![]() If you go into this expecting answers, be prepared to leave disappointed. Why did this happen? Who or what caused it? Why this flight? And exactly what connects all these passengers together? A plane takes off on a seemingly normal trip but when it touches down at its destination, 5 and a half years have passed for everyone else other than the passengers on-board, who haven’t aged a day. On paper, Manifest’s premise is actually incredibly interesting. The early 2000’s hit gripped the world and since then, plenty of shows have tried to rekindle that same lightning in a bottle, including The 4400, FlashForward and The I-Land, to name a few. Whether you liked the season finale or not, LOST will forever be the defining mystery series on TV that revolutionized the way these mystery dramas play out. Manifest is a show that’s captivated me, frustrated me and at times seriously tested my patience across its 16 episode run-time. As per most of the content I get through, I go in blindly, having not watched a trailer or read a plot synopsis before for a more raw experience. It’s one of the bigger shows from 2018/2019 I just didn’t get around to watching and with all 16 episodes ready to binge, I thought I’d take the plunge. ![]() In the year that a motivated fanbase willed Zack Snyder’s f our-hour Justice League into existence, we’ve learned that an activated set of superfans can often get its way. There's a good chance, then, that fans mobilized to instill faith in the streamer that a revival would have a built-in viewership.īut given the nature of things, it could also be a polar bear or smoke monster.Around the festive holidays, a fair amount of my family recommended I check out Manifest. Even before Manifest was canceled, fans were lobbying for Netflix to continue the series, much like it did successfully with Fox's Lucifer. Meanwhile, while the show has been tepidly received, its fanbase is active and rabid. The show’s twisty narrative and propensity for cliffhangers are perfectly calibrated for binge-watching, so it’s entirely possible that it found a new audience. Seasons 1 and 2 were just added to Netflix at the top of June, and other networks’ series often get a spike of interest when they land on the streamer. ![]() It could, however, be a combination of issues. Given Manifest's low ratings, it’s unlikely that newcomers caught the season finale last week and decided to play catch-up in large enough numbers to send it soaring to the top. an announcement that came after the show became the hottest thing on Netflix. Less than a week later, the show was officially canceled. ![]() NBC just aired the show’s third season finale on June 10, dropping a huge cliffhanger. ![]() Why is Manifest on top of Netflix’s charts? So in essence, it’s a small-scale version of the famous Blip in the Marvel movies - which involved half the life in the galaxy disappearing, only to reappear years later - crossed with HBO's The Leftovers, with police procedural, supernatural overtones, melodrama and puzzle-box elements thrown in to ensure you know you're watching a sprawling network-TV sci-fi opus. Long presumed dead, the ensemble attempts to move on and reintegrate into society, all while experiencing visions of the future and other sci-fi contrivances. The show - starring Melissa Roxburugh, Josh Dallas, Jack Messina and Parveen Kaur - concerns a flight from Jamaica to New York that experiences violent turbulence and ends up arriving at JFK about 5 years late, unbeknownst to the passengers themselves. It had a high-profile producer in the form of Robert Zemeckis ( Forrest Gump, Back to the Future ), a massive airplane set piece and the kind of puzzle-box narrative that JJ Abrahams fans tend to swallow wholesale. Manifest debuted in 2018 on NBC, seeking, clearly, to become the next Lost. ![]()
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