{"id":2140861,"date":"2025-11-07T12:16:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T12:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2140861"},"modified":"2025-11-07T12:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T12:16:38","slug":"death-by-lightning-matthew-macfadyen-michael-shannon-break-down-the-timely-and-timeless-story-of-garfield-guiteau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/death-by-lightning-matthew-macfadyen-michael-shannon-break-down-the-timely-and-timeless-story-of-garfield-guiteau\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Death by Lightning\u2019: Matthew Macfadyen & Michael Shannon Break Down the \u2018Timely and Timeless\u2019 Story of Garfield & Guiteau"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Death by Lightning<\/a>, Episodes 1-4.] Death by Lightning<\/a> has landed on Netflix<\/a>, bringing to screen the story of ill-fated president James Garfield<\/a> (Michael Shannon<\/a>), and his assassin, Charles Guiteau (Matthew Macfadyen<\/a>). Based on Candice Millard<\/a>\u2019s 2011 book, Destiny of the Republic, showrunner Mike Makowsky<\/a> brings together a strong ensemble of performers to portray the historical figures in this four-part limited series. \u201cI have to confess I knew almost nothing about Garfield<\/a>,\u201d Makowsky tells TV Insider about what drew him to adapt Millard<\/a>\u2019s book. \u201cI was really just blown away by the quality of her writing and the story itself.\u201d As Makowsky puts it, \u201cI found [the book] at the buy-two-get-one-free table…<\/div>\n

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[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Death by Lightning, Episodes 1-4.] Death by Lightning has landed on Netflix, bringing to screen the story of ill-fated president James Garfield (Michael Shannon), and his assassin, Charles Guiteau (Matthew Macfadyen). Based on Candice Millard\u2019s 2011 book, Destiny of the Republic, showrunner Mike Makowsky brings together a strong […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2140862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2140861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018Death-by-Lightning-Matthew-Macfadyen-Michael-Shannon-Break-Down.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2140861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2140863,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140861\/revisions\/2140863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2140862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}