Pick of the week
The Madness
This thriller acquires a sinister subtext given recent events in the US: an opinionated, progressive, Black media personality finds a dismembered body in the woods, but when he reports it, the white establishment attempts to frame him for the crime. Colman Domingo plays the baffled, angry and increasingly terrified pundit Muncie Daniels, who is suddenly at risk of losing everything, as the grim narrative pivots to involve a white supremacist group, a conspiracy-obsessed investigative journalist and a corrupt police force. It takes a while to get going and pushes its zeitgeist bullet-points slightly too much, but it still conjures a sadly appropriate tone of oppressive paranoia.
Netflix, from Thursday 28 November
