![]() ![]() Its main focus is on the Stone family, specifically Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh), a former cop who was contemplating marrying her boyfriend Jared (J.R. While Lost was an ensemble drama, Manifest, at least in its first hour, doesn’t seem to be casting quite as wide of a character net. This isn’t entirely a carbon copy, though. Honestly, I was surprised that a Hurley look-alike didn’t suddenly stroll into the frame, Alfred Hitchcock–like, while walking a dog that resembles Vincent. There are other echoes of Lost, too, including hints that the passengers on the flight are interconnected, strange psychic phenomena possibly tied to that bout of turbulence, and a tendency to drop Easter egg references to the number 828 into certain scenes. ![]() This isn’t a duplication of what happens in the Lost pilot so much as a semi-recycling of the season-four story line when - spoiler alert, I guess, but come on, Lost ended in 2010 - six of the core characters, dubbed the Oceanic Six, returned to society after having been missing for 108 days. “You’ve all been missing or presumed dead,” one government representative tells them, “for five-and-a-half years.” Da- naaaaaaa! For those onboard, that seems like the end of the story, except that when they disembark, officials on the ground inform them that even though Flight 828 departed on April 7, 2013, it’s now November 4, 2018. But ultimately, the aircraft rights itself and lands safely in the Hudson Valley town of Newburgh. In midflight, a flash of lightning followed by extreme turbulence and a steep dive causes a panic among the passengers. The pilot, which airs Monday night and is the only episode NBC made available to critics in advance, doesn’t open with a crash, but it does begins with a strange occurrence aboard Montego Air Flight 828, headed from Montego Bay, Jamaica, to New York. Abram and Damon Lindelof’s influential sci-fi series in order to tell a story about people simultaneously robbed of precious years while also getting a second chance at life. That essentially describes Manifest, the new NBC drama that rips off certain elements of J.J. What is Lost, except generic and forgettable? Photo: NBC/Virginia Sherwood/NBC/Warner Bro Parveen Kaur, dealing with a shaky flight on Manifest. ![]()
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