Movies and TV shows about U.S. history can sometimes be a little dull, their sharper edges rounded off so they might be safe enough to show in a high school classroom, but there's a new Netflix miniseries that is anything but safe and stodgy. "Death By Lightning" tells the story of James Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, and the obsessive fan who killed him, Charles Guiteau. Starring Michael Shannon as Garfield and Matthew Macfadyen as Guiteau, "Death by Lightning" is not your average history lesson, offering a humorous and rather adult view of 1880s American politics. Heck, the limited series starts with a couple of guys finding Guiteau's brain in a jar in a storage room and asking, "Who the f*** is Charles Guiteau?" The irreverence is baked in from the jump. Period piec

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