I like Cumberbatch, but I feel like this is bad casting.

I think now that we have a generation of screenwriters who actually play video games, the onscreen depictions of them will get a little less awkward.

Although Graham Green also put in some time in MI6.

That's it, man. Game over, man. Game over, what the fuck are we supposed to now, huh, what are we gonna do?

Seven hundred thousand people had just died. The South was teetering on the brink of an insurgency. The president, Andrew Johnson, despite favoring the preservation of the Union, was a Southern sympathizer. Present all that to an actualy-pretty-rascist North, and no one was going to want to do anything.