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8/10
Tarik
michapace-6715816 September 2021
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I can't believe they killed off Tarik! It would've been so nice to have a new family member to add some common sense and another dynamic into the mix.

I'm growing tired of "I have to do this for my family." Or "What does the calling mean?" (If this were a drinking game...) Dramas get trite when they ask the same questions and answer them with the same tired answers like "I don't know but we have to figure it out." DUH Ben.

I do kinda like that Mick and Zeke are taking care of Beverly. However they're living on her salary alone. Not sure how they're affording the in-home care.
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7/10
The ending ruined it for me to be honest [7.5/10]
panagiotis199329 July 2023
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Reaction / Review for Manifest Season 3 Episode 6: Episode 5 was good and I gave it a rating of 7.5/10. Bruh did he just shoot the NSA guy? That's crazy. He stabbed Tarik? This dude is on a killing spree, I hope Tarik wont die. Pete can fight, I like it. I feel so bad for Tarik, everything happened because he was excited about opening a restaurant with his sister, his intentions were good. Grace knows how to shoot? I didn't expect that. Angelina and Pete are so cute together. What's going on? Are they going to die like Jace? This doesn't make sense, no. Wow what an ending, it sucks. Overall a really good episode but that ending ruined it for me. My rating is 7.5/10.
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10/10
Wow!!! What an episode!!!
Ollie-art30 April 2021
I liked this show , it wasn't one of my favorite but it was good. This episode made this show special. THE TWIST!!!! Is just amazing. After this episode I'm really going to recommend this show to other people. And is a message to other people to not give up on tv shows like Manifest. I get that 2 other seasons weren't good but it grows on you, please give this show a chance. I watched a lot, like a lot of tv shows, and only a few left me on the edge of the seat, Manifest did it. To be honest didn't think it will, but I'm glad. So give it a chance, while you watch other stupid series without any plot watch this.

Really GREAT!!!!
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10/10
Excellent and refreshing
Hillius6 June 2021
This episode was truly remarkable and earned it's first ten rating from me. During the past two seasons I've been doubtful at times, but soldiering on has led to some great moments in this show.

Mick and Zeke come to after their struggle with Jace and must help one another out of the woods so that they can keep tracking the killer and help protect their family from this maniac. Grace, Cal and the baby are still at Tarik's house who has been trying to find a way to capitalize on his sisters notoriety while trying to be a good brother.

There's another scene with Olive and the rather unlikable Levi who are working to restore a collection of old, very fragile papyrus artifacts that bear a message. All were recovered from the soil and so must be carefully cleaned before each piece can be read. Later in the episode Olive is instrumental in restoring it to a whole in a rather lucky turn of events.

Pete, who is on deaths door, just like Kory and Jace is still in police custody, but the scientist working on Flight 828 want to run tests on him while he still sharing visions with his other two accomplices. After some drama he ultimately agrees to help Ben find Jace and in doing, possibly redeem himself so he can be with Angelina.

Detective Vasquez, who has been trying to help the Major's daughter find some information on her missing mother gets a little too close to the truth. After he meets with Vance, he is able to offer a little closure to the distraught woman and later turns his attention to helping Mick and her family deal with Jace.

The final showdown at Tarik's house turns out to be some of the most exciting TV this reviewer has seen in awhile. After some vandalism at the house, Tarik and Grace decide to hunker down until Ben shows up with Pete and an agency escort. Jace, completely having misunderstood the visions has come up with a way to save himself through homicide. Somehow, Kory also shows up to this final meeting having escaped from the hospital he'd been recovering in.

At the culminating event, Mick and Zeke finally show up to Tarik's house while ultimately it is the power behind the callings that is the final judge in the matter both satisfactory and horrific. Having failed at a chance for redemption, Jace is found guilty but the cost has been high this time for all parties involved.

A truly wonderful episode of television that shows that actions do have consequences in a rather karmaic kind of way. Overall, this has been a very good show, though it suffers from some of the same PC garbage as has been infesting other good shows as well, it is still some top quality viewing. 10/10 well done!
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10/10
Went all 'Final Destination' on us
chris-j-chuba15 June 2021
The series went from 'Touched by an Angel' to 'Final Destination'. I think this was a badly needed shake up.

The show was becoming too formulaic. It has become about a group of people worrying trying to do enough good deeds to appease some higher power to the point of triviality.

Too many scenes where one character takes a knee, grabs their head and says, 'did you see the cat stuck in the tree?

'cat? All I saw was a tree and a branch falling to the ground' 'We better drop everything we are doing and get to that cat. It's running out of time' This episode flipped over the game board.

