“We do live in a very mad, mad world right now,” Colman Domingo admits.

The Emmy winner — known for his turns in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Zola, and Fear the Walking Dead — is particularly attuned to the topic. The Madness, his new thriller now streaming on Netflix, follows a media pundit caught in a deadly conspiracy.

“You can just turn on the news right now, and you’re like, ‘What is being said? And how is that being done? And why is that normal?’ None of it is normal,” Domingo says. “This [series] is really letting you know that you’re right. It’s not normal. Let’s get to the bottom of it.”

As executive producer and director Clement Virgo explains in a making-of featurette below, “The Madness is a metaphor for the world we are in now: the social media world.”

The Madness stars Domingo as media pundit Muncie Daniels,...