The only thing worse than “Sons of Liberty”, was this review. The show was a garbage strewn wreck of a cheesy hipsterian morality play, with visions not of liberty and freedom, but rather visions of aspiring to be counted as a worthy parallel to Pirates of the Caribbean. This doesn’t make me a “purist”. It merely makes me capable of seeing that making a show that panders to the lowest common denominator audience doesn’t elevate that audience, but rather debases the show, and whatever ideas may have inspired that show, to the gutter as well.
This wasn’t a platform which showcases the ideas that made this country great. It was a platform that showcased 5-day old beard growth, snappy meaningless dialogue, cartoonish villainry, and video-game action sequencing. Anyone who wasn’t appalled by this dreck should be ashamed of themselves.
I totally agree.
This show was a travesty. The ONLY thing familiar about it was the names of the participants. They managed to mash together events in a morass of out of place occurances, broken timelines and melodramatic nonsense.
“Sam Adams” was portrayed more as a Son of Anarchy, rather than a Son of Liberty.
I found it all confusing and in the end disgustingly cloying.
For those many who don’t know Sam Adams from a beer, I can only imagine the total misinformation they might have absorbed. I KNOW they said it wasn’t a documentary but dang!: they might well have had Paul Revere driving a red mustang on his ride and being chased by Sheriff Roscoe B. Coltrane.