And I was expecting Adams to have his wife get into black leathers & whip him at the end to relieve the tension. 😂

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@Jay Slomine I guess you've never seen Billions.

No Big pair of tits on page 3 in those days.

😂😂😂✌

lmfao true

Same with Harry Potter's uncle (see POTC 4)

MVP comment!!

Jack Sparrow: *gulps*

Val Mid He was a different king

Is it more true now?

I doubt he said that, but it’s true.

Primus Pilus 14 he did say it, according to many sources.

I respectfully disagree. I would say that if a man (person) sic BELEIVES everything he reads....

"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do read it, you're misinformed." - Mark Twain

Rejoice evermore!

Finland didn't exist, it was Russia and Sweden at the time.

Awesome!

@@levvy3006 Finland doesn't exist even today!

@@jasonbaileystudent9088 am 51

Jess Kaii Adams was actually well known among the British public for defending the troops of the Boston massacre in court and hilariously he later ran into one of the captains he had defended in court during his time in Britain

Always loved the fact that Adams' meeting with King George III was officially recorded! So what you saw and heard in the HBO miniseries actually took place. As for Adams laughing at the opinion piece of his being hanged? I could believe the real Joun Adams would have reacted that way...😎🇵🇷🇺🇸🗽🦂

@@icecoldpolitics8890 wow that's cool. Captain Preston's wikipedia page mentions the chance meeting in London.

The king even called George Washington the greatest man of his age when he resigned as commander in chief... prior to the presidency.

The king was also mad so they had plenty of material to work with.

The spirit of The Sun and the Daily Mail

@@erincosta565 George the III did go through 3 bouts of insanity in his reign. But between them he made impressive recoveries and was a much beloved monarch. Modern science points to porphyria as a potential cause though arsenic may have been the result of his death in the third. Despite his insanity I find his will power in his times of clarity to set things right to be impressive and respectable. Most people would have ended themselves or fallen into depression.

Golden age of British Colonialism

@@abdulansari3666 I'd argue that came a few decades later, but sure

Benjamin Franklin looked disgusting--nipples protruding--in his blue petticoat before comte de Vergennes . Very very disrespectful.

Franklin with Twitter would have just destroyed him though.

When reputation mattered more as an internal source of esteem rather than an external source of threat(via twitter mob getting you unpersoned for example), I don't think this modern day hysteria machine could have been taken quite as seriously. Or at least, I hope it wouldn't have.

I want to write a movie in which the American Revolution takes place in a time with our modern technology.

@@RoseNoho good. Go on.

I LOVE her as Abigail Adams! She has such a great representation of her.

The whole cast was great! This is a great miniseries, I need to go and rewatch it, it's been a while.

Laura linney knows the assignment. Looked up how many oscars she's won. Zero. Scandalous

Yes, she was great. She is great in everything to be fair. This entire series was so well cast.

Abigail Adams was probably the smartest and most influential First Lady right up until the turn of the 20th century. It's a pity she was born in an era where women had very little public voice; if she had been born 150 years later she'd likely be more intimately involved in affairs of state and a more proactive influence on her husband's administration like Eleanor Roosevelt was. Nonetheless she provided a sage voice of wisdom and influenced John Adams' career and presidency (and by extent our young nation) for the better to the fullest extent that any woman could in those days.

Adams had deep respect for his wife so it makes sense.

I wouldn't be surprised if Adams instructed the Colonel to treat any order from Abigail as if it came from his own mouth.

Colonel knows who wears the pants at home.

@@relaxedsack1263 all the do actually

They were all like that with their wives.

"John Adams gives you cancer!"

thehorrorgeek1 I disagree. A free, independent press is integral to any functioning democracy. Even if the purveyors in question are no more than a gross pack of liars and calumners paid to assassinate the reputation of an honest public servant, one should pay them no more mind than the braying of an ass. The truth will always out.

The word vanity at the time meant more in the sense of "vanishing" or pointless.

