EPISODE
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Manhattan - Season 1
Manhattan is a drama about the clandestine race to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, N.M. Flawed scientists and their families attempt to co-exist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.
26 July 1968, Camden Town, London, England, UK
17 July 1976, Chicago, Illinois, USA
17 March 1958, Humboldt, Iowa, USA
July 29, 2014
Manhattan is the result of an unlikely attempt to cross-pollinate Lost with Mad Men, only the audience knows the answer to almost every mystery on the show is "the atomic bomb."
November 18, 2015
Paranoia is kept at a fever pitch. One of the elements that makes Manhattan work so well as long-form narrative is that the milieu dictates a palimpsest of networks of secrecy.
July 28, 2014
The cast is incredibly talented and the story tightly written.
July 29, 2014
Manhattan is awfully overwrought, stocked with personalities as volatile as the radioactive isotopes they're trying to tame. Its melodramatic tone makes it resemble Lifetime's Army Wives more than it does A Beautiful Mind.
August 04, 2014
Manhattan is a well-conceived period drama that does a good job conveying the atmosphere of tension and secrecy that surrounded The Manhattan Project during the later years of WWII.
July 23, 2014
Manhattan should be more gripping and more entertaining.
July 28, 2014
Carrying the weight of the world can be heavy lifting. Manhattan so far shows every sign of being able to shoulder the load.
July 28, 2014
Manhattan... is as exciting as the history that inspired it
July 31, 2014
In this oversaturated summer of quality drama, "Manhattan" faces tough odds. But it's hard not to root for an underdog.
July 21, 2014
A beautifully executed 1940s period drama about the men and women involved in the top-secret Manhattan Project is at once transporting and provocative.
