THE MADNESS Series Trailer

THE MADNESS Series Trailer - official trailer HD

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00:00You are reporting a murder with no name and no body.

00:07They are going to pin all this on you.

00:13The Madness is about a CNN analyst who gets wrongly accused of a crime.

00:17I feel like I can't breathe.

00:20We find him at the height of his career. He's a commentator, a pundit on CNN.

00:25He writes for Harper's and Atlantic. He teaches at UPenn.

00:29He is a very suave, cool man who's living his best life. He's on top of the world.

00:35You got a handle for everything.

00:38He's modeled after these pundits that are respected, at times challenged, even by their own communities.

00:44Sometimes looked at as being not black enough and then to some folks too black.

00:48He was someone who was definitely an activist when he was younger.

00:51He moved into a different echelon and then became a bit of a superstar.

00:55And he's a little bit removed from the communities that he was advocating for.

00:58For every person like you who stops doing the work to go on TV and merely talk about it, no offense.

01:04And then he's accused of murdering a white supremacist.

01:08And he's on the run to try to figure out what is happening.

01:11I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and now they want to put this on me.

01:15Along the way Muncy discovers a conspiracy and realizes it's much bigger than he ever thought.

01:21He's at a crossroads and he's trying to solve a crime but at the same time he's trying to solve something inside himself.

01:27Madness is a kind of metaphor for the world that we're in now, the social media world.

01:32You wake up every day and you read various headlines and we're in a sort of world where the notion of objectivity is really hard to come by.

01:39As we navigate our way through all the information that's coming at us 24-7.

01:43You know viewers respond to feelings. They want something to be outraged about.

01:48Muncy actually believes to his core if people sit at a table that they can get things done.

01:54That they can talk to one another.

01:56I think he really does believe that.

01:57The madness is really examining the climate that we're in right now and trying to tell us to think about that.

02:03Who sows those seeds of disinformation? Who's puppeteering all of this?

02:07That's why Muncy is going through different sects of society to find out what's going on.

02:12What's important is the notion of how to declutter in order to find out what you care about amidst it all.

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