Director: Monica Beletsky
The gunshot at Ford's Theatre is only the opening scene; what follows is a nationwide chase and a fight over what the country becomes next.
What is Manhunt about?
In the chaotic days after a president is gunned down, a manhunt spreads across roads, rivers, and swampland as investigators race to track down the assassin before he slips out of reach entirely. Running parallel to the chase is a quieter, more dangerous struggle inside Washington, where allies of the fallen leader try to hold together the reforms he had fought for, knowing that his death has thrown their survival into doubt. Loyalties fracture, conspiracies widen beyond a single gunman, and the series treats the search itself as inseparable from the political stakes riding on its outcome. Rather than framing this as a simple crime procedural, the show lingers on how a nation grieves, argues, and rebuilds its sense of direction while the hunt is still underway.
Cast & crew
Tobias Menzies leads as the man tasked with running down the killer, bringing a weary, procedural intensity to the role, while Anthony Boyle plays the fugitive at the center of the chase with a mix of charisma and menace. Lovie Simone, Hamish Linklater, Lili Taylor, and Anne Dudek round out an ensemble split between Washington's political corridors and the backroads pursuit, each anchoring a different thread of the story as it widens beyond the manhunt itself.
Context & significance
Created by Monica Beletsky, the 2024 series draws directly from documented history but structures it with the pacing and tension of a modern thriller rather than a dry dramatization. The show's focus on Reconstruction-era politics, not just the pursuit itself, sets it apart from more conventional true-crime chase narratives, using the assassination as a lens onto a country arguing over its own future.
Where & how to watch
Manhunt is available on K-Time with Farsi dubbing and Farsi subtitles, making both the political dialogue and the chase sequences easy to follow in Persian. This page can be read by anyone, and watching the series itself just requires logging into a free K-Time account.