[PJ-Comix]

I am almost expecting the weird haired dude from "Ancient Aliens" to make a cameo appearance in this series.

[FreedomGuru]

I’m surprised they didn’t get Chumlee from Pawn Stars to play Sam Adams, whoa dude I get to drink beer all day, cool.

[onedoug]

I usually read my history.

[Mercat]

Mr. Mercat was watching it last night while I was doing an eye treatment so I didn’t watch, only listened. Horrible accents. I could tell that the ages were wrong. So after treatment I left.

[mcshot]

I like Georgio Tsoukalos He is a very intelligent man who had devoted his life to the study of “Ancient Aliens”.

[Happy1947]

Even if it is a farce it is better than watching Pawn Star reruns for 6-8 hours in a row. I can’t remember when I actually saw something on History Channel that was actually historical. Even reruns of World War II shows would be more entertaining.

[Alas Babylon!]

This trash was written like the Bostonians were all poor people suffering from the 1% A La the Occupy Wall Street movement led by Sam Adams and Dr. Joseph Warren. Sam Adams father's description was identical to George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life.

Rubbish.

I guess Dr. Warren must by Fauxahauntus’s non-Indian side of the family!

[LS]

This is why it is critically important we produce “Patriot’s History” the video version. A couple of Freepers have already joined this project, as has Nick Searcy from “Justified.” Take a look at the trailer and see if it interests you: www.rockinthewallstudios.com under Projects: In Development.

[x]

A lot changed with The Men Who Built America, the series about the captains of industry (Carnegie, Morgan, Rockefeller, and Ford). They couldn't establish exactly what Carnegie might have said to Morgan or Rockefeller or Frick or Schwab so they winged it and decided to be inaccurate or fuzzy about details.

The World Wars followed a similar procedure, even though there's more documentation about what happened. Also, the focus on a few selected figures (Churchill, Hitler, Roosevelt, Stalin, Patton, etc.) had a tendency to distort what happened.

It's sort of like what happened with the BBC. When you've filmed and televised every English novel at least once, and often two or three times, you can't just do a straight remake. You have to -- or they felt they had to -- tinker with things to come up with something that looks new -- and "new" isn't always better.

So once the History Channel and PBS make enough documentaries that rigorously keep the "docu" separate from the "drama" somebody decides to mix up "docu" and "drama" in hopes of coming with something fresh (or at least cheap and easy).

[minnesota_bound]

Sam Adams as legends goes got the British drunk during the war thereby winning the war for our side.

[LongWayHome]

Good awful tripe. Within the first 20 minutes I knew this was not well done as history or entertainment. Turn, on AMC, at least is entertaining.

[STJPII]

I initially enjoyed the show. The commercials during the second hour, every five minutes, caused me to turn it off

[X Fretensis]

took of ax-men for Sons of Liberty. Bummer.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Not having read the rest of this thread...but having just watched a DVR'ed first episode...I was appalled.

I noticed a great many obvious boo boo's. The language was unbelievably 20th century English. My G-d, Paul Revere actually said "Lobstahs" rather than "Lobsters". There was a discussion of a 'boycott'. The word was born in 1880, from the name of Captain Charles Boycott. Not 1765.

One of Hancock's smugglers was seen smoking a cigarette. Not a cigar, not a pipe but a cigarette. Not even first rolled and used in any way in popular culture until the 1800's.

There were so many more...Samuel Adam's was not the outrageously obvious rebel reactionary as depicted (in all his UNSHAVEN glory) in this biopic that was CLEARLY written for consumption for an 18-22 year old audience.

Anyone who has read of American history would be laughing his or her arse off at this joke of a series.

I was going to watch all episodes but halfway through the first, I deleted all recordings got onto watching Season 4 of 'Breaking Bad'.

[Vermont Lt]

Any show that depicts kicking the crap out of Brits is OK by me. It happened so rarely that its fun to watch.

Yes, it is inaccurate for even the most modest Boston history buff.

But its fun in a silly, Starship Troopers kind of way.

[Publius]

They got so much of it wrong, with respect to both history and language, that I spent three nights cringing at what the writers did.

Despite that, I could see that their hearts were in the right place, and they were attempting to make history relevant to the unlettered. It was a lot like the old comic book series "Classics Illustrated" from 50 years ago.