![]() ![]() Even the fact that she has desk duty upon returning to the police force seems tangentially related. To its credit, the pilot of Manifest only hints at a car accident and a girl named Evie, leaving the rest enticingly vague. Her raw guilt and shame is palpable from the moment she appears on the screen even though we have no idea why she might feel this way especially since she is with her loving family. Michaela, in fact, is the most compelling character from the very start and not just because she is the narrator of the show. Leading us to believe it was her alone experiencing the compulsions at first was also a smart move, especially given her possible proclivity for mental issues. The drama that ensues as a result of spouses having moved on and a twin suddenly younger than his teenage sister is certainly worth exploring, but the developing, inexplicable voices that lead Michaela Stone (Melissa Roxburgh) to stop the bus just before it ran over a boy gave the whole supernatural angle a boost. Obviously it’s not enough to base the entire story around the mysterious 5-year time jump, intriguing though it may be. Can this show sustain itself over a long period of time based only on the varied interpretations of a voice in the head, essentially saying, “If you build it, they will come”? It’s actually the potential crime-of-the-week plot structure that’s the main source of trepidation. ![]() Even though only a few characters are able to grab us emotionally from the start, the groundwork is laid for many more to pull us in as the varying stories of the passengers onboard Flight 828 unfold. The first episode of Manifest is an exemplary pilot in some ways the premise of an airplane time-jumping five years is engaging, and the central mystery about what has been done to the passengers is a great hook. This review contains spoilers for Manifest.
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