Have you guys been watching HBO’s John Adams? I had a feeling it would be kinda cheesy, but I’ve been really impressed with it so far. That is, the first two episodes. The last two have been okay, but being a biopic of John Adams makes it, by necessity, a little boring in parts. It seems like both episodes had a moment in which he gets a letter like this :

Dear John,

Totally awesome stuff is happening off-camera here in America. Like the fighting of the Revolutionary War and the Constitutional Convention. Don’t worry about us, just hang out in Europe for another episode and try to forget you have children.

Yours,
HBO

In the next episode he’s VP and they’ve already started laying the groundwork for his rivalry with Thomas Jefferson, so it should start getting exciting again soon. If not, maybe they can find a reason to write him into the Hamilton/Burr duel or something.