Last week we got our first teaser for Netflix's Maniac starring Jonah Hill and Emma Stone, but now a full trailer for the limited series has made its way online, and it looks incredibly interesting.
"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. Neither of their lives have turned out quite right, and the promise of a new, radical kind of pharmaceutical treatment—a sequence of pills its inventor, Dr. James K. Mantleray, claims can repair anything about the mind, be it mental illness or heartbreak—draws them and ten other strangers to the facilities of Neberdine Pharmaceutical and Biotech for a three-day drug 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.
The series comes from Cary Fukunaga who is probably best known for his work on True Detective. Besides that, he also provided the script for last year's IT reboot. Admittedly, I though Maniac was going to be a film, but I'm just as satisfied to see that it's actually a limited series.
Besides Hill and Stone, the series also promises an appearance from Justin Theroux (The Leftovers). You'll also recognize Academy Award Winner Sally Field.
Though the teaser didn't really give us any information on this series, this full trailer now gives us an idea on what kind of show to expect with Maniac. I have to say, it looks interesting, and judging by how great Hill and Stone are as actors, they'll no doubt give us some rock solid performances.
Maniac premieres on Netflix Sept. 21.
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