This is the story of President James Garfield and his greatest admirer Charles Guiteau, the man who would come to kill him.
— Netflix (@netflix) October 9, 2025
Michael Shannon, Matthew Macfadyen, Nick Offerman, Betty Gilpin, Bradley Whitford and Shea Whigham star in Death By Lightning. Premiering November 6. pic.twitter.com/OGWlgbziaM
I'll turn Netflix back on for that. I originally subscribed to Netflix for one show — "The Crown." That's all it takes to rope me into a subscription. And I would not have unsubscribed if they hadn't dropped "Loudermilk."
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steal it from your nephew like everyone else
A rare occasion when completely anachronistic music actually works.
"That's not who we are"..."eat shit"....A Bruce Buffer type introduction for a public speech in 1900.... A story heroifying the murderer of an American president.
This is an assassination incitement created by libtard Democrat Party members encouraging more of their wicked and deranged followers to murder DonaldTrump. . Absolutely despicable.
I also am currently not subscribed to Netflix, and last time I was subscribed was to watch one show. I had a hankering to rewatch the series, "The West Wing," and it was on Netflix at the time.
i seldom stay on Any subscription for more than One month.
that it usually plenty of time to watch EVERY THING they have of interest to me.
The last exception was HBO. i started it again for the new season of Gilded Age (i wanted to know about the alarm clock).
HBO knows what people are doing and releases only an episode a week so that it drags out into 2 months.
I'd thought that i'd waited long enough to get it all in 1 month, and they put a 2 week pause right in the middle of the series.
still Think they don't know what's going on?
Anyway; when you cancel, it goes on until the end of the month. So cancel early, so you don't forget!
Now that you’re back on Netflix, there’s a new series about a guy from Wisconsin. I think his first name is Ed…
assassination fantasy - yup. If you’re gonna write the four parter what parallels current events why not write the leftie cabal story, seeded in the heyday of 60s radicals they try to take down a nation by gaming the perceived weakness of the system and fail, despite all the crooked lawyers, professors, politicians, government agents, evil germ warfare scientists, election stats gurus, soulless propagandists, a sex offender registry guerrilla army, silver zip-up onesie bond villains…All the players hide in plain sight yet the grand plan fails to gain traction. Queue Sha Na Na…
We’re going through a winnowing process on streaming. It was helped along by Amazon’s decision to show commercials on their service—even for the premium channels you pay extra for. So we got rid of Paramount, then Britbox, then Amazon itself (we cancelled Prime), and most recently Disney. We still have Netflix and Crave (roughly, the Canadian Hulu). We track offerings Britbox with the intention of subscribing when there’s enough we want to see and I get a sports package during football season (the value of which I am seriously questioning this year as it feels like it includes far fewer games I want to see compared to last year).
I don’t see us cancelling either Netflix or Crave, but price increases could change that. There are still plenty of quality offerings, but streaming may price itself out of many peoples’ homes.
You can always tell it is Netflix if the historical movies insert gratuitous sex scenes so that nothing of interest can be watched by families. "President Garfield movie? There had best be naked humping or we are not funding it!" Seriously, is the film industry just a cover for perverts?
Finally they make a movie out of Robert Klein's most memorable punchline from his comedy album a child of the '50s. James A Garfield: shot by a disappointed office seeker.
You people can get mad at the assassination story and think it's all about you and Trump but you can also get mad about how is it a dig at Trump's attempt to take down of the federal bureaucracy. It's a never ending cycle of scorn heaped on you from the elitist libtard Hollywood pedophile promoting globalists:
Gemini AI Says:
Yes, the Pendleton Civil Service Act, a landmark civil service reform law, was passed in January 1883, following the assassination of President James A. Garfield in 1881 by a disgruntled office seeker. The assassination provided significant public impetus for civil service reform, leading to the passage of the bill that established a merit-based system for federal employment.
Background to the Law
The "Spoils System": Before the Pendleton Act, the United States relied heavily on the "spoils system," where government jobs were given as rewards for political loyalty rather than on merit or competence.
Growing Incompetence: Mounting corruption, incompetence, and graft in federal departments due to the spoils system created public demand for reform.
Charles Guiteau's Motive: President Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau, a disappointed office seeker who believed he deserved a position for his perceived help in securing Garfield's election.
