Overview
- The four-episode limited series premiered November 6 on Netflix and is now streaming worldwide.
- Adapted from Candice Millard’s Destiny of the Republic, the miniseries is led by creator-director Mike Makowsky with executive producers David Benioff and D. B. Weiss.
- Michael Shannon portrays President James A. Garfield opposite Matthew Macfadyen’s Charles J. Guiteau, with noted turns from Nick Offerman, Bradley Whitford, Shea Whigham and Betty Gilpin.
- Coverage underscores historians’ view that Garfield likely succumbed to infection from unsterile care under Dr. Willard Bliss, with Alexander Graham Bell’s metal-detection attempt thwarted by a spring bed.
- The show frames Garfield’s brief tenure within Gilded Age patronage battles involving Roscoe Conkling and points to the reform legacy carried forward by Chester A. Arthur and the Pendleton Act.