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May 19, 2019
The best. I have been using Badia spices for years. Sometimes it's hard to find in the grocery store...and can be expensive.so bought online
Superior product. The freshest Badia Pepper I've ever used. When you remove the cap, the wonderful smell of pepper perfumes the air around you. It provides a gentle but definite heat of black pepper to everything. Badia always provides excellent spices....and this is a remarkable product.
Oct 28, 2008
John Adams
7 of 7 found this helpful If anyone missed this fabulous miniseries on HBO, I encourage you to buy it. This is certainly an example of what television could be if it had a brain and could think in ideas of more than 2 syllables.
There are many films and shows about the beginnings of our separation from Britain. Some are excellent, some only so-so, some downright awful and full of errors, some so badly worked over they are hardly recognizable. That is not the case with this piece of work.
Based on the book by David McCullough (who has a command of language and sense of history that is unmatched) this is not simply a story of our second President; but a real narrative of birth of the United States of America. The pain, mistrust, the divisions among the colonies, the doubts of those who set the fire and lit our way to Freedom.
Farmer John Adams, his beloved wife, friend and companion Abigail are brilliantly brought to life by Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney. They are depicted as human beings, subject to all the problems, arguments, differences of opinion and longing that we all feel. This love relationship suffered much. Adams' separation from wife and children led to disfunctional children and a relationship sometimes filled with doubt and sadness. Following Adams through his lifetime, his flaws appear regularly - and sometimes he is a most unlikeable fellow. But, his quest for freedom from Britain burns like a warm fire on a cold night..... The scene of his formal encounter with King George of England rates right up there with some of the best 15 minutes of film anywhere, anytime.
Benjamin Franklin is knocked off his pedestal. This man was truly a genius and the whole fight for Independence would have taken a different track were it not for him. He was, however, a raconteur who's love for and fascination with the ladies was astonishing.
Thomas Jefferson, Hamilton, General Washington (amazingly performed by David Morse) and all the characters involved in our Independence are in this wonderful film. Not all of them are likeable all the time.
Cinematography is unsurpassed. Sets, wardrobe, lighting - all take you there, on the spot, and makes you believe.