EPISODE
SEASON
Manhattan - Season 2
In 'Manhattan', a group of nuclear scientists, who are competing to build the first atomic bomb, so they convey with their families to the desert of Los Alamos, New Mexico, to work in this secret project. New historical and dramatic events come up with the second season of Manhattan, which follows Charlie, who finds himself obliged to work as a leader in the struggle to build this A-bomb.
29 October 1988, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
21 February 1953, Evanston, Illinois, USA
21 January 1977, Buckhannon, West Virginia, USA
3 August 1983, New York City, New York, USA
October 14, 2015
It does fine work in shadows and close quarters, the influence of the co-executive producer Thomas Schlamme (The West Wing), a veteran TV director with a knack for creating theatrical intimacy.
October 08, 2015
It's as well acted and intriguingly plotted as any of TV's period dramas.
October 14, 2015
Frank's the one with the vision and grit Charlie Isaacs is looking for, and he's the one whose absence pulls all the main characters together.
October 14, 2015
Manhattan isn't quite yet the great show I know it's capable of being as season two begins, but it's a show that moves with the confidence of a series that knows it can be great.
October 16, 2015
Messages contrived to make ideological points have a way of exacting a toll from drama-usually a flattening predictability-and this series is no exception.
October 13, 2015
Manhattan is an overwrought, overripe piece of pulp fiction stuffed with overboiled intrigue.
October 13, 2015
The series by Sam Shaw and Thomas Schlamme captures an American past with detail like no series since Mad Men and has an enviable cast.
October 13, 2015
It captures the enormous creative possibilities that come from putting a few hundred great brains together on one army base in the middle of the New Mexico desert, but also the problems that arise.
October 14, 2015
This is the kind of evolution that all-time great series take, and it wouldn't surprise me one bit to see Manhattan get to the status that it deserves.
October 12, 2015
Things heat up (literally) in the second hour with Justin Kirk in a guest role. The increasingly engrossing first four episodes move through D-Day.
