Manifest fans, this is what you’ve been waiting for from Netflix


One of my favorite entertainment storylines to watch unfold last year was the way the

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fandom around NBC’s canceled show Manifest pulled together to engineer one of the most grassroots un-cancellations in recent TV history.

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Part of what made it so fun to watch unfold is also that fans didn’t simply beg Netflix to bring back Manifest.

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They got organized. And they re-watched the absolute heck out of this drama

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which unceremoniously had the rug pulled out from under it by NBC,

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before creator Jeff Rake could, no pun intended, land the plane and finish telling the story he wanted to tell.

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Thanks to all the re-watching, Manifest die-hards kept the show at

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the top of Netflix’s TV charts for so long that the streamer really had no choice.

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Fans made Manifest — in its canceled state — the #1 show on Netflix for weeks.

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