Justin Theroux said his “Maniac” alter ego, Dr. James K. Mantleray, owes everything to his wig. “I was like, ‘This wig is terrible,'” he said, recalling its tar-colored tufts.

The issue for Maniac is whether all of the high gloss and ... The mind-altering pharmacological/computer plan was conceived by Dr. James Mantleray (Justin Theroux in a thrill ride of a performance ...

But lest you think Maniac is endorsing talk therapy, it offers up one of its most odious characters in the form of abusive celebrity therapist Dr. Greta Mantleray (Sally Field). What’s more ...

Through its first five episodes, Maniac was missing precisely this very moment in which Dr. Greta so succinctly sums up the motivation of the main players of the series. It didn’t need to be ...

the term used by Dr. Mantleray and Dr. Fujita (Sonoya Mizuno) to describe those rendered brain-dead by their tests, are a perennial risk in Maniac. Of course, the name has its roots in another of ...

“The ‘A’ experience on its own can be a seductive demon,” says Dr. Robert Muramoto in Maniac Episode 3. “Most people wouldn’t understand why someone wants to revisit a trauma again and ...

This gets us back to the actual point of Maniac. Dr Myles says he finds the psychoanalytical perspective of the show actually quite useful — the idea that what happens at some crucial point in ...