MANIFEST Roundtable: Coordinated Flight

This week on Manifest’s season 2’s 5th episode:

When Grace and Cal are involved in a suspicious hit-and-run, Ben is determined to get to the bottom of it. Michaela investigates a brutal attack at the Church of the Believers, but finds her efforts stymied by Adrian’s refusal to cooperate. Zeke is tested when he tries to make amends with someone from his past. Guest starring Jared Grimes, Danielle Burgess and Olli Haaskivi.

Join us as we use our new ratings system known as SASSY – S(tupid), A(wesome), S(o) S(o) and Y(Your Thoughts):

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Stupid:

Roz: Ben, Ben, Ben! Why the hell are you taking out your issues about Olive on Adrian and the Church? Is he really the biggest problem you have?

Cay: Yeah, Ben has a hair trigger sometimes and it’s definitely going to get him in trouble. He could absolutely get arrested for assault for that. Not to mention damaging his relationship with Olive.

And then there is Jared!!!! He’s that mad at Michaela that he’s going to conspire against her and throw all his morals away to boot for a new bedmate?  Tipping off the Xers, that’s low!

Awesome:

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Cay: Cheers to Olive for coming clean to Michaela and her for giving her good advice. While I’m not sure where things are going with the church, I definitely like her new positive outlook a lot better than her moody angst from before.  Now that’s she’s come clean to Grace and Ben, I hope that she can keep her positive outlook.

Love the connection from the Tarot card to everything else, especially since it happened years before the flight returned.

Roz: I love how that tarot card might mean something else to the whole set of passengers at this point? I don’t know too much about The Star in readings, but it’s better than nothing from Ben at this point.

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So So:

Roz: What the eff is up with the Xers and Ben’s new colleague? I don’t think I like that we have so many enemies in close proximity to everyone else we care about.

Cay: The fact that I barely remember what the Xers are suggests that they probably should have brought it up a bit more this season! But yea, is the new work colleague one of them, or part of the “classier” “official” conspiracy (i.e. involved with the Major). Many of the Xers seem more thuggish than academic and calculating.

Your Thoughts:

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Roz: We’re adding more eggs into a very complicated juggling act and I don’t think it’s going to ease up soon.

Cay: So much for Michaela being happy for more than a few days at a time! Zeke’s wife (ex?) really complicates things. Not only is she there in general, but she’s also a junkie. As is Zeke didn’t come with enough baggage.

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