the way it really should be, I'd get cable!

But to squeeze a 12 part miniseries, heavy with symbolism and multiple layers of meaning into a less than three hours of screen time - it's going to be a disappointment.

I just can't see how you can adequately explain any of the characters in that time, so most of them will be at best sketches, at worst caricatures.  

Of all the panels I remember, the one of an aged Nixon, clutching the "atomic football" with the nuclear launch codes as he sits down in Air Force One stays with me.  He looks like he would rather be anywhere else than leading a nation that is on the brink of a nuclear war that no one can win.

And in that world, we WON the Vietnam War!