Review of Manifest

Manifest (2018–2023)
2/10
Awesome premise, bad execution. Done after episode three.
14 August 2019
Warning: Spoilers
The first episode showed good potential. Characters on a plane, plane lands and it's 5 1/2 years later. The show seems to want to concentrate on 4 of the plane characters though, a father, his sister, his son (half of a twin) and a doctor. The sister is a cop, so we got sci-fi drama with her dealing with government conspiracy. The father has to deal with the daughter twin is now a teen-ager and his wife's life for his missing period. The acting is just terrible especially the women. The wife, the cop and the teenage girl are incredibly annoying. The cop insistence on "picking up her caseload" and shunning any type of therapy is just plain stupid. You've been away from humanity for over 5 years and you think you can start solving crimes and hangout with your fellow co-workers like nothing happened is a joke. The wife not telling her husband about the men is her life in his absence makes absolutely no sense especially when one of these guys have keys to the house. Case in point, about episode two, people on the aircraft are being killed. so dad want to keep family members close hold, a smart decision, but daughter sneaks out at night to be with a boyfriend and mom give dad crap about him being upset when his see footprints around the house. Also a strange guy in walking around in the house, dad attacks guy and the wife yells at husband??? Oh right, she gave the guy the keys to the house and never once mention this, even though she knows people are being killed involved in the passenger list. It's just bad drama that seem to drag on with no type plot line. I might have stuck with it, but I can't stand watching people constantly making stupid decisions. How this gets over 7 here is beyond me
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