![]() He has no leads, the cops have moved on, and life is only getting harder for 828ers everywhere. Ben is clearly living a version of his worst life trying to find Eden, having pushed anything to do with the Jdeath date or the rest of Flight 828’s passengers to the back of his mind. Season 4 starts out two years after the death of Grace Stone and the subsequent kidnapping of Eden Stone by Angelina, Season 3’s evangelical heretic who believed the baby to be her guardian angel. There’s a level of ridiculousness that we all signed up for here, and it’s finally on full display. Missing planes, government conspiracies, some sort of magical and a divine entity that aged a child up 5 and a half years for reasons unknown, all tied together with some ethereally glowing objects and brain scans. I say this very lovingly as someone who watched the first three seasons of the show live Manifest is the child Lost and Riverdale never knew they had. The audience is already locked in, the end is on its way, and everyone who cares about the show knows exactly what they’re in for. The nicest thing about a show as far along as Manifest is that it doesn’t need to prove itself to anyone. While creator and showrunner Jeff Rake had originally planned for a six-season run, an extended 4th season isn’t anything to dismiss, especially with the guarantee that an end is in sight. Even better, the final season would be the longest one yet, with 20 episodes split into two 10-episode parts. However, a change of platform resulted in impressive viewership numbers, enough that Netflix ultimately saved the show and renewed it for a final 4th season. Though Netflix acquired the streaming rights for those first seasons, they initially passed on bringing it back beyond that. Having those convenient plot devices too many times get written off as "it's all connected so we'll learn more later." But as we learned from The X-Files, more often than not that never ends up happening- and Manifest feels like one of those shows.Much like the passengers of Montego Airways Flight 828, Manifest has (finally) returned from the dead.Īfter being canceled 3 seasons in at NBC, it seemed like we would once again see a mystery box-style show get cut off at the knees with absolutely no resolution. Again, the plot conveniently had a doctor that saved them both because Flight 828 passenger Adrian ( Jared Grimes) saved that very same doctor from drowning previously. So was Grace in an earlier episode when Ben had to pick between her & their baby in a procedure that created a gut-wrenching emotional moment. Manifest character Zeke ( Matt Long) could have had that moment since he wanted to enjoy his final days married to Michela as his "death date" approached. ![]() Image courtesy of ABC Zeke and Grace Overstayed Their Welcome Henry Ian Cusick and Dominic Monaghan in Lost. For example, one of the most intricate and show-defining plot moments of Lost is Charlie Pace's ( Dominic Monaghan) death as he managed to write "Not Penny's Boat" on his hand before drowning. Honestly, I feel Manifest could have learned a ton from Lost when it comes to where it drives its plot. While both series leaned heavily on their ensembles, Lost wasn't squeamish about killing its core characters. ![]() The series' focused mainly on the events on the island than the plane itself. NBCĪBC's Lost had a similar plot to Manifest, but it involved a group of marooned passengers on an island from a flight that crashed. At the end of the third season, the biggest and only major casualty of the core cast is the loss of Ben's wife Grace ( Athena Karkanis), who manages to have her final moments with her son Cal ( Jack Messina), who manages to phase back into time to see her. All parties are trying to make sense of whatever phenomena comes their way and it eventually gets into biblical messages like another mystery-shrouded series, ABC's Lost but it always seems to lack a real sense of gravity since it seems okay with arbitrarily moving the goalposts when it wants. The principal players are siblings Michela ( Melissa Roxburgh) and Ben Stone ( Josh Dallas), who become the most proactive from these callings that not only affect their fellow passengers but also the world around them.
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