I vilket år ska maniac skaffa sig?

Officiellt de sa:

Set in a world somewhat like our world, in a time quite similar to our time

Och från thrillist :

"To me, it's not our timeline," Somerville says. "It's our zeitgeist of 2018 and it's a different history of technology. It's a different kind of version of our reality. So 2018 zeitgeist, but a world where the microchip was never invented, maybe something like that." Nothing else made clear in or out of universe. IT's just seems like take place in an alternate present reality.

     

Somerville förklarar att han och Fukunaga letade efter den "analoga versionen" av trender som skulle vara kända för dagens publik.

Så det är bara en alternativ nuvarande tid.

I avsnitt 6, cirka 27 minuter i avsnittet frågar Dr. Greta Mantleray, Dr James Mantlerays mor, "I vilket år föddes du?" som Dr James Mantleray svarar, "1977". Skådespelaren som spelar Dr. James Mantleray, Justin Theroux, föddes 1971. Från det här antar jag att serien äger rum runt 2018, ge eller ta några år.

Några andra relevanta citat kommer från den här intervjun med show runner Patrick Somerville:

Patrick Somerville, who wrote all 10 episodes of the drama, told The Hollywood Reporter that this bleak vision of New York was foundational to how he and new James Bond director Cary Joji Fukunaga approached Maniac.

"One of the first conversations Cary and I had about the show was about the representation of reality — not just the delusional landscapes, but the actual reality of the show — being a little off, and a little heightened. We knew that we wanted to have this absurdist tone where anything is possible, but the emotional stakes were relatable. To me, it's our zeitgeist, but it's just a different history of technology. It's the universe where Betamax won and Steve Jobs got hit by a bus, or where a number of arbitrary things led to a slightly different series of events between the early 1980s and now."

som tyder på att detta ska vara en avvikande dagens dag.

In one standout absurdist moment in this wonky New York, a tour guide points out a winged "Statue of Extra Liberty" across the water (seen above). "New York needed more liberty!" Somerville joked, before offering a clarification. "I saw some people writing about it, and that is actually not the harbor. The camera is pointing north in that shot, so in the Maniac world, the Statue of Liberty still exists, and the Statue of Extra Liberty also exists. Someone decided that we needed another one."