‘The Madness’ Teaser: Colman Domingo Is a Former Political Consultant Being Framed for Murder

The Emmy Award winner and Oscar-nominated actor is joined by Bradley Whitford and Stephen McKinley Henderson for the Netflix crime series.

Colman Domingo just might be the most prolific man in Hollywood.

Just on the TV side alone, Domingo is currently in production on Netflix’s “The Four Seasons” reimagining, and now the trailer for his other Netflix series “The Madness” has been released. Domingo sure knows how to stay busy.

The actor plays Muncie Daniels, a political consultant-turned-TV pundit who takes a work sabbatical to write the next great American novel. While in the Poconos on his writing retreat, though, Muncie finds himself as the only witness to the murder of a well-known white supremacist, and now he’s being framed for the crime.

Per the official synopsis, “Muncie is forced to go on the run in a desperate fight to clear his name and unravel a global conspiracy before time runs out. Along the way he’ll reconnect with his family, find unlikely allies, and fight against disinformation in a post-truth age.”

Bradley Whitford, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Gabrielle Graham, John Ortiz, Tamsin Topolski, and TJ Mixson also star, with the cast including Deon Cole, Hamish Allan-Headley, Ennis Esmer, Alison Wright, and Stephen McKinley Henderson, who additionally appears in fellow Netflix series “A Man on the Inside.”

“The Madness” is created by executive producer Stephen Belber. Clement Virgo directs the eight-episode series and also serves as an executive producer with VJ Boyd and Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, and Kaitlin Dahill for Chernin Entertainment.

The Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated Domingo led 2024’s critically acclaimed prison-set “Sing Sing,” and he is set to reprise his role on “Euphoria” Season 3, which will begin production in January 2025. Domingo is further reuniting with his “Euphoria” co-star Sydney Sweeney for his directorial debut, biopic “Scandalous.” Sweeney will be portraying Kim Novak alongside “Industry” actor David Jonsson as Sammy Davis Jr.

And Domingo has already announced a film about Nat King Cole that he will star in and direct; his budding biopic empire also includes his portrayal of controversial patriarch Joe Jackson in the Michael Jackson feature “Michael.”

The concept of the “post-truth age,” as Netflix described “The Madness,” is also being explored in another upcoming crime series at the streamer. Robert De Niro will lead Netflix political thriller series “Zero Day,” which is being billed by Netflix as a “ripped-from-reality” thriller that “asks the question on everyone’s mind — how do we find truth in a world in crisis, one seemingly being torn apart by forces outside our control? And in an era rife with conspiracy theory and subterfuge, how much of those forces are products of our own doing, perhaps even of our own imagining?”

“The Madness” premieres November 28 on Netflix. Check out the teaser below.