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Maniac is an American black psychological comedy drama television miniseries that premiered on Netflix on September 21, 2018, after being announced in 2016.
With Emma Stone, Jonah Hill, Sonoya Mizuno, Justin Theroux. Two strangers are drawn to a mysterious pharmaceutical trial for a drug that they're assured will, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, permanently solve all of their problems. Things do not go as planned.
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- 2018-09-21
- Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
- 39
- So How Did That Process Begin?
- How Would You Describe The Tone of The Show?
- What Particular Issues Did Netflix have?
- Is Maniac Set in Our time?
- So Maniac, Very Simply, Is About Human Connection?
Fukunaga: When Patrick and I first met, both of us really felt strongly that setting the story in a mental hospital would not be a smart choice. We wanted to be compassionate to mental illness, and not make that the butt of the joke. Patrick Somerville:On a very practical level too, we had two stars, and that kind of dynamic between therapist and p...
Fukunaga:It’s a fluid tone. I’ve always appreciated in Korean cinema, and more recently in French cinema, the idea that you can shift gears in tone and the audience will stay with you. Obviously, Patrick is a novelist, and in novels you have a little more liberty to make those shifts from chapter to chapter – but I think in films and television aud...
Fukunaga:There was a commercial thing [in the show]... Mockumentary is difficult, because it’s so niche. So, if it thinks you’re doing something that’s mockumentary-like, it’s really narrowing the field. Somerville:I think breaking the fourth wall is something they’re not sure they... Fukunaga:...'Meta' is not something the algorithm understands. B...
Somerville:It’s definitely now; I don’t know why people keep saying it's the future. To me it’s our zeitgeist now, and it’s a different history of technology. It’s sort of now, but not now. Somewhere along the line something changed. Fukunaga:I’ve always loved the idea of the multiverse and parallel realities, and the idea that we’re all living in ...
Somerville:I think that was always the story. Maniac is the story of two people who don’t know each other at the beginning of the series walking out with an authentic relationship at the end of the series. If you’re telling that story, I think you’re also telling a whole bunch of other stories: about healing; about what is therapy; what is the mind...
Maniac enthralls with its dazzling visuals, adventurous narrative, and striking performances from both Emma Stone and Jonah Hill. Read Critics Reviews
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- Emma Stone
- Cary Joji Fukunaga
- September 21, 2018
Maniac. 2018 | Maturity Rating:TV-MA | 1 Season | Drama. Two struggling strangers connect during a mind-bending pharmaceutical trial involving a doctor with mother issues and an emotionally complex computer. Starring:Emma Stone, Jonah Hill, Justin Theroux. Creators:Patrick Somerville. Watch all you want. Join Now.
Sep 29, 2018 · Cary Fukunaga, Patrick Somerville, Emma Stone, and Justin Theroux explain the trippy alternate universe of the Netflix series.
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In one of the many, many fantasy sequences in Netflix's new limited series Maniac, pharmaceutical trial participants Owen (Jonah Hill) and Annie (Emma Stone) find themselves in a magician's...
