We’re recapping the 2008 miniseries John Adams each week because the 18th-century costumes and American history are just that good! Catch up with previous episodes here.
I gotta be honest… Now that the show has moved into the late-1790s I’m less interested in the costumes. Doesn’t mean they’re not nice, it’s just the Regency era is one big “MEH” from me.
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Abigail’s dresses are very impressive.They give us the idea that she is a warm,caring person but her attires are gorgeous.Jefferson looks a bit too mellowed down,especially after the lavender beauty of the previous episodes.
Is “Adamses” a legit expression?I always fail to use the plural of a surname when it ends with an ‘s’ but ‘es’ sounds a bit weird.
Please. Yes it’s true that slaves were rented from their masters to build Washington DC. But it’s also true they worked alongside free black laborers, immigrant laborers and white stonemasons. In other words white people should be working on the White house alongside the black laborers, slave and free.
Why would Abigail be worried about free workmen? She is specifically noticing and responding to the moral atrocity of slavery, and the unmitigated hypocrisy of using them to build the capital.
There is the question of how she could tell free blacks from slaves. But what I meant was there should have been white people working on the site too.
Love the lighting, especially when Abigail and John are eating supper and Abigail is standing alone in the drawing room; it always worries me when non-royal households of that era are supposedly spending a fortune on good candles just to give us viewers a better look at the characters.
I see your point about accuracy but I do like to be able to see what I’m watching! 😀
I wonder if they chose colors intentionally to wash Nabby out and make her look more sickly? That lavender doesn’t suit her at all (but would look great on me, ha, ha).