"After two weeks I didn't miss TV." - Fight Clib
Like the government shutdown, mass media's greatest fear isn't that you might cancel, it's that you might not notice they're gone. Most people won't miss hollywood, and they'll be dead by mid-century.
Since you're back on Netflix, check out 'Black Rabbit' with Jason Bateman and Jude Law.
I just changed mobile plans to T-Mobile (from AT&T, which wasn't nearly as good, more expensive, poor customer service, yet so much better than Verizon). The new plan comes with Apple+ (no free months then pay, fully covered) and Netflix with ads. I went ahead and turned on Apple+, because I wanted to watch "Greyhounds" (it was bad, like worse than "Transformers" bad, in terms of no character development, shaky cam, and action sequences that are just junk on the screen).
Maybe I'll check out Netflix. With baseball season over for the Astros; FuboTV subscription is turned off. I cancelled a lot of subscriptions at the end of September. It was great.
"....It was helped along by Amazon’s decision to show commercials on their service—even for the premium channels you pay extra for. ...."
It would seem that every*single*business*venture in the wide world eventually degrades to the point where the bean counters assert their preeminence and demand the authority to degrade the quality of the experience in the name of profit margins. Relentless advertising, and the relentless increase in the demands of advertising to seize your attention, regardless of your willingness, is one of the principle reasons I refuse to go to the movies or watch network TV. I really dislike it, and them. You would think some smart creature would figure out a better way to do it.
Macfadyen originally on spooks british 24 that lost the plot he played the heroic tom quinn
"if the historical movies insert gratuitous sex scenes so that nothing of interest can be watched by families"
It's all smut to draw in the female audience, who would never watch historical fiction. I just got hooked on The Hollow Crown, and the S-O is sort of watching it with me, and, of course it's for the hunky actors.
Monarchs and Democrats, Democrats and Monarchs, a Democratic Monarch, a Monarchal Democrat in fluid transition.
As an aside. If in Cleveland, go to Lakeview Cemetery and the Garfield Monument. His crypt is in the basement. Then climb the narrow steps to the balcony on top. Stunning view of Cleveland skyline with Lake Erie in the background.
From that sex scene clip, it looked like Guiteau was taking something up the ass from that woman.
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I just changed mobile plans to T-Mobile...
Maybe I'll check out Netflix. With baseball season over for the Astros; FuboTV subscription is turned off."
You know that if you have T-Mobile you get MLB.tv for free. You don't need Fubo.
And while Trump is no Garfield, surely out there somewhere there is an Antifa/Resistance/Democrat/Crazy who will watch this series as inspiration, with rapt attention to details. Hope the Secret Service reform is moving along right quickly.
For a second I thought Althouse was going to say she unsubscribed Netflix because she listened to the great African American Elon Musk call to do so.
Oh well. 😆
Wait until Netflix runs "A House of Dynamite" later this month. You will want to keep your subscription for that.
I, for one, look forward to Squeaky Fromme's biopic. She is still poster child for gun safety training, although for all the wrong reasons. She didn't know how to operate her 1911, and it didn't fire when she had Ford a few feet away and in her sights.
America can FINALLY expand its knowledge of this tragic event beyond the Robert Klein joke:
Garfield was assassinated. Shot by a disappointed office seeker, right? Don't they always say that same sentence? It's crazy. Every time you read his name: James Abram Garfield: "Shot by a disappointed office seeker." That's all they can think of what he did in his short term of office. You look in the Encyclopedia Britannica under Garfield, James Abram. It says, "See Office seeker, disappointed."
"And I would not have unsubscribed if they hadn't dropped "Loudermilk."
I too loved Loudermilk, but Netflix didn't drop Loudermilk. It was originally on AT&T Audience Network, but that network shut down after two years. A third year was produced, and Amazon prime picked it up and aired all three years (That's where I binge watched it). No further seasons were made because by then most of the cast was off doing other things.
I didn't know Netflix picked up all three years too, and it was available for 18 months, plenty of time to get through all episodes. If you didn't watch them all you may want to check Youtube. I've seen whole episodes on there, but don't know if all episodes are available.
he wasn't merely an office seeker, he was a bohemian follower of Charles Fourier, why not an American for the role, besides these English costume dramas, McFadyen probably hit the big time as the head of the TVA in dead pool and wolverine last year, also he played awol parliamentarian john stonehouse, in that acorn project,
also Ripper Street, a Victorian detective story,
Millard's Churchill book is excellent.
