Cary Fukunaga takes his surreal touch to a new level in Netflix's inventive 'Maniac'

QUEENS, N.Y. - On a morning last October, Jonah Hill and Emma Stone were having an intense conversation about globular clusters.

Neither a brand of granola nor an exciting new indie band, globular clusters are a crucial (if mysterious) element of "Maniac," an inventive series directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, in which Stone and Hill star as participants in a trippytrial.

At Silvercup Studios in Queens, the former "Superbad" costars, clad in gray coveralls, were huddled inside a sleeping pod reminiscent of a Japanese capsule hotel. Their characters, Annie and Owen, have had an unexpected reaction to the drug and are trying to figure out what the heck is going on.

"Maybe it's part of their experiment, to connect