'Manifest': Fans claim that there hasn't been enough trauma to substantiate the time lapse in the show

The characters and the world around them seemed to have just returned to normal the moment the plane landed.
PUBLISHED NOV 21, 2018

NBC's Jeff Rake-directed show, 'Manifest', starring Josh Dallas, Melissa Roxburgh, Athena Karkanis, J.R.Ramirez, and Parveen Kaur, follows the aftermath of the sudden re-appearance of Montego Air Flight 828 which went missing almost five years back when the plane left from Jamaica. Although the passengers have returned after five and a half years none of them have aged a day, but the world around them has moved on presuming that they were dead. 

While the show has maintained a consistent pace with its story-telling, fans are not satisfied with the depiction of trauma that the passengers are now suffering from. Considering the fact that these people were not present for five and a half years, and have suddenly resurfaced only to find out that they no more belong to this world, it can be said that the show has fallen short of playing with the characters' psyche. One Reddit user posted, "A pet peeve of mine is, shows not giving emotional trauma the weight it deserves, and it had an abundance of material to focus on with Ben and Michaela."

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