Watched Death by Lightning. Friends of mine disagree but I thought it wasn?t very good. Maybe it was just not much of a story, or maybe the story was not well told, but i found it to be mundane in general and the characters to be stereotypical and not well acted. Essentially, a mentally ill man with delusions of grandeur decides to go from supporter to murderer overnight while a mild-mannered, unlikely president makes civil rights progress and finds a way to destroy corruption in NYC and the US Senate in a couple of months in office. And this, even as his corrupt, drunken, incompetent, buffoon of a VP (Chester Arthur) works from the inside to maintain the corruption and undermine the president. Arthur changes his ways after Garfield (the president, not the cat) refuses his resignation and gets shot. Of course, after being shot, the on the scene doctor is a black man who warns the white doctor not to risk sepsis as the white doctor takes over and practices unsanitary medicine attempting to retrieve the bullet in Garfield?s body. The scene provides obvious foreboding as Garfield dies a couple of months later of sepsis due to the white doctors malpractice.
The transformation of Chester Arthur occurs during Garfields unsuccessful convalescence when Garfield?s wife slaps the vice president in the face - and suddenly he is a new man, ethical and capable. IDK what is and isn?t accurate in the story, but I didn?t find it compelling and was grateful that it ended mercifully after 4 episodes. I wouldn?t have stuck it out if it had been longer.
But my friends liked it.
I liked it, if only because it told a story that I wasn't familiar with in a digestible way. I think I would only recommend it to people who really like American history though.
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