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The Madness is Netflix's newest addition to its set of conspiracy thriller movies, created by American filmmaker Stephen Belber. Writer V.J. Boyd and Belber serve as the showrunners and executive producers of the series. The Madness is an eight-episode miniseries, released on Netflix on November 28, 2024.
Starring Colman Domingo, the story of the series revolves around an eminent media pundit named Muncie Daniels, who is wrongly defamed for the murder of an influential person with connections to the crime world.
In the initial episodes, viewers can see Muncie taking a retreat from his media life. He finds shelter in a cabin in the Poconos mountains with the intention of writing a book.
He meets a friendly truck driver as his neighbor but goes into hysteria upon finding him brutally murdered. He finds out that the murdered person was Mark Simon, a popular blogger with five million followers.
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Mark Simon was the person who was known as Brother 14 by his followers on the internet. Canadian actor Tahmoh Penikett plays the role of Mark Simon in The Madness.
Spoiler Alert: This article contains spoilers for the series.
How the character of Mark Simon influences the storyline of The Madness
After watching all the episodes of The Madness, viewers realize that Muncie is just a normal person who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Mark Simon was a racialist who was infamous for spreading his ideology to his followers over the internet by the name of Brother 14. He was the person behind leading a white extremist group known as The Forge.
Mark was getting paid by corrupt bureaucrats from Revitalize to influence his followers to show support for their personal candidates for the elections, to get votes, and to spread their agenda.
However, a month before his death, Mark decides to go against the organization. Mark is killed by Don Sloss Jr. and Ant, who were paid by Revitalize to eliminate any opposition that could potentially harm their reputation.
After Muncie accidentally discovers Marks's dead body, the assassinations attempt to kill him to clear the leaving evidence. Lucie is Mark Simon's ex-wife, who is primarily responsible for introducing Muncie to the entire conspiracy, and Rodney Kraintz is the person behind all the crimes. Muncie successfully kills both of the assassins, Ant and Don Sloss Jr.
Finally, Lucie informs Bobby Woods, a member of The Forge, about Rodney Kraintz. This becomes the primary reason Bobby escapes the FBI and ends up killing the central antagonist of the story. Kraintz's death provides redemption not just to Muncie but also to Lucie herself.
Who is the actor behind Mark Simon in The Madness?
Born in Whitehorse, Yukon, Tahmoh Penikett is a Canadian actor, best known for playing the role of Karl Agathon in the 2004 science fiction series Battlestar Galactica. Penikett started his career with small screen appearances across television series, including Stargate SG-1 season 6: Unnatural Selection in 2002 and Cold Squad between 2004-2005.
Penikett received recognition for his appearances in works including Smallville (2001), Battlestar Galactica (2004), Supernatural (2005), Dollhouse (2009), Man of Steel (2013), and 2 Hearts (2020).
Some of the recent roles done by Penikett are in Sheltering Season (2022), Fire Country (2022), Jason (2024), and The Killer Inside: The Ruth Finley Story (2024).
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