The final episode of Netflix's new conspiracy thriller The Madness sums up the show's theme in one sentence: "If you stir up the madness of the world, then that madness will eventually come back to bite you.

Colman Domingo delivers a modern-day "The Fugitive"-style paranoid thriller with Netflix's new limited series "The Madness." The "Rustin" and "Euphoria" star takes on the role of Muncie Daniels, a lauded CNN commentator who finds his spotlight turned against him when he stumbles onto the dead body of a high-profile white supremacist and winds up getting framed for the crime.

There’s just one problem: while Domingo acquits himself just fine as an increasingly frenzied man on the lam, “The Madness” itself is a schlocky mess, its pulpy appeal dimmed by a drawn-out runtime and attempts at social commentary that fail to find their mark.

The 'Euphoria' Emmy winner plays a television pundit whose proximity to the death of a high-profile white supremacist leads to wrongful accusations and an unraveling plot.

Like the paranoid notions that drive their protagonists, conspiracy thrillers are constantly shifting. The genre is remarkably malleable; the '60s, '70s, and '80s produced some of the form's best -- "The Manchurian Candidate,

Apologies to star Colman Domingo, but the ever-changing villains, dated takes on politics and nonsensical set up make this show just about unwatchable.

Netflix’s new miniseries The Madness isn’t about the events of Jan. 6, 2021. But show creator Stephen Belber explains how the unsettling events of the Capitol insurrection that day had a direct impact on the creation of the conspiracy-tinged thriller.

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