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I saw that and loved it... I also love that half the staff are British!!! They were really passionate about how realistic they wanted it to be and they have accomplished that.

I cannot wait until tonight's episode.... I am sure another night of bliss just in seeing Laura Linney smile.. God I love that woman. I want her to be play Ma Ingalls in the remake of Little House on the Prarie.

My love of history has always been with a healthy dose of disdain but with due respect.. I think it began with my obsession with of all people Hitler.. where I became so fascinated I studied German so I could read Mein Kampf... I am sure my parents thought a fourth grader with such odd interests was doomed for the nut factory.. . they were right but I am too quick to have been ever been caught.

Yet my odd connection to America has always been love/hate.. and at times I cannot say that my respect for the country is constant.. but I remember when my husband became a citizen and how I was reminded that this is one of the few countries that is relatively easy to do and that to witness those people taking their oath how overpowering that was and I never felt so much pride.. Or to know the struggles of those who go to great lengths to make it here.. my own mother comes to mind.. so in that legacy I cannot just abandon my home yet I sit here planning just that exodus in the next few years.

And tonight I am almost overwhelmed with such passion and such sadness that I cannot decide if these men knew as much as they thought or were in fact just bluffing their way through.. as they are so clearly and fully victims of their own egos, their own agendas and their own ideals that at times I wonder how exactly did this country come to be what it once WAS... for it is not now.

Adams was a complex man.. the Adams family such a parallel to not their namesake of 60s television but of a much more current family whose dynasty in government today cannot be ignored. Clearly Cheney knew of Adams distaste for the position his act of revenge was to see that in this dynasty that would not be the case. On that count history should once again be revered for its wisdom.

As for Jefferson I cannot wait for the ultimate book that is on this level. .the man was a fascinating complex and fully frustrating Francophile with intellect and the appropriate smugness that accompanies it (and its appeal) resonant of something more of a "modern" man.

But again you see in this episode the struggle of independence.. we have never fully found our place on the international stage.. we have tried many times to somehow become a Switzerland but circumstance, obligation, and again the ego of man has always put is back into the center where we have remained until this moment in history. Perhaps it is time to move stage right and let other ingenue's take that role for we are aging in ways that have not become us.. for we were the sprites, the envied ones, the youthful upstarts who knew bravery and courage that other countries today use as a model for their own yet much like any aging deity we are in serious need of a renovation. To the level of the French.. perhaps not that extreme but it is clear that we are not what these men had in mind.

And here Washington a man from which our Capital is named acted not as a Commander in Chief that deserved this title of respect and authority that Adams felt he so deserved.. no instead he trashed the White House like a rock star without the drugs.. well he did smoke hemp so on second thought..

And once again we see the sins of these fathers at "home" .. Its good to know that things and families never change.. sons forced into father's obligations, drunken ones, and disappointed ones... the children are marked not by their own success but that of their father's... yes I am sure the current President could learn something from that lesson.. or not.

It is also appropriate or ironic that they advertise Generation Kill and Recount.... oh and once again its Brits who seem to play Americans well oh so American.

And the part of Dick Cheney will be played tonight by Alexander Hamilton but with more gay.

Once again the modern counterpart of the Adams aka the Bushies never ceases to amaze.. Papa Bush/Adams with his own neo cons attempting to push him into war, the popularity and unity that war brings, the distasteful and yet ironic editorials (which frankly even Frank Rich wishes he could write with such vitriol) and the ever amazing woman who unlike her modern counterpart actually tans leather. Although there are times I imagine Laura getting the switch out for Bushie Jr.'s fun times.

And Jr/Jr.. drunk and disorderly.. well that hasn't changed either. Only this one doesn't make it to the White House.. Thank god or we would never even have the option of FREEDOM vs FRENCH fries.

Jefferson continues to amaze me as perhaps the most complex intellect to ever grace American soil. A Bill Clinton with less folksy charm but they both like black people...

I went to Chris Rock the other night and he said that it is about time we see a woman and a black man as candidates as our country has been run by old white dudes for 200 years and what is wrong with either of them being elected.. I mean we have had a retard for president for the past 8 years... he also commented about our money.. ironic that on our dollars the faces of these men, rapists, slave owners, thieves and asswipes grace our currency.. "I will trade you two rapists for a pervert".... yes IN GOD WE TRUST. Good thing we trust our invisible friend.. God is like Harvey only not in a bunny suit.

You know what Nancy Reagan could have done with that White House - again even our capital built on the backs of slaves.. but you know she would have had Flo working her ass of 24/7 to get that place spiffy.