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What to Watch This Weekend: Maniac

What to Watch This Weekend: Maniac

With cable, Netflix, and internet options, finding the best thing to watch during your downtime is difficult. Instead of flipping through menus all weekend and settling on nothing, turn to What to Watch This Weekend, a series in which we give you our pick for the best new show or movie available.

Netflix landed a star-studded cast for its new Original series Maniac. Emma Stone, Jonah Hill, and Justin Theroux star in the dark comedy from creator Patrick Somerville and director Cary Fukunaga (True Detective… the good season). The show focuses on Annie Landsberg (Stone) and Owen Milgrim (Hill), two strangers who meet at a bizarre pharmaceutical trial for a series of drugs designed to improve anything wrong with the mind. No complications. No side-effects. What could possibly go wrong? The series hits Netflix today. Link