EPISODE
SEASON
Manhattan - Season 2
The main event in this series focuses on a team of nuclear scientists, who work on the top-secret Manhattan project, as they do their best, in order to live in peace and reveals the secrets in the world. A new season begins with Charlie trying to form the first nuclear bomb in the world.
30 December 1983, Santa Monica, California, USA
10 April 1975, New York, USA
11 May 1984, Bellevue, Washington, USA
27 May 1955, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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 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 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 08, 2015
It's as well acted and intriguingly plotted as any of TV's period dramas.
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.
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 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 13, 2015
Manhattan is an overwrought, overripe piece of pulp fiction stuffed with overboiled intrigue.
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.