Manifest – High Flight – Review

High Flight is one other emotional episode that heals relationships, explores different messy ones, and provides us some solutions in regards to the central thriller of the present whereas on the similar time giving us new and interesting questions, as this present is understood to do. Let’s dive in!

An important treasure hunt

After lastly getting affirmation that Eden remains to be alive, Ben wastes no time in recruiting his household and Jared to assist him get the seek for her began once more. Jared, in flip, means that the Registry is their finest guess, as their hostility and mistrust in the direction of the passengers can work of their benefit with regards to catching Angelina. This offers them the additional advantage of working with Drea, who, as we discovered final episode, is sleeping with Jared. When Michaela meets up together with her and teases her about having spent the night time at Jared’s, we realise that Mick has identified about this the entire time and is completely effective with it. Jared has been romantically concerned with Mick’s finest pal earlier than, however whereas Lourdes did not come to the hangar to inform Mick about it to her face, Drea is doing the whole lot proper by being upfront together with her. It’s like Mick has been granted a do-over of what occurred in season 1. And she’s now far sufficient faraway from her relationship with Jared (and really fortunately married) that it not impacts her to see him with another person. In truth, she appears fairly completely happy for her pal and her ex.

When a Calling takes Mick in a brand new course, Ben is left to analyze with Jared and Drea. They go to the library at which Angelina and Eden had been final noticed. There, Ben will get a really ominous Calling that (unbeknownst to him) connects him with Eagan, who remains to be in jail for holding Vance’s son hostage. Despite how a lot of a menace Eagan will be, it is all the time a pleasure for me to see him, given how a lot I take pleasure in his strains. “You’re hiding manic pixie homicide lady” has shortly turn out to be one in every of my favourites. 

This episode additionally offers us a couple of reminders of how a lot of a gap Grace’s demise has left in Ben’s life. It’s heartbreaking to see him remind the lady on the library that Angelina is not Eden’s mom, however the scene by which Ben talks to a photograph of Grace is much more of a intestine punch. He’s doing all of this not only for Eden, however for Grace too. He promised her, in any case. And simply as he is emotionally connecting with Grace by speaking to her photograph, the Callings join him to Eden. Showing her drawings on Ben’s partitions is among the most inventive Callings up to now, and I really like how this present always discover new methods to reinvent and visualise these Callings.

In a heartbreaking flashback, we see how Ben remoted himself from Olive and the way he rejected any assist from her. He went so far as to yell at her, which was very painful to observe. Luna Blaise actually nailed Olive’s damage emotions in that second, in addition to her hesitation to achieve out to assist Ben once more within the current. But it is her perception into Eden’s drawings that truly helps Ben resolve his Calling, regardless of him having yelled at her once more. I like how the writers dealt with this extremely messy and heavy second for each characters. It’s heartbreaking from Olive’s perspective, as a result of her father, whom she’d lastly reconnected with and gotten near once more, remains to be so withdrawn from her and so single-mindedly targeted on solely one in every of his youngsters, whereas neglecting her and Cal. And it is heartbreaking for Ben, who looks like nobody actually believes him and helps his seek for Eden. He’s in the identical place by which Olive was when Ben and Cal had been gone. She knew Cal was nonetheless alive, however nobody believed her both. Which is why the second when Olive realises what Ben is drawing is so significant. Not solely does it join the 2 of them once more, it additionally permits Olive to really feel near Eden, like she all the time feels with Cal. And it was all via a rhyme that has been handed right down to all three Stone youngsters by Grace, who in flip discovered it from her step-father. I really like when small issues from earlier seasons come again in greater methods in tales, and Manifest is exceptionally good at that.

When Jared comes to offer Ben the information that their new lead was a lifeless finish, for a second it looks like Ben could retreat into his isolation once more. But as a substitute, he motions for Olive to return upstairs with him and opens as much as her about how he is beginning to regain his religion within the Callings. It’s a fantastic and emotional scene that does nice justice to Ben and Olive’s relationship and their therapeutic after dropping Grace. Ben nonetheless has a protracted strategy to go, however he is taking the suitable steps now.

Desperate for a connection

While Ben spends this episode getting nearer to his household,
Angelina and Eden are hiding at Adrian’s new place. He’s prepared
to offer them shelter, but it surely’s clear he is not precisely on her aspect or prepared
to guard her had been she to be found. It places Adrian in an
fascinating grew place, as he appears to principally be doing this to offer Eden
a roof over her head. He even means that they need to reunite Eden
together with her household. He’s all the time been an interesting character who principally
operates within the gray, along with his actions usually being neither wholly good
or wholly unhealthy. As is the case now: he is hiding Angelina, however he is additionally
providing shelter to his fellow passengers.

Angelina,
in her determined seek for some type of connection, solely additional
doubles down on her darkish path. She refuses to surrender Eden and claims
they’re so linked that they are even beginning to share the identical
Callings. She exams her idea by telling Eden to attract the identical factor
she did. Of course, this fails. The Calling as a substitute connects Eden with
Ben. This infuriates Angelina, to the purpose the place she smashes Eden’s plate in opposition to the wall. She feels so deserted by all of the folks she liked that this type of rejection from Eden appears to be an excessive amount of to bear. If even a younger youngster whom she has finished her finest to like and take care of, in her personal tousled means, will not join together with her, who will? 

