By The Netflix content factory is chugging away releasing a new documentary, drama or series seemingly every day now day. What's less clear is how much of it is actually worth watching.
The latest TV series they've announced, though, sounds promising thanks to the involvement of True Detective and Beasts of No Nation director Cary Fukunaga.
Starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, Maniac is the story of two strangers who find themselves caught up in a mind-bending pharmaceutical trial gone awry.
Though it looks like science fiction, the series is described as a 'dark psychological drama' and the first images look straight out of an episode of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror. Initial images show Stone and Hill's characters using "the technological device used to bring patients into their dream world."
Deadline reports, "The anticipated black comedy follows two strangers who find themselves caught up in a mind-bending pharmaceutical trial gone awry. Also among the cast are Sally Field, Justin Theroux, Julia Garner and Jemima Kirke."
"Written by Patrick Somerville and based on the 2014 Norwegian series, 10 episode-Maniac is produced by Paramount TV and Anonymous Content," they add.
There's no release date as of yet but the show is expected to be added to Netflix later this year.
