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About John Adams
John Adams premiered March 16, 2008 on HBO as seven episodes from Kirk Ellis, directed by Tom Hooper, adapting the 2001 David McCullough biography. Paul Giamatti plays John Adams, Laura Linney plays Abigail Adams, with David Morse as Washington, Stephen Dillane as Jefferson and Tom Wilkinson as Franklin. It opens with Join or Die and Boston Massacre defense in 1770 Massachusetts.
Middle hours cover Congress vote, Paris treaty work, Dutch loans, London post, vice presidency and a single presidential term through Alien and Sedition Acts. The finale Peacefield covers retirement and July 4, 1826 deaths. Watch episodes 1 through 7 in order through the April 20, 2008 finale, since release order follows his life and each post explains later rivalries.
Good to know
Watch episodes 1 through 7 straight, since titles carry dates and offices and skipping breaks who serves when. The biography adds letters between John and Abigail that the series condenses but keeps as voiceover. Treat the seven as one finished miniseries with no second season, with large scale location work in Virginia and Hungary standing in for colonial Boston, Paris and London.
