Maniac

That's the usual trajectory.

But Mandel explicitly states that the Station Eleven series didn't actually give her any mere power in the publishing world.

It expanded her readership, sure, and it proved to studio executives that her structurally complex, nonlinear, or as she calls them, weird books can actually function on screen.

But power wasn't the draw.

But beyond the practicalities of insurance, the desire for collaboration represents a massive psychological shift for her.

And to understand that shift, you have to look at the timeline.

Back in 2017, showrunner Patrick Somerville was actually on the set of the Netflix series Maniac.

Okay.