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Maniac's best and bleakest joke is its take on the gig economy

Posted by Norman Weiss
Friday 10/05/18 at 10:26PM EDT
  • The A.V. Club

    "Working when an app instructs you to ends up being just as dehumanizing, if not more so, than doing it when your shift supervisor texts you," says Clayton Purdom of the Netflix series. "Maniac sends this trend into hyper-drive, imagining a New York City where everybody is selling everything just to afford shoebox apartments."

    TOPICS: Maniac, Netflix


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