Television

Maniac 2018

Created by Patrick Somerville, Cary Joji Fukunaga

  • Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
  • 1 season
  • 10 episodes
  • Ended
  • TV-MA

The mind can be solved.

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.

ComedyDramaSci-Fi & Fantasyschizophreniacomputersurrealismdark comedypsychiatric hospitalminiseriesmental disordersdrug trialpsychedelic drugmother son relationshipbrother brother relationshipscience fictionNetflix

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