Manifest Season 4's Massive Time Jump Risks Skipping 6 Huge Stories

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Manifest’s massive time skip risks skipping six huge stories for season 4. Apparently, the next season won’t immediately pick up where things left off in the season 3 finale. In a recent interview, Ben actor Josh Dallas revealed that Manifest season 4 will begin with a two-year time jump.

While two years is obviously a long time, it’s not altogether shocking that the series is taking this approach. The show taking this route was one of the many possible options that were considered to be on the table in regards to a solution toManifest’s timeline problem. Manifest showrunner Jeff Rake originally planned for the show to last six seasons, which gave the series a timetable for how long it would take for the story to play out. Manifest clearly lined up the show’s planned final season with the Flight 828 passengers’ dreaded Death Date. Since season 1, the main characters have been under the impression that they had until June 2, 2024 to solve the Death Date mystery. It was always understood that beating the Death Date would be the final challenge for the passengers to overcome before the show’s conclusion, but Manifest’s early ending complicated this plan.

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With Manifest coming to a close in season 4, it became necessary for the show to find a way to get the Flight 828 passengers to June 2024 in the span of a single season, as opposed to three. Some believed that Manifest would accomplish this goal by delivering several time jumps every few episodes, but that won’t be the cast at all. Instead, Manifest will jump ahead by two years at the start of the season. Arguably the biggest concern about this though, is that this decision could result in Manifest skipping six