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Bleacher Creature

(11,410 posts)
Tue Jun 22, 2021, 10:04 PM Jun 2021

I started watching Manifest last week and it was just cancelled.

Is it worth finishing? I'm most of the way through season one, but here that season three ends with a huge cliffhanger.

This is why I almost never start watching network shows anymore!

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I started watching Manifest last week and it was just cancelled. (Original Post) Bleacher Creature Jun 2021 OP
I watched the two seasons of Manifest MontanaMama Jun 2021 #1
Season 3 is on Hulu. madaboutharry Jun 2021 #2
I wouldn't have known this! MontanaMama Jun 2021 #4
Thanks! Hadn't thought to look there. nt Phoenix61 Jun 2021 #6
It Is Not Worth Investing Time In Any New Network Programs.... global1 Jun 2021 #3
Wow, you literally just said everything I've been thinking. Bleacher Creature Jun 2021 #5
Same thing does happen with Netflix and Amazon Prime exclusives Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2021 #8
Seems Like The Network Shows That Do Make It Are The Ones With Guns.... global1 Jun 2021 #9
One of the differences between American and English and Aussie shows Phoenix61 Jun 2021 #7
Cancelled? femmocrat Jun 2021 #10

MontanaMama

(23,952 posts)
1. I watched the two seasons of Manifest
Tue Jun 22, 2021, 10:10 PM
Jun 2021

on Netflix. I almost never start/finish any series. I get bored...Anyway, for some reason, I made it through the two seasons and I have to say I enjoyed it. There were flaws in terms of it being predictable and there were other things I would critique but all in all it was entertaining. I was sad that Netflix only had two seasons...there’s a season 3?

MontanaMama

(23,952 posts)
4. I wouldn't have known this!
Tue Jun 22, 2021, 10:24 PM
Jun 2021

I’m such a nerd with tv...and almost never invest the time in a series. Thx.

global1

(25,861 posts)
3. It Is Not Worth Investing Time In Any New Network Programs....
Tue Jun 22, 2021, 10:22 PM
Jun 2021

I've watched Manifest from its beginning and am/was hooked. I don't know how these networks make decisions cancelling such programs - but I'm not going to get taken in again by them.

I will not watch any of their new scifi programs in the future because somebody at the network always gets a bug up their behind and they don't allow their loyal viewers to get closure.

We will never know why these people and plane came back or what would ultimately happen to them because they will not allow us a series finale.

I've had it with the networks.

They might as well not offer any new programming in the future - because I for one won't even get started with any new programs.

I will not invest any more time in any new program offerings.

They should just stick to running I Love Lucy and the Dick Van Dyke shows.

Bleacher Creature

(11,410 posts)
5. Wow, you literally just said everything I've been thinking.
Tue Jun 22, 2021, 10:43 PM
Jun 2021

I was a huge fan of Lost, Alias, Fringe and a few others that ended on their own terms (although say what you will about how they ended).

Since then, I've gotten burned investing my time a graveyard if sci-fi shows that never had a chance to finish - Flashforward, Terra Nova, Alcatraz, just to name a few.

From now on, if it isn't on Netflix, Prime, or Hulu, I'm not wasting my time anymore. It's crazy how networks just pull the plug on these shows without any closure whatsoever.

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
8. Same thing does happen with Netflix and Amazon Prime exclusives
Tue Jun 22, 2021, 11:59 PM
Jun 2021

Maybe not as much but they also don't have as many shows. Bottom-line, it's not only a network thing. The NF show 'The Get Down' only lasted 1 season, for example.

If enough people were watching to justify the budget and turn a profit, it wouldn't be cancelled.

Why don't you blame 'other people not liking the same shows I do'?

BTW I started watching S1 on Netflix but couldn't get through it, made it to like episode 8 or so before I lost interest ... it kinda got too hokey for my tastes. Plus the 'evil MIC experiments' storyline is kinda tired at this point so a show based on it for me has to be more special than this one was.

MHO

global1

(25,861 posts)
9. Seems Like The Network Shows That Do Make It Are The Ones With Guns....
Wed Jun 23, 2021, 07:48 AM
Jun 2021

violence and killing - the police shows, etc.

Shows that make you think or get your creative juices flowing - get cancelled.

One show that should be cancelled is - Debris. That show never made any sense from the start and every episode just got more and more sillier.

How a show like Debris can make it and a show like Manifest be cancelled is beyond me.

Phoenix61

(17,515 posts)
7. One of the differences between American and English and Aussie shows
Tue Jun 22, 2021, 10:46 PM
Jun 2021

They seem to be more mini-series. Clear beginning, middle, and an actual ending.

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
10. Cancelled?
Wed Jun 23, 2021, 07:49 AM
Jun 2021

Geez. They couldn’t even tie up the cliffhanger(s)? I watched all three seasons and season 3 was the best in terms of moving the plot along. Bummer!!!

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