Muncie Daniels (Colman Domingo) has mastered the art of being in the right place at the right time. A part-time contributor for CNN with a passion for social justice, Muncie prioritizes his professional reputation above all. It’s kind of the only thing he has going for him at the moment anyway — though he strives to look as polished as possible on paper, his personal life is strained at best. He’s on the outs with his wife Elena (Marsha Stephanie Blake), leaving their son Demetrius (Thaddeus J. Mixson) to navigate the trials of adolescence on his own.
But Muncie is also running from a past life: his younger days in North Philadelphia taught him all he knows about grassroots movements, but they harmed as much as they helped. He doesn’t talk much about his father, who served a life sentence in prison after a fatal altercation for fair housing, and he all but ignores the members of his family he left behind. When we first meet him in The Madness, a brittle tech noir created by Clement Virgo, he’s determined to move forward. It’s why Muncie is writing a novel in his downtime, renting a plush cabin in the Poconos to stoke his creativity anew.
