Pretty, pretty good


There were some inaccuracies, but on the other hand a lot more detail than we might have otherwise expected. For once John Jay showed up in one of these things, a rare occurrence! On the other hand we didn't get Silas Deane or Arthur Lee, who were co-envoys with Franklin in the early days. Beaumarchais also disappeared early. Mme. Chaumont's story about needing compensation probably rightly belongs to him. I think Franklin actually mostly stayed with Mme. Helvetius rather than her. We also might have had John Paul Jones, but no luck there. We also didn't get Benjamin's final encounter with his son as we might have. But they did all they could with the 8 episodes they had. Too bad we don't get a second season to cover his final years and the constitutional convention.

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