Maniac: A review

Maniac

Set in the sixties New York where there are no cell phones and drugs run in the streets, Maniac introduces you to a psychotic reality where suddenly you could see a purple koala playing chess in a park.

Directed by the talented Cary Joji Fukunaga, known for the television series True Detective.
When producer Michael Sugar bought the rights to the Maniac adaptation, he offered it to Fukunaga, who accepted because he wanted to do something that would allow him to experiment with various genres, such as adventure, suspense and fantasy.

He looked for Patrick Somerville, novelist and also writer and producer of The Leftovers on HBO, and together they got rid of practically all the original concept. Maniac is inspired, very vaguely, in a Norwegian absurdist series with the same name.

The original takes place inside a psychiatric hospital and the main character is Espen, a possibly schizophrenic patient who imagines his daily life with fanciful lives as a cowboy, war hero and a spy.

It changed the plot of the story so much that now Espen is two characters, Annie (Emma Stone) an addict with depression and tormented by her past, and Owen (Johan Hill) fifth child of a rich family that deals with chronic depression and schizophrenia.

Both enter a test of a new type of radical pharmaceutical treatment that tries to cure their emotional pain and those of the whole world. Can you imagine a world without mental health problems?

The test consists of three pills, A (Agonia) B (Behavorial) and C (Confrontation), each one takes the subject to mental states where they have to face their deepest traumas.

For some reason, when they are under the influence of the pills, the protagonists find each other in their minds, living different scenarios and surpassing them together. Each of their trips are a masterpiece densely detailed in layers, psychotic and moving.

If you have not yet seen Maniac, the surrealistic psychological drama/comedy series, I urge you to go to Netflix and start watching this wonderful show of only 10 episodes. Enough to make you obsessed.

Thanks for reading Steemit, this was my review of Maniac, a show that I enjoyed immensely.

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