Option C
- Episode aired Sep 21, 2018
- TV-MA
- 37m
After the subjects are discharged, James and Azumi face Neberdine's CEO. Owen and Annie part ways -- until a startling headline sparks a reunion.After the subjects are discharged, James and Azumi face Neberdine's CEO. Owen and Annie part ways -- until a startling headline sparks a reunion.After the subjects are discharged, James and Azumi face Neberdine's CEO. Owen and Annie part ways -- until a startling headline sparks a reunion.
- Prosecutor
- (as Lauren Banks)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaOn the desk at 12:40 you can clearly see a yellow coffee mug. The label reads: BIG HUG MUG. This is the same mug used by Rustin Cohle during his interrogation scenes of True Detective season 1, which was also directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga.
- GoofsThe position of the Big Hug Mug changes between two quick shots - one where you can't see the writing on the mug & one where you clearly can.
- Quotes
Owen Milgrim: I'm afraid
Annie Landsberg: Of what?
Owen Milgrim: Option B. Annie, the same thing happens every time. I meet someone, get close to someone, I mess it up. I'm gonna get frustrated one day and yell at you out of nowhere over something insignificant I'm fixated on. And you'll stop calling back, you'll change your number and it'll break my heart. It's just easier if you're not real.
Annie Landsberg: But I am real. You know me. You're braver than this Owen, and I will never do that to you. Never.
- ConnectionsReferences True Detective (2014)
Regardless how this or other descriptions sounds, Maniac is not Twin Peaks. The Matrix, or anything else like that - indeed it is not like anything I have seen before. I'm not entirely sure that it knows what it is itself, but it has more enough energy about it to carry it across to the point where it starts to mean something. In the final few episodes of this season there is a lot of heart and emotion, and it all makes sense even if the connection to the previous episodes is not as strong as I'd have liked it to be. Essentially we have themes that have impacted on the main characters, played out or referenced in different ways through various fantasy sequences. These sequences are mostly amusing, engaging, or just weird enough to hold the attention, but they are not entirely successful as they don't always keep to that narrative core in the emotional way that works best. The downside of this is that the themes feel too obvious in ow they are played out for too much of the season, even if it does set it up and pull it out well.
The cast and director are a big part of this working, because it is the overall writing that doesn't manage to bring it off. The direction and art direction sell the tone and draw the best from all the components. The performances 'get' what is trying to be done, and they do it even if the show itself doesn't always manage it. Hill and Stone in particular go with it when it is silly, but yet deliver when it finds its heart. Theroux and Field are just as good and given solid material in the latter stages. I loved Mizuno though - such an 'oddity' of a character but yet she finds and keeps the person in there.
I do wish it had been more linked, smart, and funny, as it often suggested it was, but I was engaged throughout. The disconnected moments all offer something, and in the end it comes to an emotive and satisfying conclusion. Divisive for sure, but I found the creativity of the weaker aspects made me go with it, and it satisfied in the end.
- bob the moo
- Jun 2, 2019
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Filming locations
- Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, 400 Westchester Ave, West Harrison, New York, USA(Horton Psychiatric Facility)
- Production companies
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- Runtime37 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1