Maniac Season 2 Will Not Happen After That Ending
David Crow Oct 1, 2018
Maniac co-creator reveals why there cannot be a Maniac Season 2 after the series' ending broke the golden rule of TV.
This article contains some Maniac spoilers.
At the moment, Cary Joji Fukunaga and Patrick Somerville’s strange yet ultimately blissful limited Netflix series, Maniac, continues to find audiences. While it has divided some critics, including our own, the Emma Stone and Jonah Hill starring series is a unique art piece that arguably more resembles a standalone work of cinema than it does a season of television. And as it turns out, it is for that reason—as well as Stone, Hill, and now even future Bond director Fukunaga being very busy—that we will definitely not see a second season of one of the year’s most groundbreaking television experiments.
Last week, director Fukunaga revealed that he hoped Somerville could develop a second season, although he would not be coming back,...
Maniac co-creator reveals why there cannot be a Maniac Season 2 after the series' ending broke the golden rule of TV.
This article contains some Maniac spoilers.
At the moment, Cary Joji Fukunaga and Patrick Somerville’s strange yet ultimately blissful limited Netflix series, Maniac, continues to find audiences. While it has divided some critics, including our own, the Emma Stone and Jonah Hill starring series is a unique art piece that arguably more resembles a standalone work of cinema than it does a season of television. And as it turns out, it is for that reason—as well as Stone, Hill, and now even future Bond director Fukunaga being very busy—that we will definitely not see a second season of one of the year’s most groundbreaking television experiments.
Last week, director Fukunaga revealed that he hoped Somerville could develop a second season, although he would not be coming back,...
- 10/1/2018
- Den of Geek
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