I like Scifi. A lot. So, when NBC debuted their "let's see if something like Manifest will work" I was game. And I've hung in there. But. Here's the thing, it's not bad. But it's not good. And much like the mysteries of the show I've spent way too much time trying to get my Covid-addled mind to figure out why it doesn't work. Sure, there are a lot of threads, perhaps too many. And there is an unexplained leap in technology -- people transport from one location to another and that's just accepted (this isn't Trek, it's planet Earth). But that isn't it. The actors are good, it's a top-notch cast, and the weekly debris findings have unique and unexpected twists. And yet. By the first or second commercial break, I'm usually glancing at my email. All I can say is that this show doesn't have forward motion, tension, or much energy. When a commercial break comes for "Manifest" I'm grabbing the remote because I have to see what happens next. That's not the case here. It isn't an overt thing, just a subtle lack which makes the show less than it should be.
