Despite staying on top of Netflix’s Top 10 list for over a week, I find myself siding with the negative audience reviews of The Madness, now that I’ve finished the series. While the show felt a bit wobbly midway through,

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

In the eight-part series Domingo stars as a media pundit, Muncie Daniels, who ends up having to prove his innocence after he stumbles upon a dead body while on a solo trip in the Poconos mountains. He becomes the prime suspect for the death and during this ordeal he tries to reconnect with his estranged family in order to help him survive.

Netflix has not made a decision on this yet, which is not surprising given how close to release we still are, and the show is still on top so we don’t even know how long that run might go. But its star,

Netflix has released The Madness, a conspiracy thriller starring Colman Domingo. With a plot full of twists and a stellar cast, this series promises to be the talk of the season.