In the new historical TV drama "Death by Lightning," Michael Shannon says he and costar Matthew Macfadyen highlight a period in the U.S. where there were "a lot of disenfranchised people that felt adr...

Death by Lightning chronicles a shockingly true period of American history that is largely overlooked in academic textbooks and public consciousness.

Though Garfield doesn’t die immediately, the real villain is 19th-century medicine itself. His doctors, led by Dr. Bliss (Željko Ivanek), refuse antiseptic methods and probe the wound with unwashed fingers and instruments.

The idea is that these people are public servants, civil servants. They're not kings. They're not, it's not about having control or power.