Death by Lightning
I watched the 4 episode Netflix series “Death by Lightning”, about President James Garfield. I somewhat wonder on how an earlier depiction of things in an earlier decade would get depicted -with the scene of Charles Guiteau at Oneida, the people at the commune taking his complaints that it is all menial labor and fucking that his complaint is the women at the free love commune won’t do him — this falls in line with current take of mass shootings and violence as stemming broadly from incel entitlement.
Another thought, kind of where I am always stuck and sometimes end up with no consideration or assessment of “well written” and “badly written” because it is the mark of both — the dialogue foreshadowing through an expression referencing Garfield’s death. It strikes me that if a central event of a historical fiction was the famous person eating a hamburger at lunch, you would be finding allusions to that in their life and propping those up, and inventing a few for this mundane occurrence made a central point.