.kaechops reviews Manifest Season 4, which returns with a satisfying start for its 2-part final season on Netflix:
never knew they had. Missing planes, government conspiracies, some sort of magical and a divine entity that aged a child up 5 and a half years for reasons unknown, all tied together with some ethereally glowing objects and brain scans. There’s a level of ridiculousness that we all signed up for here, and it’s finally on full display.
Season 4 starts out two years after the death of Grace Stone and the subsequent kidnapping of Eden Stone by Angelina, Season 3’s evangelical heretic who believed the baby to be her guardian angel. Ben is clearly living a version of his worst life trying to find Eden, having pushed anything to do with the June 2, 2024 death date or the rest of Flight 828’s passengers to the back of his mind. He has no leads, the cops have moved on, and life is only getting harder for 828ers everywhere.
While Ben runs himself ragged looking for Eden, Cal is trapped pretending to be someone different who isn’t allowed to have much of a life at all. Along with changing his name and faking his disappearance, Cal doesn’t get to have a social life outside of his family members and their close friends, and he’s clearly unhappy with the way his life has unfolded. To make things worse, Ben’s laser focus on finding Eden has Cal feeling even more unwanted.
Back to the larger plot at hand, Mick has a calling that leads her to a passenger in possession of Flight 828’s black box. Once the box is in the hands of Saanvi and Vance, more and more callings start to pop up for the Stones and other 828 passengers. Zeke also goes through his own struggles separate from the 828 crew when it comes to his empath powers, and all in all Netflix delivers us something that is very solidlywith no egregious changes to the format of the series.