![]() Our lead survivor, Michaela ( Valor’s Melissa Roxburgh), voice-overs us into finding a critical Bible verse, from Romans, ahem, 8:28: “And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are calling according to His purpose.” His purpose! Work together for good! Love God! You get it.īasically, though, it’s this: Our motley crew of survivors is blessed with magical powers now, and so we can get on with the dogoodering. Yet it doesn’t seem like the show is going to waste much time looking for answers the plane itself goes kaput at the end of the first episode and so too, hopefully, all the questions about mechanics. government-very reasonably have questions. There’s a lot to catch up on! And people-including, first and foremost, the U.S. In the years since Flight 828 vanished, older relatives died, significant others moved on, and-worst of all-giggling children transformed into reproachful teens. Sure, some of the Cast Away beats are there. The show seems much less interested in exploring the sci-fi mystery of the disappearance than in exploring a newly mystical present, wherein our 191 returnees suddenly start hearing voices compelling them to carry out acts of heroism (save a child running into traffic, save a child with cancer, save two children from a kidnapper, etc.). It’s The Leftovers, but if all the raptured had turned back up at the end of the pilot and winked.īut Manifest, which premiered Monday on NBC, doesn’t appear to be any of these things. A plane takes off from Jamaica on April 7, 2013, with 191 souls aboard, vanishes without a trace for five and a half years, and then reappears, with its passengers and crew none the wiser that anything unusual has taken place, as it comes in for a landing at JFK in November 2018. ![]() Much like the passengers of Flight 828, you think you know where this is going.
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