The Madness is currently the #1 show on Netflix’s Top 10 list, and has been for quite some time. Despite being billed as a limited series, as tends to happen with many popular miniseries, questions are now being raised about whether it might get a season 2 after all.
Netflix has not made a decision on this yet, which is not surprising given how close to release we still are, and the show is still on top so we don’t even know how long that run might go. But its star, Colman Domingo, is being very vocal about wanting to return for season 2 as Muncie Daniels for more conspiracy-laden adventures.
While he’s said things like this elsewhere, a new interview with THR sheds further light on this possibility. Here’s what he said when asked about “Madness 2” aka The Madness season 2. Mild ending spoilers follow:
“I hope so. Madness is a show I really enjoyed. I think there’s more story for Muncie and his family. I think now that they’ve had all these sort of huge life lessons, I’d be interested to take them out in the world and make them these modern-day, everyday superheroes who are just coming together as a family to work on things that affect the world or affect some change in some way. I feel like we need to take them to Europe and see what happens with this family.”
So, Muncie and his family survive season 1, and as such there’s more there to work with, despite really almost every other cast member dying over the course of the season. There was a similar interview with showrunners VJ Boyd and Stephen Belber, and either season 2 did not come up, or it was edited out. It does seem a little strange if they weren’t asked about the possibility.
The other indicator that this may happen is just how well this show is doing. It doesn’t have crazy high review scores or anything. It has a decent enough 74% from critics but a not-great 47% from viewers. Despite politics factoring in heavily into the show, most of the negative reviews from fans are not politics-minded, and they simply don’t like the pacing, the answers to the mysteries or sometimes the acting and writing. It’s a little surprising, given that enough word of mouth has spread to keep The Madness on top in a very competitive streaming landscape. Being #1 on Netflix’s top 10 list means you are almost certainly the most-watched series in the country at that time.
It feels like season 2 is almost an inevitability here with this kind of viewership and Domingo being fully on board with returning, even in the wake of his Oscar nomination and his new talks with Marvel as potentially joining the MCU in some role. We’ll see where this all leads.
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