“It wasn’t the #SaveManifest hashtag or the petition or the letters or media coverage. It wasn’t even the effort to buy a protest billboard outside Netflix headquarters. What scored Manifest a critical fourth and final season were those top-secret numbers created by viewers bingeing the show’s first two seasons.”
“Fan enthusiasm is always great to see, but it really isn’t the emails or tweets — it was all about the viewing,” Bajaria says. “To save a show in this way, it has to have that fan viewing. I appreciate their passion and being connected to the characters, but the viewing is the thing that saved the show.”