“I wish there were more people like James Garfield nowadays,” says Michael Shannon, who plays the corruption-fighting 20th United States president in this moving four-part limited series, Death by Lightning. “The more I learned about him, the more I fell in love with him.” Based on Candice Millard’s 2011 bestseller Destiny of the Republic, the show follows the parallel paths of the chief executive and his deranged assassin, Charles Guiteau (Matthew Macfadyen), who shot Garfield in 1881, four months into his term. The series begins with Representative Garfield of Ohio, a preacher, lawyer, and Civil War hero living on a farm with his children and smart wife, Lucretia, nicknamed Crete (Betty Gilpin…
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