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Manhunt Series-Premiere Recap: Bad Actor
One of American history’s most well-known events kicks off a mystery that’s no less gripping for knowing who the culprit is from the start.
Nor does Manhunt — created by Monica Beletsky, a veteran of Fargo, The Leftovers, Friday Night Lights, and more — play fast and loose with history by inventing a puppet master (though the question of Booth’s connections to the Confederacy remains a central element). The first, played by Tobias Menzies( The Crown, You Hurt My Feelings) is Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s Secretary of War, and a rival turned friend who becomes obsessive in his pursuit of the president’s killer, sometimes jeopardizing his health in the process. Though Manhunt follows the search for Booth from its beginning to end, it makes the occasional leap in time, first hopping to a moment 30 minutes before the assassination as Herold and Powell pay a visit to the home of William H. Seward (Larry Pine), Lincoln’s Secretary of State.
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