"Based on true events" is rarely a recommendation to me, but I will say that they seem to get the look of the past right in the excerpt.
I dropped NetFlix during the "Cuties" run and I am not giving them money, regardless of any present content. Not that they've been that tempting on that score, either.
"For a second I thought Althouse was going to say she unsubscribed Netflix because she listened to the great African American Elon Musk call to do so. Oh well."
I unsubscribed because I couldn't find anything I wanted to watch — but I hardly watch anything on TV other than, recently, baseball — and then I noticed it was costing $26 a month.
I'd pay $12 a month just to have one more thing available to shuffle through looking for things, but not twice that.
Somehow I bought a whole year of Paramount Plus... just to be able to watch "South Park." It's something to search through. Theoretically, I might care to watch something. Old "Twilight Zone"s or something.
I keep HBO. I still watch Bill Maher and it's a place maybe to find a movie or an old HBO series. And I'll always keep Criterion, even if mainly to reward them for their good work.
I added YouTube TV for the post-season baseball (which is more than $80). During the season, we were paying FanDuel $26 a month to get all the Brewers games, beginning back when they were having that 14-game streak.
"I too loved Loudermilk, but Netflix didn't drop Loudermilk. It was originally on AT&T Audience Network, but that network shut down after two years. A third year was produced, and Amazon prime picked it up and aired all three years (That's where I binge watched it)."
I know. We were just watching reruns. I wanted to be able to rewatch old shows. We'd seen them all once.
"I didn't know Netflix picked up all three years too, and it was available for 18 months, plenty of time to get through all episodes...."
We're not about binge watching everything once. More about savoring rewatching small bits. Like to see it available and might watch half an episode at a time.
MLB would make a lot of money if they would just offer their product directly without blackouts, but I guess that would be ruined by politicians calling it a monopoly.
Loudermilk wasn't picked up because it was too jewish.
The series about Garfield could be interesting but no doubt they included lots of sex and profantity so 21st Century audiences would feel at home. Plus zero Christianity. Most people in 1880s weren't religious but they pretended to be, and "God talk" (as FDR labeled it) was common in public speech.
And minus 10 points for the horrible music.
No doubt President Garfield or the Assassian will have a "wacky Gay Neighbor".
also Ripper Street, a Victorian detective story
Fans of Macfadyen should definitely check out Ripper Street. The acting is incredible. There's a great episode involving the Elephant Man in season 2. The cops call him "Mr. Merrick." Brilliant.
Macfadyen is also in the best of the Austen movies, Pride and Prejudice with Keira. He's quite good and she, of course, is amazing.
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Its funny how Presidents from Ohio were always dying and getting replaced VP's from the northeast. Garfield killed - NY VP. McKinley - NY VP. Harding - Vermont VP.
Fun fact: Robert Todd Lincoln was present at three assassinations. His father's, Garfield's and McKinley's.
Well, maybe not "fun."
I may have to skip this, because I usually like TV shows with likable Jews fighting antisemitism, strong, sassy, black women or wise latinas.
I subscribed to Netflix to watch the Crown then unsubscribed when they had young girl twerking and being overtly sexual.
We unsubscribed because Netflix promotes groomers.
"We're not about binge watching everything once. More about savoring rewatching small bits. Like to see it available and might watch half an episode at a time."
Ah, then like I said, tons of content on youtube.
Netflix was out for us when they gave the Obamas that $60m production deal.
Looks interesting. I''ll watch without Netflix.
Guiteau was a 19th century Squeaky Fromme. Not only was he delusional, he also belonged to a sex cult.
And was quite frustrated at not actually getting sex from anyone in the cult.
I believe Garfield was the president who could write with one hand in Latin and the other hand in Greek. Pretty good for someone who started out as a humble canal boy. But don't hold me to any of that.
My ego couldn’t take my agent calling me and saying, ‘They think you’re perfect for it!’ Gee, Thanks…
Betty Gilpin as Lucretia Garfield! I, for one, cannot wait.
rehajam: much as I wish you were right, how, precisely, did the Maoist terrorist fanatics of the 1960s not eventually win? They have succeeded in setting Western Civilization itself on a path to fiery oblivion, using kindergarteners as their weapon of choice.
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