'The Madness' Bosses on Colman Domingo Thriller Hitting Home in Trump 2.0 Era - NETFLIX

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Anyone else watching this?? Please No Spoilers if you have finished the series!


"If it's done dramatically and if it's done entertainingly, I don't think it's a taboo subject to talk about what screws us up as a country and what makes us great," says creator Stephen Belber of the Netflix series.

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In the throes of the aftermath to a volatile election that is returning President-elect Donald Trump to office and is surrounded by disinformation, white supremacy and conspiracies, The Madness, set in Philadelphia in the pivotal state of Pennsylvania, probably hits a lot stronger than its official description, especially with its release over the Thanksgiving holiday.

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The Hollywood Reporter spoke to Belber and Boyd below about their conspiracy thriller The Madness, delving into how and why the series was conceived, its relevancy, what Domingo brings, their Elon Musk-esque billionaire and unpacking that ending.

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Stephen, when did you conceive The Madness, because it couldn’t have been a few months ago.

STEPHEN BELBER Probably soon after Jan. 6. I was just looking around for something original to write, and I thought, “Oh, I’ll break the rule, and I’ll lean into the zeitgeist a little bit rather than try to avoid it,” which Netflix would have told me to do had I pitched it. And so it was sort of fun to say, “Oh, here’s a situation that starts out small and reverberates big.” And it’s adjacent to the feeling I’m feeling now, which is, “What the hell is going on?” I can’t quite get read on this country or on my neighbors sometimes, or on where we’re going, much less where we came from.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/the-madness-ending-colman-domingo-netflix-1236073916/

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1. Too hard to watch

I watched the first episode because I love Colman Domingo. I can't watch anymore of it because it is too real and I don't want to see Colman go through what he is going through in that series. Otherwise the first episode was excellent!