Overview
- IndieWire reports that editors Joseph Krings, Joe Leonard, Anna Hauger, and Michael Ruscio shaped the series around parity between the two leads through precise shot choices and pacing.
- The key meeting in Episode 3 runs roughly three minutes and 30 seconds and was captured with 10 camera setups to emphasize tension, isolation, and emotional misalignment.
- The team leaned on performance nuance from Michael Shannon and Matthew Macfadyen, with Betty Gilpin, Nick Offerman, Bradley Whitford, and Shea Whigham helping calibrate the show’s tonal balance.
- People clarifies the adaptation’s liberties, noting invented sequences such as a rowdy night with Chester A. Arthur and a prison visit by Lucretia Garfield.
- The four-part series, inspired by Candice Millard’s Destiny of the Republic, premiered Nov. 6 on Netflix and reframes Gilded Age politics and medical context for contemporary viewers.