So far, I kind of like 'John Adams' the HBO mini series. But I have one problem with it. No, it's not Paul Giamatti. He wouldn't have been my first choice for the role, but his performance is growing on me. It isn't the liberties HBO has taken the historic facts (apprarently, Cannons of Ticonderoga, were not actually dragged passed John and Abigaile's front door in Braintree).
No, sadly, my problem with 'John Adams' is that it is not 'The Wire'. For the past two Sundays, part of me has enjoyed John Adams, but part of me still can't experience it as anything more than a painful, weekly reminder that the founding fathers didn't actually include Avon Barksdale, Stringer Bell, or Proposition Joe.
Common HBO...hook a brother up. The cold turkey withdrawal is killing me. You're already taking some artistic license with the facts in John Adams. Omar can appear anywhere. Would it be so bad to have him emerge from the shadows of some colonial Baltimore corner to drop some Red Coat general? Couldn't the Dutch have refused to lend us the money because they were appalled at the open drug trade in their former colony of New Hampsterdam?
I know...it ain't gonna happen. Sigh.
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