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

Like the paranoid notions that drive their protagonists, conspiracy thrillers are constantly shifting. The genre is remarkably malleable; the '60s, '70s, and '80s produced some of the form's best -- "The Manchurian Candidate,

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,