Death By Lightning (Netflix) TV Show

4 episode limited series on Netflix November 6th.

Based on the non-fiction book Destiny of the Republic. About the United States presidential election of 1880 and the assassination of president James Garfield (Michael Shannon) by Charles Guiteau (Matthew Macfadyen) shortly thereafter. Nick Offerman is also playing Vice President and future POTUS Chester A Arthur. Betty Gilpin playing First Lady Lucretia Garfield.

 

Ooooh.

 

I am through the first two episodes and think this is pretty damn good. It's stacked with good actors and I am sucker for historical shows like this. I hope Netflix does more shows in a similar vein as this, I think there is a ton of good subjects even just looking at Presidents that could be done that are not "well known".

Also, did not realize that the guy who played Gavin Belson in Silicon Valley directed all the episodes until I looked the show up on Wikipedia.

 

Caught the first episode. Peak HBO tier quality of historical drama mini series. Shannon is electric.