“In one episode late in Netflix’s latest TV series, movie star Emma Stone plays a drunken Elven ranger. In the next episode, movie star Jonah Hill plays a gimlet-drinking dunce named “Snorri” who refers to himself in the third person in a bad Icelandic accent.
“This will all make more sense when you watch Maniac. Sort of.
“The Netflix miniseries, out today (Sept. 21), takes much of what you have learned to expect from TV and launches it into the ether.
“Episode lengths fluctuate wildly between about 25 and 45 minutes.
“The genre veers from sci-fi to dark comedy to family drama, but it wouldn’t be accurate to call it just one, or even two, of these.”
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