Maniac

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Title: Maniac

Genre: Comedy, Drama

First aired: 2018-09-21

Creator: Patrick Somerville

Cast: Emma Stone, Jonah Hill, Sally Field, Justin Theroux, Sonoya Mizuno

Overview: Two strangers find themselves caught up in a mind-bending pharmaceutical trial gone awry.
 
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Hot as fuck? She has fish eyes, pasty skin, and a smoker's voice all the time.
 
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Three thoughts so far:

1) This show is weird but I can't stop watching it.
2) Jonah Hill is terrible at accents.
3) The headsets are made of copper CPU cooler heatsinks.
 
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I've enjoyed the first few episodes so far. The visual style is great. It's also nice to see Gollum getting more work, even if he has to play a blonde.

Edit: Finished it and it was great. It's charming, funny, visually striking, creative, well written, and has a great cast that brings it home. Very much worth watching.
 
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This show is strange. Good strange. Unique. But I did notice the cpu heatpipe heatsink on that one headset. Interesting use of materials. Little bit of HAL 9000. Little bit of Matrix. Would suggest.
 
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I loved this, it sort of had a Akira meets Legion art style to it. I have to wonder how much of it was inspired by Psychedelics due to it's use of hallucinating drugs and a guide (in this case a computer) to work through your pain and suffering to free you from it. I'm really enjoying the growing number of really weird/beautiful but some how workable shows that have been coming out lately.. this definitely reminded me of American Gods/Legion.
 
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Justin Theroux was fucking great. Jonah Hill was good and Emma Stone was fine. Sally Field was pretty fucking good for her small part. About the ending:

I don't know what it was. I think people at face value will just be like "oh yay they're happy" and other people will realize it's exactly as Owen predicted. The two of them, escaping trouble in a car, happy as friends. Does that mean it's still in his mind? Is he precog? Who knows. I'm sure it's probably the first thing, but I think there's definitely ambiguity if you look closely.
 
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Boring, couldn't make me look up from my iPad long enough to follow what was going on. Boring to look at and boring to listen to.

Sad how many shows I judge by whether or not they are able to distract me from IiPadding.
 
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On episode 6 so far. I feel like this series is going to take a second watch through to fully "get," but I'm not sure I'll actually WANT to watch it again once I reach the end. Tho I am enjoying it to an extent.
 
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Ending would have been much better if a semi had come down the road and smashed them both flat.
 
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It's quirky and interesting and I enjoyed it a lot.

Horrible title though. Legit bad. I would go so far as to say the title is the worst part of it.
 
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TBT-TheBigToe said:
Boring, couldn't make me look up from my iPad long enough to follow what was going on. Boring to look at and boring to listen to.
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Do you tend to dislike most sci-fi films that aren't action oriented (e.g. Moon), or was it something specific about this one you think?
 
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