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Series Details & Credits
| Netflix | Release Date: September 21, 2018 |
Summary:
Jonah Hill and Emma Stone undergo a drug trial that goes awry in this adaptation of a Norwegian comedy series of the same name.
Genre(s):
Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction
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Positive:
18
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
RogerEbert.com
Sep 20, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Netflix’s Maniac is a fascinating, brilliant show, and one of my favorites of 2018. We should expect no less from the creative voices behind “The Leftovers” and “True Detective,” but this show still found a way to surprise me episode after episode. ... Maniac plays with genre and dramatic expectations to gain insight into the human condition in ways that other programs can’t touch.
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Sep 20, 2018
Sep 19, 2018
Sep 13, 2018
Season 1 Review:
There’s a fusion here between modern melancholia and those romps where potential lovers keep encountering one another in skips through time, which sounds tedious but works somewhat splendidly, once the series gets going. ... Hill and Stone are both terrifically capable at conveying the series’s many moods, while Theroux looks especially grateful to be hamming it up after so much deeply-furrowed frowning in “The Leftovers.”
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Sep 20, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Maniac is inventive and well-paced enough (the episodes clock in at a welcome 40 minutes or less) to breeze past its missteps. ... In an age of desiccated puzzle-stories, Maniac puts emotion first, even at the risk of sentimentality. It’s a heart-shaped Rubik’s Cube, a funny, consistently surprising fable of broken machines trying to reassemble themselves.
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Sep 21, 2018
Sep 20, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Promising themes dissolve, episode by episode, into something more like forced quirkiness, revealing a buried conventionality, the curse of way too much cool-looking TV. ... Even an unreal world needs characters who make sense, particularly in a series that is as gooily devoted to exploring those characters’ inner lives as Maniac turns out to be. On this level, the show is half-baked and inconsistent.
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May 14, 2019
Excellent reality bending narrative, brilliantly acted, humourously written, expertly directed. Near thing on Netflix, on par with Black Mirror.
4 of 4 users found this helpful40
Jul 6, 2022
Very quirky, very left-field, and at times hard to understand (maybe even hard work), this is nevertheless one of the most intelligent and heartfelt productions I have ever seen. Funny and beautiful and sad despite the insanity of the plot. Worth watching again.
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Jul 4, 2021
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Jan 30, 2021
1 of 1 users found this helpful10
May 4, 2020
2 of 2 users found this helpful20
Nov 25, 2021
Incredibly interesting but dare I say not very fun at all. Unless you actually read that the series is supposed to be a dark comedy as well as drama not a lot of the jokes land and their weirdness can be attributed to the "wackiness" of the characters.
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Jul 25, 2019
I'm not sure which is more engrossing: Waiting 40 minutes in line at the bank or Maniac. I'm leaning toward the line.
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