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Airdate: Maniac

Bold new drama with Emma Stone & Jonah Hill is directed by True Detective's Cary Joji Fukunaka.

Netflix has released a very trippy trailer for its upcoming drama Maniac starring Emma Stone, Jonah Hill, Justin Theroux and Sally Field.

Created by Patrick Somerville and it is notably directed by Cary Joji Fukunaka (True Detective).

It premieres Friday September 21 on Netflix.

Set in a world somewhat like our world, in a time quite similar to our time, 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. 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 (Justin Theroux), 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.

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