Prime Video believes that what Americans crave most at this particular moment in history are stories about United States presidents who have morals, value allies and global partnerships, and kick ass—even if they’re former celebrities.

Elba, whose career includes a lot of what might be called prestige genre, has such natural poise and gravity that one assumes he's done all the Shakespeares and Shaws and Ibsens, but "The Wire" and " Luther " were more his thing.