Playing like an Alfred Hitchcock wrong-man-wrong-place thriller if you replaced a Jimmy Stewart-style Everyman with Shaft, Netflix‘s The Madness is an eight-episode thriller built around the theory that, given the right opportunity, Colman Domingo is capable of being the baddest mutha on the planet. And as a proof to that theory, it is entirely successful.
The series is a pure star vehicle for Domingo — as if people had sat in a room and brainstormed cool things Colman Domingo could do, cool things Colman Domingo could say and cool things Colman Domingo could wear, and then turned Colman Domingo loose to elevate its level of cool even further. There’s an underlying giddiness in almost every frame at this being a thing that the hard-working Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated star gets to do. And with its premiere date falling on his 55th birthday, it’s a heck of a gift for an
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