The Madness is a limited crime thriller series created by Stephen Belber that follows CNN pundit Muncie Daniels (Colman Domingo) when he gets caught up in a murder case while renting a cabin in the Poconos. After stumbling upon the crime scene and successfully escaping the killers, Muncie finds the police, who set their sights on him as the prime suspect. The situation only gets worse for Muncie when the victim is identified as Mark Simon (Tahmoh Penikett), an alt-right influencer, whose political opinions were the complete opposite to Muncie's, adding to the increased suspicion by the police and the public that Muncie may have committed the murder himself.