TV Shows: Death By Lightning (2025) ★★½

Death by Lightning? More like death by boredom, slowly … excruciatingly slowly. I watched the first two episodes expecting it to start off somewhat slowly as they introduce the characters but, by the end of episode 2, I was beginning to wonder just how I would survive not throttling Charles ‘Charlie’ Guiteau or shooting James A. Garfield myself.

Neither a sympathetic character in any way shape or form. Guiteau being portrayed as a manic lunatic who, quite frankly, is so unbelievable as to make me question any historical accuracy. This drama seems more a historical farce borne of the mind of the writer and less nailing down of the who, what, where, when and, more importantly, why.