Posted on 01/25/2015 9:04:43 AM PST by Mozilla
The upcoming six-part miniseries, Sons of Liberty, follows a defiant and radical group of young men – Sam Adams (Ben Barnes), John Adams (Henry Thomas), Paul Revere (Michael Raymond-James), John Hancock (Rafe Spall) and Joseph Warren (Ryan Eggold) – as they band together in secrecy to change the course of history and make America a nation.Calling themselves the Sons of Liberty, they light the spark that ignited a revolution. Though their names have become American legend, this group of young rebels didn’t start off as noble patriots in powdered wigs. They were a new American generation of young men from varied backgrounds, struggling to find purpose in their lives. They were looking for equality, but they found something greater: Independence.
Sons of Liberty premieres its three night event on January 25th at 9pm on History Channel.
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Ben liked the ladies and had at least one openly acknowledged bastard son.
It was not unusual in those times.
I’d say maybe 15-20% of period work is tolerable
Actually some BBC and PBS stuff is ok....contrary to conventional wisdom
Less agenda driven
The White Queen was good.... fair.,... Starz believe it or not
Monarchy..... A BBC miniseries great
PBS Revolution was good
But many are simply wretched
Gratuitous minority insertions which don’t fit
It’s the age and its a pity
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I like the sets, the crowds, the sootiness, the squalor, accurate. Hope John and Abigail are fully characterized, their story is amazing.
Ted & Heidi Cruz remind me of them.
I like John Hancock’s easygoing cluelessness.
It seems Hancock just bought a vowel.
And I’m enjoying all the Sam Adams commercials.
Looks like they were smuggling booze. Just like the kennedys.
I finished watching the miniseries: John Addams. It was gripping, and stayed very true to the biography. The teaser turned my stomach for this show.
Chris hit! No...
Not good.
Another unarmed black man shot dead.
Wikipedia: The word boycott entered the English language during the Irish "Land War" and is eponymously derived from the name of Captain Charles Boycott, the land agent of an absentee landlord, Lord Erne, who lived in Lough Mask House, near Ballinrobe in County Mayo, Ireland, who was subject to social ostracism organized by the Irish Land League in 1880.
Bingo! Doesn’t surprise me. Either the writers are ignorant, they don’t have a good historical consultant, or they are trying to make the dialog relevant to the 21st century. Or maybe all three.
Sam Adams was a Ninja!
I know there was some riots. Wasn’t a judge even pulled out of his home and tarred & feathered at one point? Can’t remember the exact details.
However I felt like I was watching a version of “Occupy Wall Street” instead of the beginnings of the American Revolution. It seems like they are trying to push the class warfare rich against poor thing and skipping over the meat of the cause of the Revolution.
Tudors was good once it got past the gratuitous homosexual plot bends
Rome was good because of Pullo and Anthony
And the naked women...lol
Turn turned weird and I quit it
‘quaffing’ beer and ale was a lot safer than drinking Boston’s water at that time! :)
Seriously
The Mayflower Pilgrims brought their own stills with them - for beer and ‘aqua vitea’ because the water was so polluted in the old world, they didn’t drink water.
Their first face to face encounter with a Native was one warm spring day - when Samoset (a Sachem from (now) Maine) strode into the village. A tall straight man with long black hair down his back, he startled the Pilgrims when he raised his hand and said:”Welcome, Englishmen!” and THEN asked for a beer. He had learned some English - and the like for beer - from fishermen who plied the coasts of Mohegan.
William Bradford, writing of the occasion, noted: “”He asked for some beer, but we gave him strong water, and biscuit, and butter, and cheese, and pudding, and a piece of mallard; all which he liked well.”
The ‘strong water’ they also called aqua vitea...purported to be gin. There friendship with Massasoit was to last their lifetimes.
Yup. His name was Crispus Attucks.
Half black, half Indian. Worked on the docks in Boston. Some sources say he was a freeman. Others say he was a slave who escaped many years earlier.
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