Limited series Maniac will premiere on Netflix UK on Friday September 21st, it has been announced.
Maniac is set in a world somewhat like our world, in a time quite similar to our time. It tells the stories of Annie Landsberg and Owen Milgrim, 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.
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 limited series, which was created by Patrick Somerville and directed by Cary Fukunaga, stars Emma Stone, Jonah Hill and Justin Theroux.
Check out the date announcement trailer below:
TVWise’s UK Premiere Dates page has been updated with this new information.
