8.4/102,539 votesLoading...#1 - Option C
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/21/2018
After the subjects are discharged, James and Azumi face Neberdine's CEO. Owen and Annie part ways -- until a startling headline sparks a reunion.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Patrick Somerville, Cary Joji Fukunaga
8.3/102,484 votesLoading...#2 - Utangatta
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/21/2018
Owen and Annie meet again as a disgraced Icelandic spy and a CIA operative who helps him. Greta implores James to shut down the trial.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Patrick Somerville
7.8/102,970 votesLoading...#3 - Windmills
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/2018
When her pilfered stash of pills runs out, troubled Annie tries to quit -- but ends up blackmailing her way into the Neberdine study.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Patrick Somerville
7.8/102,510 votesLoading...#4 - Exactly Like You
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/21/2018
Annie and Owen are Arlie and Ollie, grifters attending a séance at the mysterious Neberdine mansion in the 1940s.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Mauricio Katz, Caroline Goddard
7.7/102,671 votesLoading...#5 - Furs by Sebastian
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/21/2018
After taking the B pill, Annie and Owen find themselves on 1980s Long Island entangled in a strange caper involving a lemur.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Patrick Somerville, Nick Cuse
7.6/102,662 votesLoading...#6 - Having a Day
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/2018
Muramoto notices irregularities in Annie and Owen's data. He questions Owen, who recalls the worst night of his life: his brother's engagement party.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Patrick Somerville, Caroline Goddard
7.5/102,311 votesLoading...#7 - Larger Structural Issues
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/21/2018
Azumi tells James the whole truth about the study's snags and urges him to call his estranged mother, an esteemed therapist.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Patrick Somerville, Nick Cuse
7.5/102,232 votesLoading...#8 - The Lake of the Clouds
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/21/2018
Annia and Ellia continue their quest, and Owen's mafioso father pressures him to protect the family. Greta counsels a bereaved Gertie.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Mauricio Katz, Nick Cuse
7.3/103,415 votesLoading...#9 - The Chosen One!
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/2018
Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Owen is the black sheep of the wealthy Milgrim clan. After losing his job, he enrolls in an experimental drug trial.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Patrick Somerville
7.1/102,289 votesLoading...#10 - Ceci N'est Pas Une Drill
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/21/2018
Owen and Annie take the C pill. No longer connected, he belongs to a Mafia family, and she's a medieval guide hired by an ailing elf princess.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Amelia Gray, Danielle Henderson
The Best Episodes of Maniac
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Two 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....
Genres:ComedyDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:Netflix
Best Episodes Summary
"Option C" is the best rated episode of "Maniac". It scored 8.4/10 based on 2539 votes. Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and written by Patrick Somerville, Cary Joji Fukunaga, it aired on 9/21/2018. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Utangatta".