Watched the first two Episodes of Manhunt (Apple+) yesterday. I was looking forward to it, but have to say I'm not all that impressed with how it's going so far. It's about the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth led by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. Tobias Menzies is decent as Stanton, but can't say much for the rest of the cast or the writing. I don't know exactly how this manhunt went down, but there seems to be a lot of detail missing, such as there was no Google nor fast cars in 1865, so how did they get investigators out to Harvey Mudd's house so quickly based only on one witnesses account that Booth might have an injured leg leading to the assumption that he'd probably seek out a doctor - and all they were confident about was that Booth was probably in Maryland at the time.
The actor playing Lincoln seemed a bit goofy. Patton Oswalt seems terribly miscast as Stanton's top detective. The women are fairly useless save for Lovie Simone as the slave girl Mary. We've just been introduced to Andrew Johnson, played by longtime character actor Glenn Morshower (who somehow seems younger than he did when he was in 24).
I'll be sticking with it in hopes the storyline and dialogue improve, but can't say I'm impressed at this point. The showrunner, Monica Beletsky, was key to S3 of Fargo, and this appears to be her big breakout gig, but I'm thinking this might've been better with someone more experienced at the helm. We'll see.
