If your knowledge about the President Abraham Lincoln assassination begins and ends with his killer John Wilkes Booth, then the Apple TV+ series Manhunt will take you down a rabbit hole of post-American Civil War politics.  

It certainly has been the experience for Patton Oswalt, who plays Detective Lafayette Baker, the lawman tasked by Lincoln’s Secretary of War Edwin Stanton (The Crown’s Emmy-feted Tobias Menzies) with hunting down Booth (Masters of the Air’s Anthony Boyle), a theatre actor-turned-assassin-turned-poster-child-for-the-failed Confederacy.