(btw I added this review to the wrong episode before, I had a headache :-))
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10/10
Best Episode To Date
lisacalhoun-2636825 June 2021
This episode is hilarious. I was sincerely humored for the entire 45 minutes.
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6/10
Season three has completely fallen off
csharrett-7696923 June 2021
Ughhh not one episode has been good season 1 and 2 were great this one is a mess and the acting is awful well more awful then the first two seasons.
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1/10
Bad Decisions
tlbriley28 October 2021
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In almost every scene in this episode, someone bad is lurking out there. And what do every single one of these morons do? They split up. What happens next is pretty predictable.
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2/10
Poor dialogue
lesleymillington16 February 2022
Is it just me but is the acting getting worse? Could be the dialogue and repetition. Once you see a bit of unbelievable acting you cannot unsee it everywhere else. I'm out as I'm sick of Ben, Grace and Mick.
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3/10
Wow.. how bad can it get... after 2 good seasons
SallyWilliams1 May 2021
These last 2 episodes were so badly written, each of the characters makes one stupid decision after another, so the story can unfold for the forced confrontation. I hoped they would not spiral down that soon, but here we have the next LOST. I'm out !
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1/10
If God is a DJ
benjaminheco2 May 2021
Then this dance floor is messy.... idk, I liked the show in the beginning of season 1 & 2. I'm a bit confused as I still haven't wrapped my head around where this will lead to. I have a hard time coping that Manifest might have a religious twist, please it's 2021.

The last two episodes feels like a BIG filler and the acting, decisions the characters are taking, and the writing is not the best. Messy. See you in a week :)
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4/10
Annoying
kaianmattmckay27 January 2024
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This and the last episode were hopefully the culmination in a "graveyard spiral" of stupid people doing stupid things and getting their just deserts.

Ben's character has gradually been fleshed out as an uber-loose cannon with zero executive function, incapable of the basic adult self-control or forwards planning necessary to avoid getting himself and those close to him into a world of regret and vexation. It started out being portrayed as hot-headedness and passion, but by Season 3, his impulsivity has turned him into a liability of national security-level proportions, and it's grimly satisfying when Vance tells him to his face how recklessly idiotic he's been.

In this episode, sadly, Michaela takes a leaf out of her zero-executive-function-having brother, deciding to go against direct orders from, and promises to, her precinct boss and go running off upstate to deal with the unfinished business of an Egyptian mythology-inspired homicidal nutcase.

Michaela's original partner, Jared, is only dragged into the proceedings as an afterthought-and her new partner (probably the series' most likeable character) is nowhere to be seen. Instead, she runs off half-cocked with her ersatz brothusband Zeke, because, as one of New York's finest, solving cases with wholly untrained family members is obviously what you do.

Perhaps because, for the Stone family, rudimentary self-control and the following of due process are as incomprehensible as the Egyptian hieroglyph papyrus upon which this story arc is so brittly based, they inevitably end up reaping what they sow, and have now started invoking divine intervention to compensate for their lack of foresight and introspection.

It's hard to care about characters like this: To quote Hugo Weaving's Elrond in The Hobbit, "You should've stayed dead." But at nearly 3/4s the way through, I may as well stick with it till the bitter, irritating end.

What saves this from a lower rating are some touching performances from characters Zeke and Pete, as well as a solid performance from daughter Olive, who seems to be the only one in the family with her head properly screwed onto her shoulders.
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2/10
Awful
knedb25 August 2021
Ben only cares about his family... everyone else is expendable. So who cares if they die. Right? I hate Ben's condescending narcissistic behavior. This third season is trash. Thank god they cancelled this pos.
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4/10
Too absurd
MajorBaleegh2 April 2024
Mikaela fall off from a 30 foot high cliff and just dislocated her arm, i mean seriously, any one falling from that height would surely died but as this tv series is quite awful so anything can happen.

A family tv show should pose something related to reality where as this show breaks all records.

This look quite like a cartoon where a character dies and after sometimes comes back to life where as this does not happen in real world.

The first season was the best the second going down and the third is just making the short story long with unnecessary details.

Ben on the other hand is only focusing on his family rest all are extras as they come and go in each new episode.
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5/10
SO MUCH LAZY WRITING IN ONE EPISODE
alelizio8 February 2024
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This series is one of the best I've watched, but this episode seems to be written, performed and patched in a rush. So many scenes where the characters act differently.

Seems like the writers didn't have a clue about to go from scene A to scene B to scene C, and so rushed to finish this episode. The NSA agent's death was totally predictable, and Turik didn't have a reason to be killed. Nor Pete or Kory needed to be there, although their part was appropriate and in according to the lore of the series (although sad and unfair).

I hope in the next episodes the writers had made their homework and paid attention to the personality of the characters before spoiling the story in exchange for some cold and predictable "intense" scenes.
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