capture the nuances of what Adams and Franklin were trying to accomplish. An admittedly difficult task, but I hoped for better, given the way the pre-war intrigue unfolded. I am nonetheless enjoying the show very much, and have hopes it will rally over the final episodes. I think Giamatti has been better than reviewed. Part of the casting and part of his performance is he was always "against type" when in the company of such men as Washington, Franklin and Jefferson, but had surprising strength, vision and courage. Giamatti does this, even if he doesn't meet everyone's expectations of a Boston-accented Founding Father. The one strange directorial decision has been to turn a fascinatign character and a fine actor into a Disney Animatronic version of George Washington.

Re: The Adams Chronicles

Lance Mannion — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:55:08 -0000

I wish I could be watching this. But based your post and other things I've read I wish more that I could be watching The Adams Chronicles. Sounds as though Grizzard was a better Adams and the writers understood his story as a drama while this series pushes it as a high school history lesson.