Manifest is still struggling to figure out the right balance between character and story

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"It’s the sort of balance that, really, every TV show has to find — take How I Met Your Mother’s years-long struggle to postpone revealing who the titular Mom was, or as a positive example the deft way in which every aspect of life in Baltimore was blended together on The Wire," says Liz Shannon Miller. "But shows like Manifest highlight that particular struggle, because telling relatable human stories with fantastical elements is so tricky that one moment of misalignment reveals all the flaws."