DVD. This very good historical drama is excellent at relating Adam’s virtues (his devotion to the American cause) and flaws (his arrogance, his sense of superiority and his lack of understanding of others). Paul Giomatti is excellent as Adams, Laura Linney is fine as a very real Abigail, and an excellent supporting cast fleshes this story of early American independence out. About a 10-hour, 7 episode HBO feature. If I have a complaint, it has to do with the vision of a crabby, irascible Adams who is almost entirely principled. Not that he’s portrayed as a paragon. Indeed, he’s a moralistic prig; but he’s relentlessly principled compared to his once and future friend Jefferson. Vastly more emotional, Adams is physically flawed and so much more vulnerable than Jefferson. Worth watching. Slavery rears its ugly head regularly with Abigail the spokesperson for emancipation and women’s rights. Fascinating domestic vision of a president walking the streets with the vice president and a former president building a house and working in the fields. Who other than Jimmy Carter?. . I’d love to get his take on this. Also interesting on Adams’ son Charles who dies of alcoholism, his daughter who dies of cancer after having one breast removed, and Adams’ self-righteous coldness and virtual cruelty to Charles and the daughter’s ‘failed’ husband, his own secretary.