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When Does Manifest Season 5 Come Out? Is It Renewed?

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Manifest ended after Season 4.

IMDb

7.0/10

Seasons

4

Episodes

62

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Network
NBC
First aired
2018-09-24
Last aired
2023-06-02
Runtime
42 min
Rated
TV-14

Awards 1 win & 6 nominations total

Predictive Logic Analysis

Manifest has concluded its run. Production records list the series as ended, meaning the story has been brought to a planned close rather than left open. Barring a revival, there is no Season 5 in development.

What is Manifest about?

Manifest is built around one of those high-concept premises that television loves: a plane lands, and the world has moved on five years without its passengers. Families have grieved, spouses have remarried, children have grown. The show is genuinely good at the immediate, human mess of that situation, particularly in its first season, when Melissa Roxburgh and Josh Dallas are navigating what it means to come back to lives that closed around your absence. Roxburgh in particular brings more to the role than the material sometimes deserves.

The tone is a specific kind of network-drama earnest, somewhere between procedural and mythology-heavy serialized mystery. The passengers start receiving visions they call "callings," which guide them toward helping strangers in need, and this is where the show gets tricky. At its best it feels like Lost's more optimistic cousin. At its worst it stacks mysteries on top of unanswered mysteries until the show is mostly architecture with no interior. The religious undertones grow heavier as the seasons progress, and viewers who find that kind of cosmic-destiny framing irritating will find less and less to hold onto.

NBC canceled it after season three, and the fan response was loud enough that Netflix picked it up for a fourth and final season. That story is almost more interesting than anything in the show itself: Manifest became a genuine streaming hit after cancellation, people bingeing the backlog and then demanding resolution. Critics were never especially enthusiastic, but audiences voted with their queues. The IMDb score of 7 reflects that split fairly accurately, a show its fans are deeply invested in and everyone else finds perfectly skippable.

Season four wraps the mythology up, which is more than most resurrected shows manage. Whether the resolution satisfies depends almost entirely on how much tolerance you have for shows that treat faith and fate as literal plot mechanics.

Created by Jeff Rake

Themes

new york citytime travelinvestigationpresumed deadpassengersairplane flight

Is Manifest renewed or cancelled?

Working against it

high

The series is listed as ended

Why did Manifest end?

Manifest is genuinely unusual in television history because it was cancelled and then un-cancelled, which shapes the whole story of how it ended. NBC pulled the plug after season three in 2021, despite a passionate fan campaign that drove the show to the top of Netflix's most-watched charts after its back catalog landed on the platform. Netflix took notice, picked it up, and ordered a fourth and final season. That final season was always framed as a conclusion, not an open-ended renewal, so the show ended on its own terms rather than getting cut off again.

The Netflix deal was structured specifically to wrap the story up. Creator Jeff Rake had long talked about a six-season plan, so season four was a compromise, split into two parts to give the narrative enough room to land. By that point, the show had found its real audience on streaming rather than traditional broadcast, which is partly why NBC had trouble justifying its costs in the first place. Live ratings had softened considerably by season three, and NBC operates on a very different economic model than a streamer that values catalog depth and subscriber retention over weekly numbers.

So the ending was planned, if not quite the ending Rake originally envisioned. Manifest got more closure than most cancelled shows ever receive, which is rare enough to be worth noting. It concluded because Netflix was willing to fund a finale season for a built-in audience of binge-watchers, not because anyone felt the story had reached its natural limit. Whether the ending satisfied that audience is a separate question, but the show did get to finish.

Manifest Season 5 Release Date

No new season is expected. Manifest has ended, so there is no upcoming release to anticipate unless a revival is announced.

