Maniac: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Set in a world somewhat like our world, in a time quite similar to our time, Maniac 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.

Series details

• Title: Maniac
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama, Comedy, Science-Fiction
• Premiere date: 2018-09-21
• Final broadcast date listed: 2018-09-21
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: Netflix
• Typical episode runtime: 39 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 6.7/10
• TVMaze ID: 14657
• IMDb ID: tt5580146
• TVDB ID: 350864

Cast and credited roles

• Sonoya Mizuno — Dr. Azumi Fujita
• Emma Stone — Annie Landsberg
• Jonah Hill — Owen Milgrim
• Justin Theroux — Dr. James K. Mantleray
• Sally Field — Dr. Greta Mantleray
• Gabriel Byrne — Porter Milgrim
• Sally Field — Gertie Neberdine

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2018-09-21; final listed air date 2018-09-21; episode order: 10.

Source and licence

Adapted from Maniac on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.