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13th Aug2025

‘Manifest: The Complete Series’ Blu-ray Review

by Jason Lockard

Stars: Melissa Roxburgh, Josh Dallas, Athena Karkanis, J.R. Ramirez, Luna Blaise, Jack Messina | Created by Jeff Rake

When you think of supernatural TV dramas in history, several stand out: The X Files, The Twilight Zone, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Stranger Things, Forever Knight, just to name a few. In 2018, Jeff Rake (Executive Producer of Boston Legal) created a new supernatural drama entitled Manifest. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, after releasing this series on DVD a few years ago, have decided to give this series an upgrade release with the complete series on Blu-ray.

During a transoceanic journey, Montego Air Flight 828 disappears, presumed lost at sea. Five years later, the plane lands safely – but for those on board, only five hours have passed. Both a high-concept mystery and a relationship drama about interrupted lives, Manifest centers on the supernaturally fractured bonds between the survivors and their loved ones who’ve spent years moving on without them. As the government investigates what really happened on their flight, the survivors begin to ask themselves why it happened…and what it means. While the mystery of Flight 828 unfolds and these broken souls try to repair themselves and the world around them, the series follows their intersecting lives and connections as they search for an ultimate purpose that may be their destiny.

Manifest could easily have lost its way and collapsed under its own initial story. But as they moved on to season two, the character development got deeper, and we found more to the story for these people, and thus we became more invested in their lives. The episodes were crafted so well, the dialogue is great, and the cast is good. Manifest really takes a page from the playbook of the show Lost and tries to explain a mystery in real time.

All 62 episodes are spread across 13 Blu-ray discs:

Season One:

Disc 1: “Pilot”, “Reentry”, “Turbulence”, “Unclaimed Baggage”, “Connecting Flights”, “Off Radar”
Disc 2: “S.N.A.F.U.”, “Point of No Return”, “Dead Reckoning”, “Crosswinds”, “Contrails”
Disc 3: “Vanishing Point”, “Cleared for Approach”, “Upgrade”, “Hard Landing”, “Time of Departure”

Season Two:

Disc 1: “Fasten Your Seatbelts”, “Call Sign”, “False Horizon”, “Black Box”, “Coordinated Flight”
Disc 2: “Return Trip”, “Emergency Exit”, “Carry On”, “Airplane Bottles”, “Course Deviation”
Disc 3: “Unaccompanied Minors”, “Call Sign”, “Icing Conditions”

Season Three:

Disc 1: “Tailfin”, “Deadhead”, “Wingman”, “Tailspin”, “Water Landing”
Disc 2: “Graveyard Spiral”, “Precious Cargo”, “Destination Unknown”, “Bogey”, “Compass Calibration”
Disc 3: “Duty Free”, “Mayday: Part One”, “Mayday: Part Two”

Season Four:

Disc 1: “Touch-and-Go”, “All-Call”, “High Flight”, “Go-Around”, “Squawk”
Disc 2: “Relative Bearing”, “Romeo”, “Upright & Locked Position”, “Rendezvous”, “Inversion Illusion”
Disc 3: “Final Descent”, “Bug Out”, “Ghost Plane”, “Fata Morgana”, “Throttle”
Disc 4: “Furball”, “Threshold”, “Lift/Drag”, “Formation”, “Final Boarding”

These episodes have been transferred to Blu-ray in 1080p and are presented in 1.78:1 aspect ratio. The audio track is an English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1. There is also the option for English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing. The episodes look crisp and clean, and sound clear on Blu-ray. But the real downside here is the total and complete lack of bonus features.

Warner Bros. released the complete series of Manifest on DVD a few years ago, and now the Blu-ray, without anything extra. In my humble opinion, there should be a reason to want to upgrade other than just that it is now in HD. As for the packaging, this release leaves a lot to be desired. There is no episode guide, not even on the discs. The Blu-ray discs are housed in an Epik Pak tray that just sits inside the case. This isn’t the only release that is housed like this. It seems to be the new way to go for box releases.

Manifest was an entertaining series, but I feel this Blu-ray release needed a lot more than what it got here; it’s kind of disappointing!