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Best & worst episodes

Manifest seasons

Season 12018 · 16 ep
  • 1. Pilot2018-09-24 · ★ 7.7
  • 2. Reentry2018-10-01 · ★ 7.6
  • 3. Turbulence2018-10-08 · ★ 7.5
  • 4. Unclaimed Baggage2018-10-15 · ★ 7.4
  • 5. Connecting Flights2018-10-22 · ★ 7.4
  • 6. Off Radar2018-11-05 · ★ 7.5
  • 7. S.N.A.F.U.2018-11-12 · ★ 7.5
  • 8. Point of No Return2018-11-19 · ★ 7.5
  • 9. Dead Reckoning2018-11-26 · ★ 7.5
  • 10. Crosswinds2019-01-07 · ★ 7.5
  • 11. Contrails2019-01-14 · ★ 7.6
  • 12. Vanishing Point2019-01-21 · ★ 7.6
  • 13. Cleared for Approach2019-01-28 · ★ 7.5
  • 14. Upgrade2019-02-04 · ★ 7.5
  • 15. Hard Landing2019-02-11 · ★ 7.5
  • 16. Estimated Time of Departure2019-02-18 · ★ 7.6
Season 22020 · 13 ep
  • 1. Fasten Your Seatbelts2020-01-06 · ★ 7.6
  • 2. Grounded2020-01-13 · ★ 7.5
  • 3. False Horizon2020-01-20 · ★ 7.7
  • 4. Black Box2020-01-27 · ★ 7.6
  • 5. Coordinated Flight2020-02-03 · ★ 7.4
  • 6. Return Trip2020-02-10 · ★ 7.5
  • 7. Emergency Exit2020-02-17 · ★ 7.7
  • 8. Carry On2020-03-02 · ★ 7.5
  • 9. Airplane Bottles2020-03-09 · ★ 7.6
  • 10. Course Deviation2020-03-16 · ★ 7.6
  • 11. Unaccompanied Minors2020-03-23 · ★ 7.5
  • 12. Call Sign2020-03-30 · ★ 7.5
  • 13. Icing Conditions2020-04-06 · ★ 7.7
Season 32021 · 13 ep
  • 1. Tailfin2021-04-01 · ★ 7.5
  • 2. Deadhead2021-04-08 · ★ 7.5
  • 3. Wingman2021-04-15 · ★ 7.5
  • 4. Tailspin2021-04-22 · ★ 7.5
  • 5. Water Landing2021-04-29 · ★ 7.4
  • 6. Graveyard Spiral2021-04-29 · ★ 7.5
  • 7. Precious Cargo2021-05-06 · ★ 7.4
  • 8. Destination Unknown2021-05-06 · ★ 7.4
  • 9. Bogey2021-05-13 · ★ 7.4
  • 10. Compass Calibration2021-05-20 · ★ 7.4
  • 11. Duty Free2021-06-03 · ★ 7.3
  • 12. Mayday (1)2021-06-10 · ★ 7.5
  • 13. Mayday (2)2021-06-10 · ★ 7.7
Season 42022 · 20 ep
  • 1. Touch-and-Go2022-11-04 · ★ 7.3
  • 2. All-Call2022-11-04 · ★ 7.4
  • 3. High Flight2022-11-04 · ★ 7.4
  • 4. Go-Around2022-11-04 · ★ 7.3
  • 5. Squawk2022-11-04 · ★ 7.4
  • 6. Relative Bearing2022-11-04 · ★ 7.2
  • 7. Romeo2022-11-04 · ★ 7.4
  • 8. Full Upright and Locked Position2022-11-04 · ★ 7.4
  • 9. Rendezvous2022-11-04 · ★ 7.5
  • 10. Inversion Illusion2022-11-04 · ★ 7.5
  • 11. Final Descent2023-06-02 · ★ 7.1
  • 12. Bug Out2023-06-02 · ★ 7.2
  • 13. Ghost Plane2023-06-02 · ★ 7.1
  • 14. Fata Morgana2023-06-02 · ★ 7.2
  • 15. Throttle2023-06-02 · ★ 7.2
  • 16. Furball2023-06-02 · ★ 7.1
  • 17. Threshold2023-06-02 · ★ 7.2
  • 18. Lift/Drag2023-06-02 · ★ 7.2
  • 19. Formation2023-06-02 · ★ 7.3
  • 20. Final Boarding2023-06-02 · ★ 7.9

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Manifest cast

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Melissa Roxburgh

Melissa Roxburgh

Michaela Stone

Josh Dallas

Josh Dallas

Ben Stone

J.R. Ramirez

J.R. Ramirez

Jared Vasquez

Luna Blaise

Luna Blaise

Olive Stone

Parveen Kaur

Parveen Kaur

Saanvi Bahl

Matt Long

Matt Long

Zeke Landon

Holly Taylor

Holly Taylor

Angelina Meyer

Daryl Edwards

Daryl Edwards

Robert Vance

Ty Doran

Ty Doran

Cal Stone

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    Frequently asked

    When does Manifest Season 5 come out?
    Manifest ended after Season 4.
    Is Manifest renewed or cancelled?
    Manifest has ended. Its final season has already aired and no further seasons are expected.
    Why did Manifest end?
    Manifest is genuinely unusual in television history because it was cancelled and then un-cancelled, which shapes the whole story of how it ended. NBC pulled the plug after season three in 2021, despite a passionate fan campaign that drove the show to the top of Netflix's most-watched charts after its back catalog landed on the platform. Netflix took notice, picked it up, and ordered a fourth and final season. That final season was always framed as a conclusion, not an open-ended renewal, so the show ended on its own terms rather than getting cut off again.
    How many seasons of Manifest are there?
    Manifest has aired 4 seasons so far.
    How many episodes of Manifest are there?
    There are 62 episodes of Manifest across 4 seasons.
    Who created Manifest?
    Manifest was created by Jeff Rake.
    Where can I watch Manifest?
    Manifest is available to stream on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads, Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies and Fandango At Home.
    What is Manifest's IMDb rating?
    Manifest holds an IMDb rating of 7/10 from 103,401 votes.