Created by Stephen Belber (Tape, Drifting Elegant), this gripping thriller explores race relations, social and mainstream media, wealth distribution, big tech, political influence, and ultimately conspiracy. Colman Domingo stars as Muncie Daniels, an on-the-rise CNN pundit on the cusp of getting his own show. He travels to a rented cabin in the Poconos to get away from the media circus and begin working on a book, but he stumbles upon a murder, for which he’s now being framed.
Muncie is a complicated character who’s struggling to reconnect with his ideals as well as his estranged family: wife Elena (Marsha Stephanie Blake), son Demetrius (Thaddeus J. Mixson), and daughter from a previous relationship, Kallie (Gabrielle Graham). As the noose around his frame job tightens, his family is endangered. Of the multiple law enforcement agencies with Muncie in their crosshairs, only idealistic but irreverent FBI Agent Franco Quinones (John Ortiz) seems willing to hear him out.
Throw in a huge tech company with its eyes set on controlling politicians, a white supremacist organization called The Forge, and a gun-fanatic libertarian/antifa organization called Profane Discord, and you have a lot of players up against one smart, resourceful, but outnumbered man. (eight 43- to 58-min. episodes)
—Glen Starkey
This article appears in Jan 2-12, 2025.