Last week, history buffs got a hotly anticipated miniseries in the form of Netflix's latest drop, "Death by Lightning," an electric four-part drama starring Michael Shannon as America's 20th president James Garfield and Matthew Macfadyen as Charles Guiteau, the man who would go on to assassinate him.
The Mike Makowsky-created series is packed with all of the hallmarks of a good historical drama: period-perfect production design, a star-studded ensemble (Nick Offerman, Betty Gilpin and Bradley Whitford are also featured) and, most important of all, a drawn-from-the-history-books story that would seem preposterous if it weren't real life.
