Hamilton's portrayal of Jefferson really nails how the bitterest enemies aren't pairs of people who stand for the precise opposite, they're pairs of people who think they believe in the exact same things.

I also love Burr's "I'm a trust-fund baby, you can trust me" because, as someone pointed out, Odom's performance is so great that Burr can't even say "baby" in reference to himself without sounding like he's creeping on someone.

No, it's a line from the show (apparently a major laugh line, given the typical composition of the audience).

You know what you also won't find? Anyone who uses the camps as an anti-FDR gotcha who doesn't favor profiling Muslim Americans.

But everything is legal in New Jersey.

I mean, I definitely didn't get the vibe that he's presenting it as a universal value of the revolution. The idea that Hamilton is way ahead of his time and alienates everyone as a result is basically the show in a nutshell.

All the Jefferson "WUTTTTTTTT"s.

Don't modulate the key and not debate with me!

"Well, it's easier to swallow than that Bambi video."

I just got a friend to shotgun Boardwalk Empire so I think I have an in now that she trusts my taste in recommendations.

Same re: Team Adams, less for any actual historical diligence on my part and more a combination of being a Masshole and "1776."

It's probably more of a 20th century thing but in my experience, historians have, while "villainized" was probably a little strong, not been subtle about being Team Jefferson. They've also heavily whitewashed what an outspoken abolitionist he was, I suspect as a way of excusing the non-abolitionist/active slave-owner…

Well he was already way ahead of the curve when he wrote a lyric for "In the Heights" in which a Latino fantasizes about making Trump carry his clubs.

Could Diggs (or Anthony Ramos or Okieriete Onaodowan) find their multiple performances in competition with one another? I have no idea what the rules are on that sort of thing, or if there's even enough precedent for there to be rules.

I read he specifically wrote that particular couplet because he thought "general" and "mineral" was a lame rhyme.

"How did we know that our plan would work? Lucky guess."

I think my favorite bit is his utter confusion at a leader voluntarily leaving his office even being a thing (which is even funnier from a history-nerd perspective considering his mental illness put him on the business end of what was essentially a bloodless coup).

Makes me think of my high school, which was pretty diverse but had a very white drama department, doing Aida my junior year, and basically having to completely reverse the traditional casting of black actors as Nubians and white ones as Egyptians.

Awesome. Wow.

It's weird that mainstream history has so thoroughly villainized Hamilton while at the same time also reducing Burr to "the damn fool that shot him" (and occasionally covering his utterly insane "conquer the Southwest" post-VP period), and here you have this show that gives us such a rich, empathetic portrayal of not…