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Sep 23, 2018 · The end of Netflix’s genre-hopping epic Maniac, starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, is really about people struggling to understand and heal themselves in an abusive world.
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- Owen’s Last Name Is Important
- The Milgram Family Created The Poop Bots
- Annie Actually Gave Owen The Rubik’s Cube
- Annie’s Obsession with Donquixote
- “Not Much of A Difference, Authority-Wise”
- Greta’s Influence Presaged
- Nines and Ones Everywhere
- The Symbol of The Moon
- Owen Turning Into A Hawk Is A Callback
- We Saw Snorri in The First Episode
Owen’s last name is Milgram, likely a nod to social psychologist Stanley Milgram’s controversial experimenton obedience. Milgram, fascinated by the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann, wanted to examine the plausibility of Eichmann’s excuse that he and his fellow Nazis were just “following orders.” So he formulated an experiment to test peop...
When Annie steals change from a newspaper kiosk at the beginning of episode one, we see a headline that confirms the Milgrams made their fortune creating the dog poop cleaning robots. A headline reads, “Bladdergate: Milgram Poop Bot Empire in Peril,” and shows pictures of all five brothers, including Owen. The “bladdergate” reference points to the ...
Throughout the show, Owen constantly plays with a Rubik’s Cube. Director Cary Fukunaga told TIMEthat Owen’s fiddling with the toy has a deeper meaning. “It seems incomprehensible to someone who doesn’t know how it works, and if you do know how it works you can solve it in seconds,” Fukunaga says. “Owen is a lonely person who wants to be a hero of h...
Annie swears to finally read Don Quixote once she beats her addiction in the second episode. The book appears again in episode five as Annie and Owen search for the secret chapter of Don Quixoteinside a mansion during a seance. Annie later explains that her sister read Don Quixotewhen she was 12, and their dad used to bring that fact up as proof of...
We first hear a security guard say this to Annie when she takes Don Quixotefrom the pile of trash in episode one. “Are you a cop?” she asks. “Not much difference, authority-wise,” he replies. Annie then drops that phrase into one of her hallucinations: In episode four, the Fish and Wildlife investigator says the same thing to the fur salesman who c...
The mother of Dr. James K. Mantleray (Justin Theroux), Dr. Greta Mantleray (played by Sally Field), looms large over the story long before she actually appears in the series. Owen is reading her book, No Fix, Just Bliss, in the first episode. And of course, James seems to have named the computer behind his experimental trials after his mother: GRTA...
Annie and Owen are subjects number nine and number one in the experiment. In their hallucinations, nines and ones crop up over and over again. The license plate on their car is O19 91A during the lemur hallucination in episode four. In episode five, Owen pulls a 9 of hearts during a magic trick before the seance. In episode seven, Owen hallucinates...
Owen wears a Warren Moon jersey as a Long Island husband in episode four. Multiple characters reference the full moon during the seance in episode five. Annie and her sister Ellie (Julia Garner) follow the “invisible moon” as elves (well, half-elves) in episode eight. The full moon is said to make people go crazy. Perhaps that old wive’s tale influ...
This choice in the final hallucination may seem totally bizarre, but remember that in the first episode, Owen’s brothers’ mocked him for nursing an injured hawk back to health. The hawk was able to take vengeance on Jed’s pet in a way that Owen was never able to fight back against Jed himself. So the animal could represent freedom to Owen. A bonus ...
Owen sees the name “Snorri” in an ad for Icelandic Fish in the first episode, and plays a man named Snorri in the ninth episode. (N.B. The ad for Snorri was juxtaposed with the tagline, “If you could eat like the chosen one.” And Snorri does, indeed, end up saving the world with his Rubik’s cube prowess.)
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Sep 25, 2018 · At the core of Maniac is the idea that living is difficult. The show revolves around a human trial for a three-pill regimen that “cures” humans of mental...
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Sep 22, 2018 · As Dr. Mantleray and Dr. Fujita (Sonoya Mizuno) try to stop GRTA from the lab, Owen and Annie look for a way to stop her from inside their own minds. Here's how the experiment ends - and what happens afterwards. This Page: The End and Aftermath Of The Drug Trial. Page 2: Option C, and the Mid-Credits Scene.
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Sep 24, 2018 · ‘Maniac’ Showrunner Explains Why There Won’t be a Season 2. 'Maniac' showrunner Patrick Somerville talks with The Hollywood Reporter about the ending of Netflix's Emma Stone and...
Sep 24, 2018 · Features. Maniac Ending Explained. We explore the surrealist ending and overarching themes of Netflix's Maniac, the beautiful art piece starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill. By David Crow...
Sep 28, 2018 · Maniac Ending Explained: Stopping the Worry and Loving the Mind. The 'Maniac' Finale or: "How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love My Flawed Mind" By Emma Fraser....
