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Maniac

Maniac

Description: Annie Landsberg and Owen Milgrim are two strangers who are drawn to the late stages of a mysterious pharmaceutical trial. Each has a different reason for participating in the experiment -- she is disaffected and aimless, fixated on broken relationships with her mother and sister, while he has struggled throughout his life with a disputed diagnosis of schizophrenia. The radical treatment, using pills that the inventor claims can repair anything about the mind, draws Annie, Owen and 10 other subjects into a three-day drug trial that they're told will permanently solve all of their problems, with no complications or side effects. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.
Genre: Drama
Year Released: 2014
Number of seasons: 1
Number of episodes: 10
First episode air date: May 6, 2014
Writers: Cary Joji Fukunaga, Patrick Somerville, Amelia Gray, Nick Cuse, Mauricio Katz, Danielle Henderson, Caroline Williams
Nominations: Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Mini-Series & Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television, MORE
Genres: Comedy-drama, Dark comedy, Psychological Fiction, Science Fiction
Program Creators: Cary Joji Fukunaga, Patrick Somerville
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