Sorry, HBO. John Adams Wasn't That Much of a Hero

Here's an interesting article from The Washington Post that argues that John Adams might not be that worthy of a miniseries. That being said I have been watching and enjoying the miniseries, I still haven't seen episode 6, but I'm looking forward to seeing it soon. Here's a bit from the article:

...Was Adams, as his admiring biographer David McCullough would have it, the one leading founder who has never received his due? Or was he his own worst enemy, succumbing to a temper and vanity unique among his contemporaries? HBO is keen to usher him into the canon, but Adams did a great deal to earn the devastating assessment that has trailed him ever since Benjamin Franklin first quipped it in 1783: "He means well for his Country, and is always an honest Man, often a Wise One, but sometimes and in some things, absolutely out of his senses."