Look, there’s been a lot of bad television this year. I’ve had the (dis)honor of reviewing some of these shows, but none have stretched my critical credulity quite as much as The Madness. It’s a mish-mash of genres, a political thriller-slash-murder mystery with some flat family drama to try to up the pathos of the proceedings, all coming together for a toothless, vague, and confused end product. It’s a series that lands even more awkwardly in November 2024, given how much the show thinks it has to say about contemporary American politics. After all, how can you possibly take a show seriously after the phrase “Antifa on meth with uzis” is uttered with complete and total earnestness?

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But I’m getting ahead of myself. At its most basic level, The Madness is about an occasional CNN contributor named Muncie Daniels (Colman Domingo) who gets framed for the gruesome murder of a white supremacist after stumbling upon his corpse and getting chased by his killers. The........

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