# Manifest (new NBC paranormal series)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted
**Created:** [September 25, 2018, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913 "2018-09-25T22:10:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@FatOrangeCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatOrangeCat)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2018, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/41 "2018-10-03T21:13:07Z")
I find the lead actress so annoying that I honestly don’t think that I can sit through another episode.
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### Author:  [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2018, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/42 "2018-10-03T23:26:23Z")
Rather a shocking climax to Ep 2.
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### Author:  [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2018, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/43 "2018-10-04T00:29:57Z")
> [@Slash1972](#):
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> I wasn’t aware there was a limit to how many people could participate in a medical trial. If that is the case, that would be a valid point.
…someone very close to me was eligible for a potentially life-saving medical trial but got put in the control group instead. ☹ Its just the way it works…and is just as heartbreaking in real life.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/44 "2018-10-04T01:06:18Z")
> [@FatOrangeCat](#):
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> I find the lead actress so annoying that I honestly don’t think that I can sit through another episode.
The police officer whose fiance married her best friend? I’m not particularly fond of her either; however, that unpleasantness appears to be part of the plot.
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2018, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/45 "2018-10-04T05:53:03Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#):
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> Does anyone believe a kidnapper – with his victims imprisoned on the premises no less! – would call the police to report his dogs had been taken???
He didn’t. Some woman recorded the “break in” and sent it to the police.
OTOH, he is gonna get off scot free unless she has learned to do what every cops learns- think of Probable Cause. Yes, lie. “I heard some voices calling for help, the dogs were acting weird and led me there, and I heard muffled crying”.
Who can refute her?
Otherwise it was a totally illegal search.
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### Author:  [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2018, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/46 "2018-10-04T12:32:59Z")
> [@DrDeth](#):
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> He didn’t. Some woman recorded the “break in” and sent it to the police.
Yes, clearly I missed that. One of the drawbacks of doing handwork while ‘watching’ television.
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> OTOH, he is gonna get off scot free unless she has learned to do what every cops learns- think of Probable Cause. Yes, lie. “I heard some voices calling for help, the dogs were acting weird and led me there, and I heard muffled crying”.
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> Who can refute her?
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> Otherwise it was a totally illegal search.
Hmm. Yeah, they throw out physical evidence found by illegal searches, but what she found was the kidnapped girls, alive. Surely the kids can testify as to what happened to them and who did it?
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### Author:  [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2018, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/47 "2018-10-04T13:16:30Z")
If they search your home without a warrant or probable cause and find a 55 gallon drum of meth they may not be able to use the evidence against you, but you’re not getting it back with an apology.
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### Author:  [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/48 "2018-10-04T13:31:22Z")
> [@FatOrangeCat](#):
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> I find the lead actress so annoying that I honestly don’t think that I can sit through another episode.
YES. I had that same thought while watching the last episode. I’ll be happy if the show starts focusing more on other characters.
> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> The police officer whose fiance married her best friend? I’m not particularly fond of her either; however, that unpleasantness appears to be part of the plot.
For me, it’s definitely the actress. I actually don’t find the character annoying: she’s responding very human-ly (i.e., she isn’t perfect), and also we know she went through some kind of trauma shortly before the flight (someone died? maybe in a car accident?). The actress, though, bugs me.
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### Author:  [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2018, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/49 "2018-10-04T13:53:25Z")
I just wish she’d pluck her eyebrows some.
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### Author:  [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2018, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/50 "2018-10-04T14:11:29Z")
I also noticed the eyebrows. 😃
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### Author:  [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/51 "2018-10-04T14:48:49Z")
I thought we weren’t supposed to comment on the looks of a woman if it’s not germane to the topic?
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### Author:  [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2018, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/52 "2018-10-04T15:03:27Z")
😕
I don’t remember seeing/hearing about such a rule (and I _would_ remember, because I’d never agree to it)…
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2018, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/53 "2018-10-04T17:23:55Z")
> [@Misnomer](#):
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> For me, it’s definitely the actress. I actually don’t find the character annoying: she’s responding very human-ly (i.e., she isn’t perfect), and also we know she went through some kind of trauma shortly before the flight (someone died? maybe in a car accident?). The actress, though, bugs me.
Her job was in jeopardy because she was picked up for a DUI shortly before the incident, and the issue hadn’t been resolved at the time.
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### Author:  [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2018, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/54 "2018-10-04T18:02:29Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> Her job was in jeopardy because she was picked up for a DUI shortly before the incident, and the issue hadn’t been resolved at the time.
That’s not what happened:
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> I’ve been through your file. Seems like your world turned upside down five months before you got on that plane.
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> My friend died. We had a car accident.
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> You were the driver and you’d been drinking? That would weigh heavily on anyone.
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> Well, there was an investigation, and I was exonerated.
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> But still put on desk duty.
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> Yeah, I couldn’t drive. I wasn’t ready. I didn’t want to.
So it was resolved, and she was officially exonerated, but still feels guilty. Her job is no longer in jeopardy since she was cleared for active detective work and resumed her duties.
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/55 "2018-10-04T20:37:35Z")
> [@Slash1972](#):
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> I thought we weren’t supposed to comment on the looks of a woman if it’s not germane to the topic?
I’m not sure it can be successfully argued that a lead character’s appearance isn’t germane to a discussion of a tv show.
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### Author:  [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/56 "2018-10-04T20:44:38Z")
> [@EllisDee](#):
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> I’m not sure it can be successfully argued that a lead character’s appearance isn’t germane to a discussion of a tv show.
The merits of the show depend on the lead character’s eyebrow appearance? Ok, sure.
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2018, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/57 "2018-10-04T20:49:46Z")
> [@Slash1972](#):
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> The merits of the show depend on the lead character’s eyebrow appearance? Ok, sure.
Who said depended on? Did they change the definition of “germane” while I wasn’t looking?
I’m saying character appearance is relevant in a discussion of a tv show. Full stop.
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### Author:  [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2018, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/58 "2018-10-05T12:16:27Z")
> [@DPRK](#):
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> So it was resolved, and she was officially exonerated, but still feels guilty. Her job is no longer in jeopardy since she was cleared for active detective work and resumed her duties.
Did I hear in the episode she got posthumously promoted to detective? How would that work? I assume she had already taken the exam/whatever before the flight, but still…
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### Author:  [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2018, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/59 "2018-10-05T12:39:26Z")
> [@EllisDee](#):
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> Who said depended on? Did they change the definition of “germane” while I wasn’t looking?
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> I’m saying character appearance is relevant in a discussion of a tv show. Full stop.
Ok, sure.
I sure hope they show more of that hot woman doctor! She’s fantastically hot! I hope she is in different stages of undress in the next few episodes. It will make the show so much better! She should really try to emphasize her breasts more, to really draw in the male viewers.
:rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/60 "2018-10-05T14:52:18Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#):
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> I just wish she’d pluck her eyebrows some.
> [@Misnomer](#):
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> I also noticed the eyebrows. 😃
You weren’t the only ones to notice, from [The Ringer](https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/10/2/17928468/manifest-episode-2-smoke-monster)
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> Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh), whose robust eyebrows I believed were Manifest’s main character until the smoke monster showed up…
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