Michael Shannon's Garfield heads toward a very bad Monday in the Death By Lightning trailer

Scored to Ten Years After’s “I’d Love To Change The World,” the trailer builds an affecting mood of tension as it tracks Garfield’s rise—and the simultaneous build of Guiteau’s rapidly curdling delusions of greatness. Along the way we get glimpses of Offerman’s Arthur cutting a rug and making himself rich, and a quick cut to Bradley Whitford as Secretary Of State James Blaine, whose condemnation of Guiteau helped transform him from “irritating nuisance” to “second man in American history to be executed for assassination.” Throughout the whole thing, there’s a palpable sense of a seriocomic tone, especially from Macfadyen, who’s always been good at making characters seem humorously pathetic without stopping them from also being extremely dangerous.

Death By Lightning was created by Mike Makowsky (Bad Education), working under the aegis of D.B. Benioff and David Weiss and their fellow 3 Body Problem EP Bernie Caulfield. The series, which also stars Shea Whigham, debuts on Netflix on November 6.