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Death by Lightning
Season 1
Season Premiere: Oct 6, 2025
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 31 Critic Reviews
80
94% Positive
29 Reviews
29 Reviews
6% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Nov 6, 2025
[Matthew Macfadyen] delivers a peach of a performance here – not as Garfield, but as the man who assassinated him. .... Writer Mike Makowsky keeps things smart and succinct, and your attention will never wane. What could have been a fusty historical footnote is a pacy drama infused with humour.
Nov 7, 2025
“Death By Lightning” rousingly entertains and enlightens in equal measures while giving a talented cast some colorful real-life figures to portray while handing them extra-tart dialogue to chew on. It’s one of Netflix’s better series this year.
Nov 13, 2025
“Death by Lightning” is a delightful showcase for undersung character actors.
Nov 6, 2025
A savvy and well-paced political thunderstorm, "Death by Lightning" uses its talented cast to build a thrilling story out of an oft-forgotten moment in history.
Nov 6, 2025
Even delivering the story in truncated form in no way detracts from the strong and occasionally deliriously fun performances from Macfadyen, Shannon and the supporting likes of Nick Offerman, Betty Gilpin, Bradley Whitford and Shea Whigham.
Nov 6, 2025
“Death by Lightning” is a pleasantly weird show that cheerfully upends much that we’ve come to expect from presidential biopics.
Nov 6, 2025
While it’s garnished throughout with nice visual touches, Death by Lightning is not without longueurs: the first episode, in particular, feels a little like sitting through a fusty lecture on the politics of the Gilded Age. Not helping its cause is a script from Mike Makowsky that, on occasion, makes the whole thing feel like a belated PR exercise for America’s most unsung president.
By Patrick Smith FULL REVIEW
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