Given the amount of research done on Grant and his own memoirs this could have easily been several actual seasons and not lost any pacing. I'm glad the History Channel didn't throw in any of their more recent wackiness and gave us a almost straight up history. Some of the blood spurts in battle reenactments were a bit over the top, beyond realistic to the point of being slasher-film like. Grant's presidency is also given very little air time, even though he was president twice as long as he was a general in the army. But overall even if you have just a passing interest in history this will keep your attention and maybe even educate you on one of the greatest Americans.
