You can't really get much from this teaser, beyond the fact that it stars Jonah Hill and Emma Stone, will likely look amazing and weird, and that it's directed by Cary Fukunaga of 'True Detective' fame.
Netflix's latest awards-friendly miniseries is based on a Norwegian TV series of the same that sees two people - Stone and Hill, obviously - in the final stages of a pharmaceutical trial that promises to cure any and all mental illness with the help of a pill that's been created by Justin Theroux.
At least, that's what we were able to glean from the official synopsis. Have a read and see what you can make of it yourself, because it's... well, nuts.
"Set in a world somewhat like our world, in a time quite similar to our time, “Maniac” tells the stories of Annie Landsberg (Emma Stone) and Owen Milgrim (Jonah Hill), two strangers drawn to the late stages of a mysterious pharmaceutical trial, each for their own reasons. Annie’s disaffected and aimless, fixated on broken relationships with her mother and her sister; Owen, the fifth son of wealthy New York industrialists, has struggled his whole life with a disputed diagnosis of schizophrenia."
"Neither of their lives has turned out quite right, and the promise of a new, radical kind of pharmaceutical treatment—a sequence of pills its inventor, Dr. James K. Mantleray (Justin Theroux), claims can repair anything about the mind, be it mental illness or heartbreak—draws them and 10 other strangers to the facilities of Neberdine Pharmaceutical and Biotech for a three-day drug 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."
The ten-episode miniseries will land on Netflix on September 21st. Here's the teaser. Again, not a clue but it looks great.