Netflix’s Manifest follows the passengers of Flight 828, as they depart Jamaica in April 2013 and, somehow, against logic, return home in November 2018.
They are unaged, with no explanation for what happened as, from their perspective, absolutely nothing unusual happened aboard the flight that would account for their missing years.
However, as one would suspect, returning to a life where you had been presumed to be dead — allowing your loved ones to move on without you — is not easy.
This is exactly what happens to Michaela Stone (Melissa Roxburgh), who finds that her boyfriend and would-be fiancé Jared (J.R.
Ramirez) has married her best friend Lourdes (Victoria Cartagena).
Rather quickly, that situation works itself out, ending with Lourdes’ fast departure and closure on the situation.
But, one thread that was never fully resolved, despite taking up significantly more time and having a much larger impact on the first season, is that…
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