Manifest Is Similar to Lost, But In The Worst Way Possible

In 2018, the first season of the fantasy series Manifest was released, and opinions about it were divided into two camps. Some praised it, others called it a copycat of Lost, which once disappointed fans with a not-so-thought-out ending.

According to the plot, Flight 828 is on its way from Jamaica to New York. At some point, the plane enters a zone of severe turbulence that even the pilots were not expecting. And just as suddenly, the turbulence disappears.

When the plane arrives in New York, it is met by police cars and ambulances. The people's slight fear is replaced by incomprehension and then horror when a representative of the NSA explains that their plane has been missing for five and a half years.

There is only one similarity to Lost at the moment: the plane. But if in the most sensational series of the 2000s people ended up on a desert island, in Manifest they find themselves on Earth from the very first episode, almost immediately reunited with their relatives and friends.

However, as you watch the rest of the episodes, it becomes clear why Manifest has been compared to Lost. Almost every episode features flashbacks, either from a missing plane or from the main characters' relatives.

However, Manifest was most compared to Lost when the series ended. Fans were disappointed not only by the finale itself, but also by the fact that Manifest, repeating the fate of the most mysterious series of the 2010s, simply did not reveal many secrets accumulated over four seasons.

For six seasons, the creators of Lost piled mystery upon mystery, and by the end of the series, there were so many of them that solving each one became an impossible task.

The writers have even admitted that they created some of the island's secrets with no clear plan for how they would be revealed in the future.

In Lost, the characters had to enter the combination 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 into a special computer every 108 minutes. The writers were never able to explain what these numbers meant. One of the producers said that this question will never be answered, and he doesn't even know how they could explain it.

However, both series revealed their main mysteries – where Flight 828 was for five years and what happened to the people who ended up on the mysterious island. Well, thanks for that, at least.