It takes a special kind of TV series to draw Oscar winners and A-list actors to the small screen, but once you watch the trailer for Maniac you’re sure to see why so many Hollywooders were lining up to star in it.
Just be warned, it will also mess with your mind just a little bit.
The Netflix limited series is a dark comedy set in a world somewhat like ours, but with a few twists.
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, each for their own reasons.
Annie’s disaffected and aimless, fixated on broken relationships with her mother and her sister; Owen, the fifth son of wealthy New York industrialists, has struggled his whole life with a disputed diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Can you make it through the trailer for Maniac without your eyes twitching?
Neither of their lives have turned out quite right and so they are both drawn to the promise of a new, radical kind of pharmaceutical treatment.
The treatment involves a sequence of pills its inventor Dr. James K. Mantleray (Justin Theroux), claims can repair anything about the mind, be it mental illness or heartbreak.
