The curious case of Manifest is one that’s delighted and enraged Netflix subscribers in equal measure, but at least we know that Stephen King has gotten around to finishing the fourth and final season.
In an age where the streaming service has repeatedly ignited outrage by canceling fan favorite episodic exclusives on a whim, stepping in to save the former NBC series from certain doom to renew it for a bumper fourth run of 20 installments continued the company’s antagonistic method for deciding which projects get to live or die.
Either way, it proved to be a shrewd move given that the back half of season 4 is already the second most-watched show on the platform’s worldwide watch-list behind only Arnold Schwarzenegger’s FUBAR, with King now trying to gauge the reactions of viewers everywhere by wondering what the consensus is.
One of the first accounts to reply was that of Netflix itself, with the platform no doubt thrilled to be jumping straight into the mentions of such a high-profile and popular figure on social media.
Close behind was Manifest‘s official handle, too, so both the series and its home streamer were evidently excited to get the ball rolling directly after King sought to read the room.
Now that Manifest is over, Netflix will be looking for its next major multi-season success story, but that’s going to prove increasingly difficult to find if it continues axing so many of its most intriguing and ambition OGs with the potential to fill the void.
