TV series
Maniac
Overview
Two strangers are drawn to a mysterious pharmaceutical trial that will, they're assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently. Things do not go as planned.
Details
- First air date
- 2018-09-21
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 10 episodes
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Network
- Netflix
- Production
- Anonymous Content, Paramount Television Studios
- Country
- US
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Emma Stone as Annie Landsberg
- Jonah Hill as Owen Milgrim
- Sonoya Mizuno as Dr. Azumi Fujita
- Justin Theroux as Dr. James K. Mantleray
- Sally Field as Dr. Greta Mantleray
- Kathleen Choe as 3
- Danny Hoch as 5
- James Monroe Iglehart as Carl
- Dai Ishiguro as Head Control Tech
- Allyce Beasley as 11
- Stephen Hill as 7
- Sejal Shah as First Medical Tech
Creators and crew
- Patrick Somerville - Creator
- Cary Joji Fukunaga - Creator
- Doug Wald - Executive Producer
- Jonah Hill - Executive Producer
- Emma Stone - Executive Producer
- Espen Huseby - Executive Producer
Episodes
Episode 1: The Chosen One!
Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Owen is the black sheep of the wealthy Milgrim clan. After losing his job, he enrolls in an experimental drug trial.
Episode 2: Windmills
When her pilfered stash of pills runs out, troubled Annie tries to quit -- but ends up blackmailing her way into the Neberdine study.
Episode 3: Having a Day
Muramoto notices irregularities in Annie and Owen's data. He questions Owen, who recalls the worst night of his life: his brother's engagement party.
Episode 4: Furs by Sebastian
After taking the B pill, Annie and Owen find themselves on 1980s Long Island entangled in a strange caper involving a lemur.
Episode 5: Exactly Like You
Annie and Owen are Arlie and Ollie, grifters attending a séance at the mysterious Neberdine mansion in the 1940s.
Episode 6: Larger Structural Issues
Azumi tells James the whole truth about the study's snags and urges him to call his estranged mother, an esteemed therapist.
Episode 7: Ceci N'est Pas Une Drill
Owen and Annie take the C pill. No longer connected, he belongs to a Mafia family, and she's a medieval guide hired by an ailing elf princess.
Episode 8: The Lake of the Clouds
Annia and Ellia continue their quest, and Owen's mafioso father pressures him to protect the family. Greta counsels a bereaved Gertie.
Episode 9: Utangatta
Owen and Annie meet again as a disgraced Icelandic spy and a CIA operative who helps him. Greta implores James to shut down the trial.
Episode 10: Option C
After the subjects are discharged, James and Azumi face Neberdine's CEO. Owen and Annie part ways -- until a startling headline sparks a reunion.
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