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Manhattan - Season 2
Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science with the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Locked away in the world's most secretive city, the scientists and their families surrender their freedoms, compromise their marriages, and even sacrifice their sanity to end one war and usher in another, the Cold War waiting just over the atomic horizon, all while embedded spies and a climate of paranoia threaten to destroy the project from within.
1 August 1963, Boulder, Colorado, USA
14 April 1960, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
21 February 1953, Evanston, Illinois, USA
21 January 1977, Buckhannon, West Virginia, USA
22 July 1964, Amersham, England, UK
29 October 1985, Denver, Colorado, USA
4 April 1951, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
27 August 1953, Kumla, Örebro län, Sweden
28 June 1965, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
28 May 1969, Salem, Oregon, USA
8 September 1962, Ogden, Utah, 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 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 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
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 08, 2015
It's as well acted and intriguingly plotted as any of TV's period dramas.
October 13, 2015
Manhattan is an overwrought, overripe piece of pulp fiction stuffed with overboiled intrigue.
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 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
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 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.
