New Netflix Series : Maniac

The mini-serial is a good alternative: 10 episodes for a total of six minutes, make it possible to choose a world, to set up two arcs, to avoid the purses and to transform them. Maniac goes pretty well on many criteria. The universe that he exposes, if he is not fundamentally original, a merit to dig his bias, like that of a vintage / futuristic vision, where there was the coastal conception of excuses of what our capitalist society of opening already in matter of effect. Cathodic screens, custom post for oralised commercials, the proposed company deny any visual fascination that dystopias usually offer, and it’s rather a good idea.

The couple of actors is the great added value of the series: the scenario is for them a gold mine, insofar as the navigation between various fantasy worlds will allow them a wide variety of games and characters. Emma Stone spares no effort to work the pallet of the wounded badass, while Jonah Hill, quite unrecognizable (emaciated and more mature, he now seems a brother of Ben Stiller) plays on a more refined score that allows him to express emotions that we did not know him.

Faced with them, the technical team of this lab that hires them as a guinea pig creates a community a little destroy which also works pretty well. Because if the plot, based on levels of experience and the inevitable crash in the experience does not shine by its innovations, it is on the field of humor that the series pulls out of the game. wait for the fourth episode for it to express itself fully, in a rather clever trip, sort of sketch off the hook that will explore the universe a little bran Coen brothers around the robbery of a lemur. From there, the bridle is released, and the derision comes to give a saving flavor to this mixture of Inception and 2001 that was likely to get bogged down: a grotesque Oedipus, a parody of fantasy quite dispensable, a film of mafia and a cold war atmosphere that ends up in bloodshed are each more often presented as distanced reflections on genres rather than infinite renewals of entertainment.

Conclusion

Maybe it’s asking too much. Anyway, the format of the serial makes it possible not to focus only on these pitfalls: we will have, before this destination, made many trips, so many detours in minds that return us to our own condition, and continues a reflection recently addressed by Under the Silver Lake: the architecture of our subconscious is primarily built on fiction, and our fantasies structured by pop culture.