He was annoyed because they were accusing him of the wrong type of vanity my interpretation is that he has spent his whole life as a civil servant trying to improve people's lives and is angry and confused that he doesn't get recognition for it owing to his crotchety and disagreeable temperament, and he doesn't realise that to be hard-working and to be charismatic are two different things

@thehorrorgeek1 fuck the press. They are just as bad as the politicians and the main drivers of our division

@@kelvyquayo Agreed, likewise too with the word’s continued use in the Book of Ecclesiastes.

@Peter T excellent point

John Adams was the kind of a man though, that he would do his job, and do it with a sense of duty, even if he had personal feelings to the contrary. He defended those British Soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre as previously mentioned in this thread. His legacy was very often overlooked. The book and this series have helped revers that.

Adams was fairly sympathetic to Britain in comparison to most of the other Founding Fathers, and he was one of the few men of high stature who had bona fide diplomatic credentials. He was no-nonsense and a committed patriot but also observed the finer points of diplomatic propriety and decorum. As a previous responder said, he was also committed to law and duty and was grudgingly respected by the British for his defense of the Boston Massacre soldiers despite holding deep personal reservations about their actions. He was the perfect man for the job - firm but fair. Someone like Hamilton who was downright enamored with Britain would have been a pushover and allowed King George to do whatever he pleased in negotiations, while a revolutionary bomb-thrower like Jefferson who openly cheered on the French guillotining Louis XVI (who was our vital ally!) would have been so toxic to affairs with Britain that he might have damn well started a second war. Maybe Adams didn't achieve a great deal as ambassador but he did the best he could with a nigh-impossible job and normalized relations at a time when the gaping wound between our nations was still wide open, let alone even a scar yet.

He and the king became close friends. He was even allowed access to the king's personal library, which was very rare.

@@bobsnow6242 This series and Paul Giamatti’s performance really opened my eyes to the inestimable contribution made by John Adams. This little guy who had the misfortune to follow Gen. Washington as President gets labeled a clanging gong and a failure, or at least a bore… but without John Adams, would we even have a country? He galvanized the Massachusetts delegation into declaring independence, and Massachusetts convinced the rest of the colonies. He drafted Jefferson to craft our Declaration. He finessed financing from the Dutch, without which the new nation would have gone under, and I don’t think there was another person among the founding fathers to whom the hard-nosed Dutch would’ve been willing to lend money. It’s a safe bet that Mr. Franklin or Mr. Jefferson would’ve been a disaster in The Hague. The choice of Mr. Adams to be the first Ambassador of the United States to the Court of St. James was also sound. King George had been quite keen to award Adams some high honor after the Boston Massacre trial and so was better disposed toward John despite the circumstances of their eventual meeting. Adams gets overshadowed by more charismatic figures of Revolutionary history but we owe him so much. He was an absolutely crucial factor in our success. RIP JA and David McCullough, who illuminated him for us.

Women have always ran the households lol my grandpa did whatever my grandmother told him whenever he was indoors, the home was her domain, except the garage lol

Love this comment. You can see his tearing eyes after he tells John Adams he wishes the USA won't regret the decision they made.

Really shows the difference in pov

the only "hurt" King George felt was losing the nearly infinite natural resources that would have been available in the colonies. the "new world" was intended to be the domain, playground, and as-near-to-heaven-on-earth-as-you-can-get for him and his domineering cohorts in the monarchy. any sincerity of concern was long gone, as his treatment of the colonists in the years leading up to the revolution clearly demonstrated. his portrayal in this scene, imho, is more accurately interpreted as similar to the character major fambrough in dances with wolves; a man who has basically lost touch with reality and cannot realize/admit that events have overtaken his control.

@@cloudwatcher724 That's a somewhat of an accurate statement. George III wasn't a skilled statesman nor did he excel in foreign affairs. However your statement of the 13 colonies being some sort of Heaven-on-earth replica is largely false. There were exotic resources like Cotton, Corn, Small game pelts, (Beaver was extremely popular) Cotton was the most important to the British Empire because they needed it for the production of Sail canvas.

@@MrSeekerOfPeace i was thinking mostly of land...

We are fortunate that they had movie cameras at the time so as to film exactly what Abigail said to John

You can always count on the camera man to be there and capture it all. No matter the condition

Finally, I have been expecting your arrival.

