![]() ![]() RELATED: How Netflix Saved 'Manifest' for Its Fourth and Final Season ![]() Before the show returns for a jumbo fourth and final season, here’s the passenger list of characters from Manifest. ![]() The main focus of Manifest is the Stone family, but there are several other characters in their orbit who are intrinsic to the story. Several passengers return with a supernatural ability, which they describe as "Callings." These Callings are both a blessing and a curse. While the passengers haven’t aged a day, their loved ones have lived through five trying years believing them to be dead. ![]() Manifest is a missing plane drama unlike any other: Montego Air Flight 828 takes off one day and disappears for five years. But after its recent cancellation and subsequent save by Netflix, this supernatural mystery drama has established itself as a must-add on everyone’s television watchlist. The final moment of the finale, where we see Angelina opening up lava-filled fissures around her seems like Angelina’s unstable nature will see her be a villain to the end and despite her being an absolute menace, it makes for fantastic TV.Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for Seasons 1-3 of Manifest.įor many of us, Manifestflew under the radar for far too long. Her sole focus is now on being the world’s biggest nightmare and making everyone else suffer. Her parents also become serial killers to kill off the people who helped Angelina hide Eden. She uses the omega sapphire to manipulate Ben and Cal with fake callings trying to get them to give up.Īny morals she once had are gone because she knows what she wants and killing people in the process doesn’t phase her. So after Eden rejects her and decides to be with Ben, she convinces herself that she’s the archangel sent to spread vengeance on the world. Her sole focus is on manipulating Eden’s powers and keeping her guardian angel safe. Despite being on the run for two years and people knowing she kidnapped Eden and killed Grace, she still convinces people to help her hide out. We bear witness to the fact Angelina is genuinely clever and not just psychotic. Season four shows us Angelina, no longer cares about being accepted, she fully believes in what she’s doing, and that’s all that matters. Why the other Manifest villains cannot compete with Angelina Her vision of Eden as her guardian angel leads to the death of Grace, where season four picks up. So, when her turning into Olive (Luna Blaise) – dying her hair, dressing like Olive and then acting like Eden’s big sister – doesn’t cause her to fit in and instead causes Grace and Olive to reject her, this only causes Angelina to take a further step down her path of insanity and find a new fixation in the form of baby Eden. But beyond that, Angelina spent her time assessing the Stones because to her, they illustrated a perfect family and people who fit in. Her innocent persona caused Ben (Josh Dallas) and Grace’s kindness to blind them in, noticing that Angelina was someone desperate to fit in no matter the cost. It leaves her with the one thing she has left and what her parents taught her, God’s word and scripture.Īngelina’s initial close connection to the Stones thus becomes something we didn’t see as a threat but should have. Her relationship with meth head Pete Baylor (Devin Harjes) seemed to mark a repair going on in Angelina’s life, but when he dies, that rips back open, and we see her reach a complete breaking point. But as we see Cal and the rest of the Stone’s kindness visibly affect her, Angelina’s attempt to find her purpose in life only leads her further down the road of insanity. Angelina’s connection to the StonesĪngelina’s trauma and upbringing understandably make it hard for her to connect with people as she’s never felt the unconditional love she should have received from her parents. Arguably more so than the mystery of the plane and the death date. Her inability to be rationalized with makes her the biggest threat in the show yet. However, while we can acknowledge her trauma made her unstable and led her down a misguided path with God, how this led to her planning to take down the whole world with the last remaining shard of the omega sapphire is a mesmerizing exploration. Thus, our weakened defenses blind us to any wrongdoing she initially does as we write it off as a product of her trauma. Imprisoning your child because you deem her callings to communication with the devil is a big no, no, and it causes us, like the Stones, to feel nothing but sympathy for her. When we first meet Angelina in season three, we bear witness to the trauma inflicted on her by her religious extremist parents. Angelina’s whole backstory sets her up to be the perfect villain. ![]()
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