Sunday, October 14, 2018

Manifest Season 1 Episode 2 "Reentry" Review


The passengers find themselves under government scrutiny; Ben tries to help a fellow passenger reconnect with his son; Cal is approached by an obsessive stranger; Grace and Olive disagree over revealing a devastating secret.

This was a really interesting episode that had some great moments to it. Everything around Ben and Radd was really great with there journey to prove Radd's son innocent of the robbery he was framed for. The actual reveal of who the robber was and why they were willing to let Radd's son take the fall was interesting but it also felt a little rushed and felt like they just picked someone random to be the real villain. Everything with Michaela was great with her working to get her job back and find her own place in the world but she also is having to confront everything she managed to avoid for five years. Then Michaela confronting her friend about the marriage and everything was interesting with the fact that Michaela was willing to lie about not wanting to marry Jared but we as viewers know otherwise. Then Cal struggling to get back to a normal life was interesting with how they chose to show it by having him missing his own stuff. The only part that bugged me about that was how long it took Olive to reveal that she kept all of Cal's stuff because she could see how much pain he was in but yet she waited several days to get his stuff. Then Ben discovering Grace's other man was weird with how they chose to approach it with Ben figuring it out when he helped Oliver pick up Cal's stuff. Then how Ben confronted Grace about it was weird because he kind of made this seem like he was saying look I don't care what you did while I was gone but I'm here now so just focus on me, and that was odd how willing Grace was to just abandon this other guy for Ben. Then just overall this was an interesting and great episode and I'm excited to see what will happen in the next episode.
  

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