Netflix's 'Maniac' has a surprisingly simple message at its core

Maniac looked like it was going to be A Lot. The first trailer for the Netflix original made it seem like a Black Mirror–style technological dreamscape, with dubious medical practice and high fantasy sequences woven together in the kind of narrative that spins off dozens of thinkpieces with headlines like “What Is Even Going On In Maniac” and “The Maniac Finale, Explained.”

It’s not one of those shows at all. 

Yes, technically there is medical malpractice and pseudo-reductive futuristic setting, as well as trippy subplots that take place across a number of time periods and fantastical settings, but to its credit Maniac is 100% not out to blow people’s minds with its weirdness. It wants you to enjoy the weirdness as a means to a very simple endManiac wants you to make a friend.  Read more…

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