Do other shows like this exist?

In addition to the amazing theme, I loved that all the actors spoke with a historically accurate accent.

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Tudors is pure tits and ass empty escapism. The history is so bad it's painful.

This

smiling stannis was cute. He was also in The Crown.

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Source?

>How do we know what people sounded like in the 18th century? The accents in John Adams are so distinctive.

Catherine Charlton: We don't know exactly. It's almost forensic in some ways. For example, an English lord who arrived in the colonies made a comment about how clearly spoken the Americans were compared to the British. This is interesting because my conjecture is that when you are in the midst of people from diverse backgrounds, you have to be clear in the way you speak. Otherwise you are not understood. Also, when we're talking about the Boston area, the Puritans believed that if you did not speak clearly and loudly enough then God would not hear what you were saying while reading the Bible.There was a book and several videos made about 20 years ago called The Story of English, and they had recorded people in Tangier Island in Virginia. If you closed your eyes and you didn't know that you were listening to something out of America, you would think that these people just stepped off of a fishing boat in either Cornwall or Devon.

Accents today are influenced by people moving from one town or village to the other, or the television, etc. But in those times, for example, John Adams used to ride to the Congress in Philadelphia from Boston on horseback. That took a long time. There wouldn't be a huge and rapid change of dialect like there is now. Tom [Hooper, director of John Adams] also said, in fact, that it makes it all the more tragic because the changes in a hundred years from when the pilgrims landed in Virginia and Plymouth Rock would have been soft. So the difference between the English and the Americans, in the way they sounded, would not have been huge. It really is like family being betrayed by family.

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There aren't to many entertaining, well written, accurate historical shows

The closest to this is the first 15 minutes of the patriot

kino incoming:

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Not as good as John Adams obviously but I thought Turn was pretty good. Spy stuff instead of the political stuff of the Independence War.

Yea sadly no OP

Pre GOT HBO made some great stuff.

Like this and Rome.

>fairly honest
Very relatively speaking of course

Couple old ones, but by far Band of Brothers is the best out of all of them. So if you havent seen it, watch Band of Brothers, and then the Pacific.

Ken Burns Vietnam, while not a miniseries or mockumentary, its fucking GREAT. Hatfields & McCoys is good. Good casting, odd production/directing. From Earth to the Moon, with Tom Hanks is another good one.

It's a drama but my impression was it broadly captures the events of the revolution and after from John Adam's perspective.

Adams 1 was GOAT

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It does but it take a lot of artistic liberty, often warping other people to convey a certain tone for john adams, samuel adams probably being the worst offender

>After falling out in their cordial relationship, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson rekindled their friendship and bond, exchanging 158 letters over the course of 14 years.

>Jefferson, who was suffering from an intestinal disorder, fell into a coma on the evening of July 3, 1826. He lingered in semi-consciousness until just after noon on the next day. That same morning, Adams collapsed in his reading chair, lapsing into unconsciousness.

>Adams final words were "Thomas Jefferson survives" -- completely unaware that Jefferson had died a few hours earlier.

>Adams and Jefferson ultimately died within hours of each other on the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.

That's some synchronicity kino right there.

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Poor Sam doesn't get a fair shake at all.

Its ok, john was portrayed as a cuck, id rather be known as a bloodthirsty monster than a cuck

>that cast

Jesus Christ, all for one show, hot damn this is on my list now.

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he had a faithful relationship with his wife for 54 years, in what way is he a cuck?

Not a literal cuck obviously

That's how hes viewed by his enemies within and outside his party, but I dont think thats what they were going for at all. He was a Federalist, but refused to give in to the fanatical elements that dominated the party. That led him to not be able to accomplish much, hence his being relatively forgotten by history but it was important nonetheless. Washington set the precedent that power could be transferred without conflict over the succession, and Adams set the precedent that even rival parties that hated each other could do this.

Any White House that is ruled by indecision is preferable to the one who takes bold action and accrues power unto itself. Washington was a rare individual; a person who displayed extreme humility when he was poised to practically crown himself the benevolent ruler of a new nation. Presidents who are not secret monarchists at heart are few.

I was watching a documentary recently that said that brits back then spoke something closer to the american accent, and that the modern accents brits have grew out of trends and dialects that developed post us colonies.
thats why other colonies like australia show heavy british accent influence while earlier colonies like america and canada do not.

>>Adams and Jefferson ultimately died within hours of each other on the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
absolutely based

>HBO will never be this based again

Can we get an F in the chat boys?

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