![]() Their struggle to figure out how and if they can be a family again creates a “This Is Us”-style drama - tears included. Ben Stone (Josh Dallas) and his son Cal (Jack Messina) were bumped back to Flight 828 but his wife Grace (Athena Karkanis) and daughter Olive (Luna Blaise) were on the original flight which left just hours before. So far, the show has mostly focused on one extended family, the Stones. But by starting the series with the characters arriving back home, the mystery of what happened to the plane in "Manifest" is bolstered by the complicated mini-dramas of families and friends dealing with reunions after years apart and the general aftermath of lives that disappeared in the space of a single airplane ride. “Lost” wasn’t concerned with what would happen to its characters if they ever did get return to civilization. The result is a premise that seems to have been pitched as “what if ‘Lost,’ but ‘Found?’” It’s not a bad idea. It’s also better than it has any right to be on paper, which may account for why so many are tuning in. It’s called “Manifest,” a show that is basically a conglomerate of several other popular shows past and present, with dialogue so wooden it’s a wonder the actors don’t get splinters in their mouths while talking.Īnd yet, as of this writing, it is one of the top five most watched broadcast shows for fall 2018, the fourth most popular scripted broadcast show on TV currently and the most popular new scripted series this season, according to Nielsen’s household ratings metric. ![]() Did anyone at Fox know that in 1986, a little cartoon about about a dingbat nuclear safety inspector and his family would not only put them on the map, but still be running in the next century? This year, the surprise breakout hit no one saw coming is on NBC. If someone told HBO in 2008 that ten years down the line, a show about dragons would be the biggest series they ever created, chances are they wouldn’t have believed you. You never know what will hit big in the television landscape.
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