King or not. You have no right to arrest these two.

@@darkmagician2521 actually I believe I do. The warrant for the arrest of one John Adams.

TWO SCOOPS?! IMPEACH AND HANG ADAMS! - Lord Stephen Colbertsworth

Lol, comparing Trump to Adams is like comparing a turnip to a rocket ship, and Trump ain't no rocket ship.

GOD WHAT A COUNTRY. *CHARMING*

This was not the first time the British threatened to hang John Adams. You'd think he'd be used to it by now.

Christopher Metcalf we have yet to see if this is a conservative "dead cat bounce", or if it's in fact a reaction to the left's overbearing and unconstitutional policies. If it's a dead cat bounce, it will fizzle out quietly eventually. If it is a reaction to the left that sustains itself... The left is in for quite the reality check in regards to this country specifically.

Senna Soares why is there twitter in your link?

I know that this comment is six years old, but still. This comment is amazing.

Shit, they just starting sending people to Australia!

@@drunklord1795 Why not? I've seen it on many channels/profiles.

It is fortunate that they had movie cameras at the time to film exactly what Abigail said to John

A definite WTF did they write, half of this isn’t even close?! Face

They had one of the most healthy and mutual relationships, not just for the time, but into today. John respected her intellect, her ability, and always took her counsel. Never treated her as beneath him at least as far as the letters we have indicate. Must have been bizzare for some of the men at the time who knew him but they were one hell of a pair

:32 - :50 Trying so hard to not bow out of habit.

Underrated comment . Agreed

Yes, but let's not assume the only motive for deifying the founders and the new republic were simply to idealize or whitewash history. That would be naive. The founders knew that a shared mythology about the country was essential for maintaining civility and order.

Dutch Republic: "First time?" It all comes down to power. Thanks, king/emperor whoever. But now we are strong enough to look after ourselves. Come to think of that, we've been doing quite well for ourselves these past years. Yeah yeah yeah, thanks for fighting on our behalf but you have your empire to keep up while we merchants tend to look more at the bottom line. The bottom line says, we would be even more succesful without you! Only thing we gotta straighten out, is how to turn our mercantile power into actual military power and then it's adios amigos! We make our own money, protect ourselves and we'll be making lots more of money without you, Sir! Good Riddance.

Well propaganda was and is still part of nation-state building. They needed a story thats sells to people and that became history.

Bless your heart

Nor the American press.

America's is way worse, what you on about?? xD

Ironically that may be one of Spielberg’s more under-appreciated films.

As a witty comeback it would have gone down quite well in many parts of Britain. None of this “respect the troops” malarkey in the age of the press gang and the local regiment on the loot.

Hard to believe he went insane just a few years later.

That guys voice/manner of speaking is so original i knew it was him right away and I didn't even know the actors name. He's Moriarty from sherlock

Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas.

William Daniels already did.

Apparently, he was bipolar.

@@fds7476 Well, I dunno. His health problems started in his later life (appr. 1801).

@@fds7476 nope it was a genetic blood disorder that can be inherited. The King was congenitally sane and was actually quite intelligent. So much bad press for the King particularly in the United States. But then the Americans have always clutched at any excuse to explain their illegal declaration of independence.

Country matters!

It hasn't improved over the years.

GRABBED BY THE PUSSY WHAT WHAT

Does mainstream journalism today call for people to be hanged? You're just a Trump lover.

@@RoseNoho Yeah, it does, and worse.

I feel like today's media is calm compared to the one in this series

@@RoseNoho what a salty triggered reply. Just jumping to a conclusion and snapping. Someone's feelers are hurt. By the way, journalism is dead and the media is a circus

@Jormangandur83 there is always some asshole like you

@@t.c.thompson2359 and there's always some twat like you that has never picked up a history book in their life...

...by the French.

​@@ekni4245 Vietnam

You’d think those gun owners would have revolted over that, blood for the tree of liberty and all that.

😂😂

Charming

​@@dominushydra When we want to be, yes, but most of the time we're charmless miserable bastards. I think it's the weather, affects our mood.