Adrian, at a lack of what to do with Angelina, goes to go to Eagan in jail. Eagan shortly figures out that Adrian is hiding “manic pixie homicide lady,” and he would not be Eagan if he did not discover a means to make use of that info to his benefit. He convinces Adrian to let Angelina keep, however later calls Ben to let him know that he has info on Eden’s location. As all the time, Eagan is all the time ten steps forward of everybody and is aware of precisely use each piece of data he positive aspects for his personal profit. Poor Adrian, although. It’s a tragic day when you possibly can’t even belief your fellow co-conspirators anymore.

Angelina, Adrian, and Eagan have been linked for some time of their gray morality and selfishness, and at instances appear to be the three brokers of the apocalypse that Adrian fears a lot. But regardless of that connection, they’re clearly not on the identical web page of their objectives. This episode has all three working in opposition to one another, principally solely caring about their very own wellbeing. It’s Adrian who comes out of this episode trying finest, out of the three of them, as he at the least appears to care in regards to the well-being of the passengers he is serving to and Eden. It’s fairly an interesting dynamic that the present has managed to create between these three, and I’m all the time a fan of episodes that delve deeper into it.

Co-pilot

A Calling leads Mick to Amuta, who was Daly’s co-pilot on Flight 828. The final time we noticed him was in a flashback in 1×11, so it is good to meet up with him and see what his life has been like since Flight 828 landed. He’s nonetheless a pilot, however he solely flies non-public jets, as the one job he might discover was one the place his boss might parade him as his very personal 828 pilot. I actually like how the writers use all these alternative ways to indicate how Othered the 828 passengers have turn out to be of their world, just because they’re completely different in a means the world cannot fairly put their fingers on. It’s a really fascinating and laborious hitting commentary on our personal world.

The second treasure hunt on this
episode options Saanvi and Cal, who’re
attempting to determine how the Callings ended up being recorded on the
black field. Mick manages to trick Amuta into having to return and hearken to the recording. Later, she and Amuta discuss in regards to the guilt they really feel about Evie and Daly. The means Manifest has handled Mick’s guilt has all the time been one in every of my favorite lengthy working arcs on the present, and I really like that they made room on this episode for her to narrate to Amuta in that means. It’s a robust strategy to join these two passengers, who hadn’t actually spoken earlier than. Amuta tells Mick that he nonetheless misses Daly, regardless of what he has finished, and that Mick cannot think about what it is prefer to fly with out your pilot. This clearly hits house for her, as that is what she’s been doing since Ben misplaced Grace and Eden. 

This episode solves one other thriller that I, at the least, have been questioning about, which was the timeline of when Cal noticed the Glow and when Daly and Amuta flew into it. As it seems, that gentle may very well be seen out of Cal’s window some time earlier than the turbulence hit. Which implies that it adopted and selected them. When Amuta reveals that he and Daly known as the Glow the “lengthy, delirious, burning blue,” Cal out of the blue remembers being within the Glow. And he is not alone: Daly and Fiona are there too! As somebody who’s actually appreciated Fiona since we met her in season 1, it was so rewarding to lastly see her once more. And what an effective way to deliver Jack Messina again too!

Daly needs Cal to remain within the Glow, whereas Fiona agrees that Cal ought to return. It feels very becoming with their characterization: Daly longed for that peace, given how turbulent his life had turn out to be, and may’t perceive why Cal would give that up. Fiona, alternatively, has all the time been capable of see the larger image extra clearly, so she understands that Cal nonetheless has extra to do outdoors of the Glow. Cal leaves, however not earlier than Daly tries to cease him. Cal, Saanvi, and Mick speculate on whether or not that is why Daly reappeared on Flight 828 and took the airplane from Eureka, however in the meanwhile they haven’t any concrete solutions. Still, the affirmation that the passengers had been chosen by the divine consciousness already looks like a large enough breakthrough.

Back at her home, Michaela checks in on Ben. He confides in her in regards to the terrible Calling he had, which confirmed ash and destruction. It’s harking back to the Calling Ben, Mick, Saanvi, and Adrian had earlier than the nightclub fireplace in season 2, so it might probably’t result in something good. But what is nice is how Ben lets Mick in after so lengthy. It offers Mick the area to inform Ben that she wants him again as her co-pilot as soon as he is discovered Eden. It’s a fantastic second between these two siblings, who’ve been via a lot collectively, and I’m glad the writers allowed area for them each to speak about how they really feel and to precise that to one another in a wholesome means. That’s all the time been one of many largest strengths of this present, and I can not applaud the writers sufficient for it. 

Just like the primary two episodes of season 4, High Flight continues the story of the passengers in an emotional and thrilling means. It offers us a couple of solutions to the primary thriller whereas additionally making room for the extra emotional and grounded moments with these characters, and it develops a number of dynamics in fascinating methods. As a very long time fan of this present, I could not be happier with the course the story is heading in!

Additional factors:

– I actually appreciated the scene by which Drea opens as much as Jared about her household’s historical past. It’s gave us some perception into each of their ethical compasses and Drea’s causes for working on the Registry, but it surely additionally helped to offer their relationship with one another some depth. And it does a great job of reminding the viewers that this Othering of the 828 passengers is one thing that has occurred to many various teams in our historical past, and sadly retains taking place again and again. 

– Was anybody going to inform me that peacocks emit low-frequency sounds, or was I simply supposed to seek out out about that on the finish of a Manifest episode?

About the Author – Anouk S

Anouk is a video editor who loves watching tv exhibits. When she’s not writing her ideas down in phrases, she spends her time analysing her favorite exhibits by making fanvids. She loves all types of genres, however fantasy and sci-fi have a particular place in her coronary heart.