Character Relationship Map: Madtown

Characters

• Denny Briggs (played by Milo Ventimiglia) — protagonist

  Denny Briggs is the central character, a nervous newcomer to stand-up comedy who is given only seven minutes at a club. He also starts work at a restaurant, where an awkward mistake exposes a family’s...

• Lloyd Zane Miller (played by John Billingsley) — supporting
• Linda Miller (played by Bonita Friedericy) — supporting

  Linda Miller is connected to Mandel’s personal history rather than directly to Denny Briggs’s immediate storyline. Mandel says that after losing his family, he eventually found happiness with Linda Mi...

• Madison Briggs (played by Amanda Aday) — supporting

  Madison Briggs is Denny Briggs’s sister and shares his history of poverty, neglect, hostility, and threats at home. After a fight at school and their parents’ refusal to listen, she retrieved a gun in...

• Young Madison (played by Kinsley Funari) — minor

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Madison Briggs → Young Madison (Temporal Past Self)

  The story shifts between present-day Madison Briggs and testimony about the childhood period in which Madison defended herself and retrieved a gun.

• Denny Briggs → Young Madison (Family Childhood Siblings)

  The childhood testimony describes Denny Briggs and his sister facing abuse together, while Young Madison is the listed childhood version of Madison Br...

• Lloyd Zane Miller → Linda Miller (Romantic Spouse)

  Lloyd's personal story says that after losing his family, he eventually found happiness with Linda Miller.

• Denny Briggs → Lloyd Zane Miller (Professional Supervisor And Employee)

  At the restaurant, Denny Briggs works a first shift while the supervisor calms a customer dispute and later supports him with food and encouragement.

• Denny Briggs → Madison Briggs (Family Brother And Sister)

  The testimony explicitly discusses Denny Briggs and his sister, Madison Briggs, as children living through poverty, neglect, and threats from their fa...

Story Analysis

Denny Briggs struggles between public performance, painful family history, workplace honesty, and Madison's demand for escape.

Plot Progression

1. Seven Minutes of Fear
2. The Weight of Childhood
3. Chicago or Staying
4. Honesty Behind the Counter
5. An Unfinished Departure