History Series / Manifest

** {{Discussed. The characters quickly conclude that what is happening to them is too contrived to be just coincidence.

* AnachronisticClue: Averted. The FBI spends days going over every item found on Flight 828 but find nothing that was made after April 7, 2013.

** Ben and Grace have been praying for a miracle that would save Cal's life. They get their miracle but at a tremendous cost to their family.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Discussed. The characters quickly conclude that what is happening to them is too contrived to be just coincidence.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: In her narration, Michaela Beth mentions she still has nightmares from a car accident.

* DomesticAbuse: The person Grace is seeing maybe be abusing her, if the scar on her shoulder is any indication.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Michela tells her best friend, Lourdes, that she understands she is now married to Michael's former boyfriend. Michela states that she had been about to break up with Jared and Lourdes "is no fraud replacement." In reality, when the plane landed, Michaela had been about to accept Jared's proposal but realizes she has to accept he and Lourdes have moved on.
* KickTheDog: Michela is already dealing with losing five years of her life and her mother. Then, when she comes back to work on the police force, she finds that the man who, from her perspective, was her boyfriend just a week ago is now married. ''Then'' she finds out it's to her best friend.

** Ben tries to help Radd when Radd's son is arrested for robbery but there is not much he can do. He goes to retrieve some of Cal's stuff from a storage locker owned by his wife's new boyfriend and it turns out the real robber has a storage locker just a few feet away and is cataloguing the loot just as Ben walks by.

* ScienceMarchesOn: In-Universe example. In 2013 there was no treatment for Cal's cancer and he was given six months to live. A potential treatment is just a theory researchers are thinking about. Five years later, the theory has been successfully developed into a treatment and Cal has a good chance of surviving his cancer.

* SentientCosmicForce: In her narration at the end of the first episode, Michaela believes ''something'' chose her and rest of the passengers of Flight 828, it gave them a supernatural ability, summoned them back to JFK to watch the plane suddenly explode, and doesn't want anyone else to know about the circumstances of the passengers' disappearance. It sent them five and a half years into the future for some other reason besides giving them a second chance in life.

** Text messages suggest that Grace has started seeing someone but she and Olive are keeping it from Ben for now.

** After being presumed dead for five years Michaela is homeless and most of her possessions are gone. Her family could not keep paying rent on her apartment forever and had to donate or sell off most of her items beyond a few keepsakes. However, she is still apparently employed by the NYPD because noone bothered processing the paperwork. But she is told she has to re-certify herself on everything from physical to gun training to a psych evaluation.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Michaela Beth took flight 828 so she could get away from her mother nagging her about making a decision about marriage. When she lands she finds out that her mother is dead and her boyfriend has married someone else.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Discussed. The characters quickly conclude that what is happening to them is too contrived to be just coincidence.

** After being presumed dead for five years Michaela is homeless and most of her possessions are gone. Her family could not keep paying rent on her apartment forever and had to donate or sell off most of her items beyond a few keepsakes. However, she is still apparently employed by the NYPD because noone bothered processing the paperwork. But she is told she has to recertify herself on everything from physical to gun training to a psych evavulation.
** In 2013 Radd was a legal immigrant pursuing a career as a concert pianist. When he returns in 2018, all his paperwork has expired so his legal status is uncertain and he has to support himself as a street musician.

* WhamShot: The pilot ends with the plane's passengers all compelled to gather together at the airport...to watch as the plane suddenly explodes.
** A literal example as the second episode ends with one passenger who had been talking of a possible government conspiracy watching footage of herself on the news...just before she's shot in the head.

** Used as a defense by Grace for not telling Ben he's been seeing someone else as he's so happy being back.

** After being presumed dead for five years Michaela is homeless and most of her possessions are gone. Her family could not keep paying rent on her apartment forever and had to donate or sell off most of her items beyond a few keepsakes. However, she is still apparently employed by the NYPD because noone bothered processing the paperwork.

* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Saanvi was working on a revolutionary new leukemia treatment, which five years later has been implemented and just so happens to perfectly fit fellow 828 passenger Cal. This understandably convinces her there was some deliberate purpose to the whole thing.

* SentientCosmicForce: In her narration at the end of the first episode, Michaela believes ''something'' chose her and rest of the passengers of Flight 828, it gave them a supernatural ability, summoned them back to JFK as the airplane explodes, and doesn't want anyone else to know about the circumstances of the passengers' disappearance. It sent them five and a half years into the future for some other reason besides giving them a second chance in life.

''Manifest'' is an upcoming series scheduled to air on September 24th, 2018 on Creator/{{NBC}}. It depicts a flight that vanished and was presumed crashed, only to reappear and land safely five and half years later. The authorities are faced with a seemingly unsolvable mystery, and the passengers and crew must now deal with the lives they unwittingly left behind.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Michaela Beth took flight 828 so she could get away from her mother nagging her about making a decision about marriage. When she lands she finds out that he mother is dead and her boyfriend has married someone else.

* SentientCosmicForce: In her narration at the end of the first episode, Michaela believes ''something'' chose her and rest of the passengers of Flight 828, it gave them a supernatural ability, summoned them back to JFK as the airplane explodes, and doesn't want anyone else to know about the circumstances of the passengers' disappearance. It send them five and a half years later for a reason besides getting a second chance in life.

* RealityEnsues: When the plane reappears near JFK, the ATC is initially suspicious, and diverts them to Stewart International Airport instead. The authorities don't let any of the passengers go home; everyone is kept in a nearby hangar and interviewed separately.

->''"The problem, ladies and gentlemen, is your plane departed Montego Bay, Jamaica on April 7, 2013. Today is November 4, 2018."''

* LittlestCancerPatient: Cal is suffering from leukemia, before and after the time jump.

* TimeTravel: It somehow took Montego Air 828 to fly from Jamaica to New York in five and a half years.

* ItBeganWithATwistOfFate: This all started when the family's scheduled flight was overbooked, and some of them them decided to use the airline's offer and go home via Flight 828. It was supposed to be a few hours' delay, but it turned out to be much longer.