# 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
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/141 "2018-11-11T14:12:15Z")
I totally agree that was stupid and poorly handled, but that type of thing can be good if done well.
My favorite bit of the first Independence Day was when the pilots are being recruited _to fight aliens they can see in giant ships in the sky_, and then Randy Quaid’s character starts talking about being abducted and they all start rolling their eyes.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2018, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/142 "2018-11-13T04:46:19Z")
I really enjoyed this weeks episode. Glad to see Vance is shifting to the other side. The previews for next week look very interesting.
I am puzzled by the mind link lady. It’s not clear yet if she’s being duped or is a part of the experiments.
The show is getting a lot of attention. Ratings seem good. Hopefully it’ll get a season 2.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2018, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/143 "2018-11-13T04:57:18Z")
I just want to know where they went for 5 1/2 years, and why. Yeah, I know they’re getting to that, but still…folds arms and taps foot…
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2018, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/144 "2018-11-13T05:21:04Z")
This reviewer has a good guess. It’s as good an explanation I’ve seen. It’s towards the bottom of the article.
😉
> **[Opinion | NBC's "Manifest" seems awful on paper. So how is it one of fall...](https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/nbc-s-manifest-isn-t-next-lost-it-has-improbably-ncna935481)**
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> If “Manifest” can follow in the footsteps of “This Is Us” and reveal its answers without losing interest, NBC might have another winner on its hands.
It’ll take awhile to find out what happened on the plane. They want this show to go a few seasons.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/145 "2018-11-13T05:47:35Z")
I also suspect that the apolitical nature of the show is because it was proposed many years ago, and rejected over and over again until NBC finally picked it up.
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### Author:  [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2018, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/146 "2018-11-13T13:23:37Z")
I’m about ready to bail on the show. Basically, I wanted an SFy show, so all the other ‘features’ that article talked about – the cop show and doctor show and conspiracy show and family trauma show – are things to suffer through while muttering ‘get on with it.’ ☹
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2018, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/147 "2018-11-13T21:11:34Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#):
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> I’m about ready to bail on the show. Basically, I wanted an SFy show, so all the other ‘features’ that article talked about – the cop show and doctor show and conspiracy show and family trauma show – are things to suffer through while muttering ‘get on with it.’ ☹
Yep. Especially the family drama show.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2018, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/148 "2018-11-29T05:27:15Z")
Monday night, they aired the last episode until January 7th, and it left multiple cliffhangers and plot twists. Among other things, Vance is dead.
Next year, maybe we’ll find out more.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2018, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/149 "2018-11-29T05:41:54Z")
Oh man. Just when I started liking the character he gets killed off.
☹
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2018, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/150 "2018-11-29T05:43:33Z")
> [@aceplace57](#):
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> Oh man. Just when I started liking the character he gets killed off.
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> ☹
I’m sure that will be addressed big-time in future episodes.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2018, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/151 "2018-11-29T12:56:30Z")
I like how they addressed Ben and Grace’s marriage. For him, it’s been a few days. For her, it was five years and she buried her son. That’s a big chasm to cross. Especially since they showed Cal’s return to school as fairly smooth.
So Autumn is a mole. But if the head of Singularity is dead (he’s the one who handed her the burner) who is she texting?
I REALLY don’t want Michaela and Jared to get together. He’s moved on, and I don’t like that Lourdes is being pushed to the side.
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### Author:  [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2018, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/152 "2018-11-29T13:10:47Z")
> [@aceplace57](#):
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> Oh man. Just when I started liking the character he gets killed off.
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> ☹
Reported dead is not necessarily dead. In fact, “I saw him alive being put into an ambulance” and later “Oh, he didn’t make it” probably equals “Certainly not dead”
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2018, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/153 "2018-11-30T04:17:59Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#):
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> Reported dead is not necessarily dead. In fact, “I saw him alive being put into an ambulance” and later “Oh, he didn’t make it” probably equals “Certainly not dead”
True, especially on this program.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2019, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/154 "2019-01-09T00:14:16Z")
The series resumed last night. Good episode with plenty of twists, which I won’t give away for those of you who haven’t seen it yet.
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### Author:  [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/155 "2019-02-13T00:40:13Z")
Aunt Mickie has an interesting way of pronouncing “HOME-aside”. I dunno where the actress is from but, damn, couldn’t the director of the episode take her aside and explain that’s not how normal people say the word homicide, at least not in most of America, and certainly not in NYC where the character is supposed to be from. Took me way more out of the episode than her eyebrows ever could.
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2019, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/156 "2019-02-14T03:42:17Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> The series resumed last night. Good episode with plenty of twists, which I won’t give away for those of you who haven’t seen it yet.
There were some serious issues:
1. The internet Flight 828 hater guy had NO way of knowing the armored car guy was like the 828ers. Only a few even suspected that, and it wasn’t even confirmed until the Doc got her tests back and only a few know about the blood.
2. Even if he walks on murder there’s still bank robbery, stealing a electric co van, and violating parole.
3. How did that patrol guy think the cave dude was breaking in? He had no burglar tools.
4. Mick and co know the cave guys last name, why not just look him up or tell her partner?
Too many damn holes.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2019, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/157 "2019-02-19T04:32:24Z")
So, did anyone else see tonight’s episode?
If you haven’t, or even if you have, it can be summed up this way: Wow, that was weird.
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2019, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/158 "2019-02-19T06:04:30Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> So, did anyone else see tonight’s episode?
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> If you haven’t, or even if you have, it can be summed up this way: Wow, that was weird.
Thank you for not spoiling it. Altho certainly this isnt a “no spoiler” zone, on the nite of the broadcast it’s better to be careful.
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### Author:  [@StraightTalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StraightTalk)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/159 "2019-02-19T16:28:14Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> So, did anyone else see tonight’s episode?
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> If you haven’t, or even if you have, it can be summed up this way: Wow, that was weird.
Weird is an understatement.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/160 "2019-02-19T22:24:15Z")
Genuine spoiler:
Whaddya bet Grace’s pregnancy will last 8 months, 28 days?
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