Oscar nominee Colman Domingo is sensational in the new Netflix series “The Madness,” a provocative, unnerving, but ultimately uneven new limited series.

A project like “The Madness” ought to be a feather in the cap of someone like Colman Domingo. Though the performer has been working steadily for decades, a few years’ worth of increasingly prominent roles — in “Euphoria,

The Madness isn't based on a true story, but Colman Domingo's character, Muncie Daniels, was inspired by aspects of real media pundits. His character working at CNN, a real US TV channel, adds extra authenticity to the idea of drawing on real life to form the narrative for the series.

The limited series from Stephen Belber invokes paranoid vigilance, but doesn't always lean into the possibilities.

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 The Madness is a middling modern take on The Fugitive, bolstered by Colman Domingo's lead performance.

A good political thriller is often decidedly of the moment, with enough meat on its bones to become timeless as it ages, and there's certainly no shortage of material to draw on, given our current political climate.

Read our review of The Madness where Colman Domingo delivers an electrifying performance, but a predictable plot and weak twists drag the series down.

Netflix's sometimes too-coincidental conspiracy thriller "The Madness" would be fine but forgettable without the powerhouse of Colman Domingo.

The actor plays a TV pundit who finds himself framed for the murder of a white nationalist in Stephen Belber’s Netflix series.

But despite the usual gravitas and magnetism that Colman displays here, The Madness can’t quite match the nuance and natural grace of its lead performer. There are urgent and intriguingly knotty themes at play in the show,