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They just don't make social revolutions like they used to. The finale three minutes of this episode, in which we switch from the character groups in the reading of the Declaration of Independence, feature powerful imagery. The pox, the colonial uniforms, the farm, the guns, the letters, the children.

As the title character Giamatti is good, but Laura Linney is amazing as Abigail Adams. The writing portrays a captivating relationship between the these two incredibly strong people, but when they're in a scene together my eyes inevitably stray to Linney. She earns her Emmy and then some. The scenes with her children and the vaccinations were heartbreaking.

I've been fascinated by the number three for a long time. It's not my favorite number (that'd be 12), but it's always held a bit of a mystique for me. I learned the rule of 3 and 5 when I first took art class, and it has lasted in my mind longer than most of the other things I learned in high school.

I love phrases that come in three words, I love lists of three, I note that the first essays they make you write in school have three body paragraphs, and there's three primary colors, and all great stories have three characters, even if the third character is just a place or an idea. The three main characters for ATLA, for example, are Aang, the Avatar, and Zuko. The three main characters of The X Files are Mulder, Scully, and the FBI. The three main characters of The Little Mermaid are Ariel, Ursula, and Eric.

Three nights of moonlight for werewolves to transform, three promises to seal it, 1-2-3-GO!, rock-paper-scissors, getting your steak done to well, medium, or rare.

Clovers have three leaves, I'll give you three guesses, three sirens, three fates, three warnings, three colors on the stop light, three medals to win at the Olympics, and the linguistic conjugation of good, better, best.

It's a great number to play with, and it holds a unique place in our culture, structurally and linguistically. After all, nobody ever wrote a song called called "Bizzare Love Square."