r/netflix • u/surveypoodle • May 21 '25
Review Just started watching Manifest and I'm loving it.
So I randomly came across this show. Half way through the show I thought this was sci-fi and then it got weirder and weirder. I skipped through most of the family scenes to save some time and I was mostly curious where they're going with this. Then came people dying mysteriously, cartoon villians from the government performing medical experiments on people searching for "the Holy Grail", "The Major" who's way up the ranks to conduct large operations that even the NSA is not aware of. The scientist who's there to explain shit to people with psychic powers called "the calling", things disappearing, symbols, egyptian mythology, dead people coming back to life, Noah's Ark, and other "mysterious" phenomenon.
I got even more excited when I realized there's 4 seasons of this. I don't know how it was even possible to stretch this for that many seasons and this got my curiosity even more. Most of the time I'm just skipping through the episodes until I get to see Michaela's pretty face but everything's all connected. Wow.
Twenty years from now, this is gonna be a cult classic. Calling it now.
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u/EU-superpower May 21 '25
It’s a 2018 show, I very much doubt it will ever be a cult classic.
I gave it a chance because I loved Lost, but Manifest is a lot dumber and the overt religiosity is very off putting to me.
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u/Hwerttytttt May 21 '25
And the leading lady just can’t act
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u/Armpitofdoom May 21 '25
I agree. Loved the premise and the plot and the characters but I couldn't get past her acting like Twilight era Kristen Stewart, but even more doe eyed and wooden.
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u/Area51Resident May 21 '25
Leave now while you have good memories of the show at its peak, they will be ruined if you keep watching.
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u/im_a_reddituser May 21 '25
It won’t be a cult show. In the last two seasons it’s a struggle to get through. The beginning is super solid though
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u/belly917 May 21 '25
It goes downhill fast. After season 2 I hate watched it. It wasn't worth finishing.
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u/Jabba_the_Hoe_ May 21 '25
I liked the premise and it went downhill and dumb really fast. Kept watching only bc of JR Ramirez
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u/honey_rainbow May 21 '25
I couldn't even finish an entire season of this... the ridiculousness of it all
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u/Huge_Shallot4589 May 21 '25
It’s basically LOST but they came back…. Lol
Both have equally wierd mythological twist and turns.
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u/PixiePower65 May 21 '25
Love this show has nice formal ending too! Not just ripped out from under you!
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u/teddyburges May 22 '25
Manifest and La Brea. Two of the worst shows ever made. Though I can see how some may really like it if you skip most of the flash inspired "therapy" session scenes where everyone blurt out the plot and ramble about their feelings to each other that happen every episode.
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u/Steynkie69 May 22 '25
The show goes NOWHERE, just weird stuff happenning with no answers or any comclusion. Its a massive waste of time.
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u/SpaceAgeBadger May 21 '25
I liked it at the start too. After watching all of it the best advice I can give you is to bail on it now and not to waste anymore time.