Maniac
TV Show • 2018 • Comedy
ReportTwo 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.
This tv show contains 23 potentially triggering events.
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Unanswered Triggers
Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is someone crushed to death?
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In a manner of speaking, Annie’s sister is crushed by the car as it falls off the mountain
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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During a pharmaceutical study, multiple characters are gaslit when they question the safety of the study.
Owen briefly gaslights Annie about their shared dream in S1E6 but it’s short lived and she calls him out pretty quick and he admits she’s right.
Owen briefly gaslights Annie about their shared dream in S1E6 but it’s short lived and she calls him out pretty quick and he admits she’s right.
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Episode 4: A woman on the verge of death writes a letter to her estranged (now adult) daughter ranting about what a mistake it was to have her as a child. Episode 6: A character recalls when he was eight years old and his mother would talk extensively about her suicidality with him even though he was obviously unable to help her.
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The show depicts a (very unethical) clinical trial for a set of three pills. Episode 2: Annie snorts a pill. Characters take pills as part of the experiment. Episode 3: A character dies, presumably due to using the experimental drug recreationally. Episode 6: A character engages in freebasing.
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Is there addiction?
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Annie abuses an experimental drug and blackmails her way into a clinical trial just to gain access to it.
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Animal
Does a horse die?
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One character is reading Black Beauty and asks out loud when is this horse going to die?"
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Ep: 6 They talk about a hawk being killed
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Are there bugs?
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Episode 7: dragonfly. Episode 8: grubs.
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[SPOILER] Episode 10: During a scene where the Milgrams are preparing for Jed's trial, it is revealed that Jed has been accused of sexual assault. At the trial, grainy surveillance footage shows Jed groping a coworker and then forcing her to urinate on him. Also, in episode 9 a character fears an ally will stick a tool into an orifice to retrieve a chip planted in his body by enemies. The chip is actually in his knee, and that's not how the tool works anyways.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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A character discusses cutting.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Unclear. There is reference to a character being burned in a car accident. And you do see the car with flames but from afar, not in detail.
(SPOILERS) Some characters are subjected to prolonged exposure to dangerously high temperatures via microwave radiation while unconscious. They do feel this in their dreams. But they survive.
(SPOILERS) Some characters are subjected to prolonged exposure to dangerously high temperatures via microwave radiation while unconscious. They do feel this in their dreams. But they survive.
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Does a head get squashed?
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There is a very graphic scene where a man's skull is drilled.
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Is there a hanging?
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there's a scene where James talks about his father leaving and his mum staying in James' bed and tells him that she wants to hang herself.
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Is someone tortured?
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Episode 7: A character drills into someone's skull for no purpose other than inflicting pain and eventually killing him.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Episode 2: A character dies when the car she's in is hit by a semi truck and tumbles down a cliffside. Episode 3: A character attempts suicide by jumping off a building but does not die or sustain any visible injuries. Episode 8: There's a surreal scene where the character who attempted suicide climbs out a window and is shown falling in slow motion before hitting the ground, where everything is actually a tiny replica of a city.
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
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A few occurrences that are similar:
- In a dream sequence, two characters are captured, tied to chairs and threatened.
-Characters are mislead into participating in a very dangerous, unethical pharmaceutical study. They are not allowed to leave or opt out.
-An AI holds people’s consciousness hostage.
- In a dream sequence, two characters are captured, tied to chairs and threatened.
-Characters are mislead into participating in a very dangerous, unethical pharmaceutical study. They are not allowed to leave or opt out.
-An AI holds people’s consciousness hostage.
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Does a parent die?
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A character is unaware of her mother’s wherabouts and doesn’t know if her mother is alive or not.
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Does someone cheat?
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A man says that he heard that his former wife ran off with another woman, but this is untrue.
A character says that his father left his mother and started a new family.
A character says that his father left his mother and started a new family.
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Fear
Are there jumpscares?
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Episode 5: Characters are abruptly pulled out of dreams, which isn't really a jumpscare but still potentially startling.
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Are there ghosts?
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One of the main characters repeatedly hallucinates seeing a different version of his brother. The brother does not look scary or ghostlike in these hallucinations. However, during S1E5, the brother appears suddenly in a dream about a séance and coughs up ectoplasm. He briefly talks about being murdered by his twin in the womb. In the same episode, in the same dream, another character (who died earlier in the season) appears as a docile zombie or Frankenstein’s Monster sort of deal. Both these instances are meant to be humorous and are not particularly scary but I thought it should be mentioned.
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Does someone vomit?
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In the first episode at approximately 11 mins 30 secs
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Does someone spit?
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Episode 5
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Law Enforcement
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Part of the therapy does include microwave radiation in a chair
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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A character describes being restrained in a psychiatric facility due to a psychotic episode. Episode 10: A character is staying in a residential psychiatric facility due to his brother framing him for a serious crime.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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The characters spend time in a medical facility/lab where they are experimented on.
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Does someone have cancer?
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Episode 4: A character's dream involves the death of an old woman (never introduced) due to stomach cancer. Episode 6: A character in a robe and headscarf is about to be administered an IV in her home. She is never explicitly said to have cancer but the imagery suggests she might.
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Mental Health
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A character discusses cutting.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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the main character is unsure what is real and subsequently we are too
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not successful but there is an onscreen suicide attempt (by jumping if that matters) twice.
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Is there shakey cam?
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The character Owen has episodes of altered reality that is introduced with intense shaking camera.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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No harsh white strobe effects. Flashing colorful lights at many points starting at episode 4. In the middle of episode 9, fluorescent lights flicker but have several seconds of darkness between the short bursts. Around minute 38-39 of episode 9 and the very beginning of episode 10, there are some short but particularly rapid colorful lights flashing.
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Pregnancy
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Is there hate speech?
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To clarify, the title Maniac is most likely alluding to the MANIAC supercomputer (probably the inspiration for GRTA) and not being used as a pejorative term.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Surprised at the “no” answers… Owen is emotionally abused by his family because of his schizophrenia. There are many hurtful, ableist things things said about him and to him.
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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A character is shown having sex in VR.
Two characters are shown on a naked on a bed.
Two characters are shown on a naked on a bed.
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Episode 6: A character expresses that he has a painful relationship with his mother and doesn't keep in contact with her much at all. When they meet in person, they exchange a prolonged open-mouth kiss, with other characters looking visibly uncomfortable.
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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In the last ten minutes of episode 2 it is revealed Annie and her sister were involved in an accident while on vacation.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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There is a car accident in episode 2 that involves a death, but no pedestrians are involved.
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Is there blood/gore?
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Episode 2: A character involved in a car accident is shown with blood on her body. A large scar can be seen on her back in other episodes. Episode 7: There's a very graphic scene where a man drills into someone else's skull and blood sprays everywhere. A character shoots an "inner demon" that looks like her, and there is some blood on the face. Episode 8: A character is shown covered in blood from the drill scene in the previous episode. There are several characters shot to death. One character's torso is shot into two separate pieces, blood sprays all over a bystander, and the dead guy's guts are shown spilling out. Episode 9: Characters have nosebleeds.
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Is there gun violence?
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Episode 4 involves a shootout where one character gets riddled with bullets. Episodes 8 and 9 each multiple deaths due to the use of guns.
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