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Like the human mind,Maniaccontains multitudes.

Anything you’ve got the option to imagine, we talked about, creator Patrick Somerville says.

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We talked about noir detective stories, historical dramas, gothic stories, horror stories.

We sort of made a new show every week.

Heres how they did it.

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We did supernatural haunting stories, we were all over the place.

It was really a collective creative effort to kind of end up where we ended up.

Maniacdebuts Friday, Sept. 21, on Netflix.