Binge Alert: 3 Netflix Series That’ll Eat Your Weekend — Maniac, Friren, Old Enough!
Here are three Netflix shows you can stream now, with key facts to help you pick what to watch this weekend.
- Maniac — a 2018 limited drama series with a psychiatric drug trial premise.
- Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End — an anime focused on life after a completed quest.
- Old Enough! — a long-running Japanese reality series that follows young children running errands.
Maniac
Episodes: 10. Released: 2018. Platform: Netflix.
Maniac was created by Cary Joji Fukunaga and Patrick Somerville. The series stars Emma Stone and Jonah Hill as two people who join the same pharmaceutical trial. The show is set in a retrofuturistic version of New York and follows their experiences as the trial produces a sequence of varied, surreal scenarios. The series is presented as a single-season limited run.
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
Episodes: 28. Format: Anime. Platform: Netflix (where available).
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End centers on Frieren, an elf who outlives her former companions. The story examines what occurs after a major quest concludes, and it follows Frieren as she travels with new companions, including the mage Fern and the warrior Stark. The series mixes action, character moments, and reflective scenes about time and mortality.
Old Enough!
Episodes: 10 (as presented on Netflix). Origin: Japan. First aired: 1991 (original Japanese broadcast).
Old Enough! documents young children undertaking short, real-world errands. Episodes follow children, sometimes as young as two, as they walk to nearby stores or complete small tasks while discrete camera crews record from a distance. Each episode focuses on the child’s problem-solving and reactions during the outing.
