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Death by Lightning

Season 1

4 listed hours · 2025 · Netflix

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How this season is filed

Filed by Lana Reyes · Red Carpet Reality

Garfield's assassination as standom tragedy: Michael Shannon and Matthew Macfadyen bearded, obscure presidential history made bingeable. Watch for Macfadyen's post-Succession pivot into an office-seeker who loves too hard, and for a Netflix limited series that treats 1881 politics like a fandom with a gun and a terrible poem.

TV Flash files Season 1 of Death by Lightning (2025) on Netflix as the only listed season — 4 listed hours, 2025-11-06 from “The Man from Ohio” (S01E01) to “Destiny of the Republic” (S01E04). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.

Desk essentials in this season

  1. S01E01 The Man from Ohio

    The Man from Ohio as the assassination-as-standom door: Michael Shannon's Garfield, Matthew Macfadyen's post-Succession pivot, obscure 1881 politics made bingeable.

  2. S01E04 Destiny of the Republic

    Destiny of the Republic as the four-episode close: the titled fate, still an office-seeker who loves too hard, still Netflix limited history with bearded craft.

  3. S01E02 Party Faithful

    Party Faithful as the machine hour: patronage as plot, still Shannon and Macfadyen, still presidential history treated as tragedy rather than a marble special.

  4. S01E03 Casus Belli

    Casus Belli as the titled cause: war-grammar on a domestic assassination, still standom tragedy, still a limited series the desk watches for the pivot.

  1. S01E01

    The Man from Ohio

    At the 1880 Republican National Convention, the lives of Ohio Congressman James Garfield and newly released convict Charles Guiteau are forever altered.

  2. S01E02

    Party Faithful

    In the runup to Election Day, Garfield welcomes the nation to his front porch, while Guiteau struggles to ingratiate himself with Party leadership.

  3. S01E03

    Casus Belli

    Treachery from within the White House complicates Garfield's attempts to appoint a Cabinet. Guiteau tries everything to secure a Presidential audience.

  4. S01E04

    Destiny of the Republic

    Conkling goes on the offensive as Garfield challenges the New York political machine. Isolated and desperate, Guiteau weighs a history-making decision.

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