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Maniac

Created by Cary Joji Fukunaga, Patrick Somerville

Netflix2018 41 pages

Two strangers are drawn to a mysterious pharmaceutical 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.

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