John Adams is the only appointment TV in my house this spring not only for myself, but also for my wife and my 16 year old.

Seeing what was truely the “greatest generation” brought to life, seeing the revolution era on screen, and seeing those men and that era treated not as an ivory carved myth to be protected but as a bloody, political and very real drama, its just fantastic, I wish it were an ongoing series. At the end of each episode both my daughter and I look at each other and wish there were more.

That Adams was prickly, sour, ambitious, and self-important, are pretty much all facts of history…that he was smoldering center of a political revolution that changed the world was also true. The show embraces both visions beautifully.

Sure, at times, the show falls into the trap of “Law and Order” style dialogue that sounds like exposition of background instead of sounding like the way people speak.

And there seem to be two kinds of people when it comes to Laura Linney, those who find her “peerless” and those, like me, who she just rubs the wrong way for some reason that it’s hard for me to articulate.