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As we meet John Adams in this final installment of the series of the same name, he has retired from public life. He is now a farmer having given his best years to the service of the country he helped to create. He is living with Abigail, his daughter Nabby, and son Thomas. He has seen the election of his son John Quincy Adams to the presidency of the new nation. John Adams, with the help of Abigail, Nabby, Thomas and his granddaughter Sally Adams Smith, begins to collect his papers to work on his autobiography. It should have been a happy time for the Adams family, but tragedy intervenes when Nabby is diagnosed with breast cancer. She must be operated in what turns out to be a horrible procedure because of the primitive type of medicine of those years. She eventually succumbs to the disease as it spreads throughout her body.Abigail and John are left at the farm to mourn her passing. A few years later, his wife of almost a century dies peacefully at home, devastating the great John Adams. His long feud with Thomas Jefferson comes to an end when Adams reaches out to him to tell the other man about the tragedies in his life. Just as the new nation is about to celebrate its 50th anniversary, death comes claiming John's life. The closing part of this magnificent series leaves us saddened because of what this man achieved in his lifetime. His vision of a nation with its own magna carta about the rights of man, plus a Constitution that serves as a model for other nations, was a monumental accomplishment, indeed.The director Tom Hooper did a marvelous job in bringing the David McCullough's novel to life in such vivid detail. The adaptation by Kirk Ellis worked well throughout the seven installments. Tak Fujimoto, the cinematographer enhanced the production and made it accessible for the average viewer to appreciate the beauty of the places where the action took place.The success of the series owes a lot to both Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney. They were wonderful as John and Abigail. The actors show great chemistry imagining what the Adams were like. The sublime Sarah Polley is seen as Nabby, the suffering daughter. Evan Moss Bachrach plays John Quincy Adams. Mamie Gummer is Sally Smith Adams and Stephen Dillane comes again as Thomas Jefferson.A must see series about the birth of America and the people that made it what it is.
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