![]() ![]() Photo: George Chinsee for StyleCaster OK, we’ll move on. Especially over 20 episodes, there are so many things that happen. I know that’s super anticlimactic, I’m so sorry. OK, every character has such a complex storyline I actually forget the answer to that one. So, he would have dated a mother and a daughter at that point. ![]() But then again, Jared falls in love with the Major’s daughter so that would get a little weird. Oh, it’s definitely wrong, which I’m kind of sad about because I think it would have been a really good storyline. ![]() One huge one is that the Major is Michaela’s older self visiting from the future. The one thing I’ll say is that in the last episode, episode 20, we started shooting it before we even had the script, so there were a couple of scenes that we did where we were like, “We have no idea what’s going on.” Jeff was obviously very protective of how things ended. Photo: George Chinsee for StyleCaster When you got the scripts for the final season, was there secrecy about how Michaela’s, and everyone’s, story would end? She’s got a messy road ahead, but she handles it. But then you find her navigating new friendships and new relationships in that space and the rest of the journey for her is figuring out how to let go of him and move on. And now Michaela’s lost Zeke, so Ben’s the one taking care of her a little bit more and she’s really struggling. She almost swaps spots with Ben because he’s lost Grace. She’s dealing with his death in an interesting way. Yup, this time it’s for real and he’s gone, but he’s not gone from the show. “Fan outcry helped us get that last season,” says Roxburgh gratefully. This got the streamer’s attention and maybe, they could swoop in and “help finish the story.” In November of that same year, production began on what would be Manifest‘s fourth and final season. Thanks to a global rollout spanning more than 16 regions, Manifest became the fifth most popular show on Netflix. It had licensed the show in June 2021 so quietly that no one, not even Rake, knew. Sometime during the “blur” of the pandemic, the Vancouver native turned on Netflix and saw Manifest’s all three seasons-42 episodes-just sitting there. Having mourned their time together had been cut short, the show’s talent was starting to move on with their lives and onto other projects. Roxburgh made a few attempts to get the story finished, appealing to Rake to shop the show around to the likes of Hulu or HBO but “it wasn’t looking good,” she says. Fans were vocal and despondent showrunner Jeff Rake tweeted it was a “gut punch.” During peak COVID, season three wrapped and the cast and crew said their goodbyes. “I really thought that it was a big science experiment to see if they could do time travel.” Come June 2021, NBC chose not to renew the show for a fourth season. “I really thought it was the government who was responsible,” she recalls to StyleCaster. Melissa Roxburgh, who plays the lead Michaela Stone, had her own theories on the mysterious show when it debuted in 2018. Why Did Christine Quinn Leave Selling Sunset? Here’s If She Was Fired Photo: George Chinsee for StyleCaster ![]()
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