One Sentence TV Review // Maniac (2018)

MANIAC tells the stories of Annie Landsberg (Emma Stone) and Owen Milgrim (Jonah Hill), two strangers drawn to the late stages of a mysterious pharmaceutical trial. Things do not go as planned. A Netflix Limited Series from Cary Joji Fukunaga. MANIAC arrives September 21.

Based on the 2015

Norwegian show

of the

same name,

director Cary Fukunaga

and writer

Patrick Somerville’s

Maniac

takes a surreal

step inside

a modified dreamland

through a

trio of pills,

resulting in

something like

if Inception

included more

psychedelics, more

instability, and more

unique characters.