Peacefield

Episode aired Apr 20, 2008
TV-14
1h 2m

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8.5/10

801

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While in retirement in Peacefield, Adams looks back at his public life with some regrets and has to deal with tragedy in his personal life.While in retirement in Peacefield, Adams looks back at his public life with some regrets and has to deal with tragedy in his personal life.While in retirement in Peacefield, Adams looks back at his public life with some regrets and has to deal with tragedy in his personal life.

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IMDb RATING

8.5/10

801

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10CubsandCulture

meditative, calming

This is more of extended epilogue than anything else. The central aspects-reconciliation with Jefferson, mortality-are largely just things that happened and not a plot moving forward. It the most leisurely of the episodes but gives you the proper time to think. It has been a great series.

10petrow-31308

Saved the series as a whole

After the awful 6th episode I had not held my hopes particularly high for the series finale - and boy was I wrong. "Peacefield" was a poignant, respectful, measured and yet, both heart-warming and heart-wrenching 62 minutes. All the praise goes for Giamatti and Linney for their portrayal of the aging couple, and most of the supporting cast who deliver their A-game. Everything that was amiss with "Unnecessary war" was spot on in "Peacefield": the pacing, the focus, the personal drama and the portrayal of those larger-than-life figures of the United States' history, both brought closer to us and magnified their virtues. Overall, an excellent closure of this remarkable series.

Trivia
In real life, Adams and Jefferson had resumed their friendship through correspondence while Abigail was still alive.

Goofs
John Adams looks at the famous painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and says that everyone in the painting is dead except for Thomas Jefferson and himself. But Charles Carroll, who is pictured, was a signer from Maryland who died in 1832, living 6 years longer than Adams.