Anyone going to watch the John Adams Mini-series premiere on HBO tonight?

[bicentennial_baby]

We are! :)

:hi:

[azmouse]

1. I'm planning on it.

I read the book. It was good. Interesting man and I love history.

[mondo joe]

2. I'm recording it to watch at leisure - esp since there are TWO episodes tonight.

But looking forward to it!

[bicentennial_baby]

4. D'oh! I forgot about that!

:o

Do you know how long it will run tonight? :)

[mondo joe]

6. Part 1: 1 hour; Part 2: 1 and 1/2 hour.

[AlCzervik]

3. yup, i also bought the book last night to read on the plane.

really looking forward to watching it.

[bicentennial_baby]

5. Yay!!

I'm super excited...Esp. since some of it will take place near the Qz :D

[AlCzervik]

7. did you read 1776? If not that gets a giant thumbs up, a fantastic book and since

you live there you can totally picture everything which is pretty damn cool.

[bicentennial_baby]

8. My Mom bought it for Sniffa, actually!

We haven't read it yet though...Hopefully this will inspire me to! :)

[KitchenWitch]

9. We are too cheap to get HBO!

:rofl:

[KG]

10. sounds interesting, but Paul Gaimatti?

:shrug:

[democracyindanger]

11. The New Yorker didn't think it was a good idea

New York Times did.

Both liked it overall though.

[bicentennial_baby]

12. He's really quite good!

I'm loving it so far...

[CBHagman]

15. Tom Shales of The Washington Post gave him a thumbs-up.

Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times thought he was miscast.

But Giamatti's a brilliant actor, and as someone who doesn't have HBO, I'll plan to see this series some time or other.

And every critic I've checked with loves Laura Linney's performance as Abigail Adams.

On edit: Funniest thing is seeing bookstores filled with movie editions of the book. It's like what happened with Christy Brown's My Left Foot. You found a country or write a memoir, and who gets the credit? The guy who played on TV or in the movies.

[democracyindanger]

13. OK, was I the only one

who got a chill at the end of the second episode? Hell, I want to go out and vote right now.

[Inchworm]

14. werd!

:patriot:

[MonkeyFunk]

16. Yeah, I'm tivoing it

looks like two episodes are on tonight.

Should be great.

[WCGreen]

17. IT's wonderful....

The book is well written and should be read when ever you can...

[AlCzervik]

18. i think it's excellent, Paul Giamatti is wonderful and Laura Linney, just excellent

as always, yay Abigail Adams.

[Kool Kitty]

19. I loved it.

I'm looking forward to next week. The cast is excellent.

[ellisonz]

20. God Damn the King.

[LynneSin]

21. I don't have HBO but I get a free preview week March 20-25

and free preview week includes use of their On-Demand library. I'll watch it then. I do want to see it, I just don't want to pay all that extra money for HBO

[Midlodemocrat]

22. One of BoyMidlo's friends is an extra in it. It was filmed here.

But, we don't get HBO.

[Deep13]

23. Nope. No cable. nt

[mondo joe]

24. The tar over the head scene in ep 1 was shocking and moving.

Good series.