Oscar nominee Colman Domingo is sensational in the new Netflix series “The Madness,” a provocative, unnerving, but ultimately uneven new limited series.

A project like “The Madness” ought to be a feather in the cap of someone like Colman Domingo. Though the performer has been working steadily for decades, a few years’ worth of increasingly prominent roles — in “Euphoria,

The Madness isn't based on a true story, but Colman Domingo's character, Muncie Daniels, was inspired by aspects of real media pundits. His character working at CNN, a real US TV channel, adds extra authenticity to the idea of drawing on real life to form the narrative for the series.