Manhattan

Manhattan

7.2/ 10

48 min

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48 min

2014 - 2015

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Drama

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WGN

Manhattan is a American drama series from WGN America. The serie premiered in 2014.

Set during the clandestine mission to build the world’s first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, NM, Manhattan follows the brilliant but flawed scientists and their families. It centers on Frank Winter, a brilliant and self-destructive physics professor tapped to help lead the Manhattan Project, a mission that will jeopardize his family and his sanity.

Summer schedule June, July, August 2014

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Popular comments (8)

gumstarr

30 September 2014

While Hitler and Hirohito were making a huge mess on this side of the ocean in the early 1940s, a number of bright minds gathered on a remote dusty plain in New Mexico to work on a solution. If you find building an atomic bomb a solution that is, because that's what they were doing there. Project Manhattan was to ensure that the Allies - rather than that crook on Adolf & Co's payroll - had a weapon so terrifying that just threatening to deploy it would have an effect. Well, we all know how well that turned out. Bunch of morons. If you're going to tinker with a weapon of mass destruction in the middle of nowhere, then of course you want to come home in the evening to a crib with a warm mash on the table. The wives of the science scientists were therefore also allowed to come along, but they then only raved about all those trained soldiers who had to guard the camp against uninvited guests. You can already feel it coming, there is a nice story in it. That story is Manhattan. I don't know what it is with those forties and fifties TV series. Mad Men, Masters Of Sex, Magic City and now Manhattan, I eat it like a tube of paprika Pringles. In one go. Without breathing. Ok, I do take a breath in between, but you know what I mean. Maybe it's because pregnant women in every scene are barking away half a pack of Lucky Strike like it's the most natural thing on earth. Or those huge, polished American sleds that only have enough space in their trunk to drive the entire Urk fishery from the harbor to the fish auction (this was really the most ad-round example I could think of). Anyway.. That whole vibe is just nice. And if you think so, then Manhattan is another very good one.

CC11

21 September 2015

This was really an unexpected hit for me. And although it may be a bit slow for many at first, if you decide to keep watching it will be incredibly fascinating. And not only the improbable story (although actually happened) but also the performances, the atmosphere and you name it, it all approaches perfection. The mutual battle between the bright minds who work on 2 different projects, the general paranoia that prevails at army command and the ministry they work for, it is all perfectly portrayed and it really makes you feel like life on the army base where they were stationed was anything but fun, and certainly not if you also had a family that stayed there with you. Because it goes without saying that complete secrecy was a prerequisite, so that even the wives sitting on the base had no idea what their husbands were doing day and night. It is only logical that this also gave rise to all kinds of domestic problems. Add to that the fact that both the Allies and the Germans had spies which made the secret service, which oversaw the base and its inhabitants, even more nervous and you get an idea of the immense pressure under which everyone had to live on the same basis. . Highly recommended in every sense of the word.

EdwinHaas

19 November 2014

Is it possible to play a believable genius scholar who is also obsessively maniacal and at times sociable and friendly? Yes, that's possible. Look at Frank Winter, played by John Benjamin Hickey, in Manhattan. And it's not just him, the entire cast is amazing. Not least our own Katja Herbers as Dr. Helen Prince. Manhattan is the code name for a secret project to develop the first atomic bomb in 1943. This is what this series is all about. In 1943 a project is set up to develop a bomb that is to be the final hit. It will mean the end of WW2. To this end, a camp is set up in a desert near Mexico, where the best minds of the time are brought together. The finances were unlimited and so were the facilities, circumstances, accommodations, laboratories, personnel, etc. The assignment: make an atomic bomb. The theory was already there, but as mentioned at the beginning of the series, you can't throw a theory out of a bomber. And, spoiler alert, the outcome is already known. Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The topic above is really something for a 50 minute documentary on National Geographic. In addition, this series on the site has a score of 6.3 which, at the time of writing, is slowly creeping up to 6.7. That's not all. So what do you have to watch for 9 hours and 19 minutes? A good film/series transcends the story. There is layering. That is certainly the case in this series. Manhattan is primarily a drama series. The gentlemen with their wives and then among themselves. I read in the reviews at IMDb call it "Manhattan Housewifes". Nice idea, but that certainly doesn't cover the load. It is more the personal feuds between the highly qualified intelligentsia, the strange environment and circumstances. It is all very nicely displayed. The camp itself is said to have been recreated in a terrifyingly natural way. In addition, it is again a pleasure to enjoy the design in clothing and surroundings, as in all series that take place in those times. For that reason alone, but there is more, much more. . The drama does not consist of who has what with whom and who does it with whom? According to the makers, the drama is mainly, or does the drama arise from, secrecy and secrets and what secrets do to a relationship. Everything was secret. And then in a cascading form. There are a few people at the top who know everything. Then the scholars who only know their part. And below that nobody knows anything. Women (that's the wives of course, not Dr. Katja) staff and security don't even know what's happening let alone what the target is. In 1943 the war was in full swing. How it will develop and how long it will last is unknown. Germany in the 1920s and 1930s was the absolute leader in physics and mathematics. Whoever can make the first atomic bomb wins the war. One such bomb on Berlin and the war in Europe is over. That was actually the aim. Conversely, New York and Washington are directly on the west coast. Easily accessible to the Germans. These are considerations that we, familiar with the result, find strange. However, Germany capitulated on May 8, 1945. The bomb was just not ready yet. But Japan was still a rewarding target. Three months later, August 6, the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Three days later the second bomb fell. This was actually intended for Kokura but there was too much cloud. Then fly on to Nagasaki. That's how things go. So yes, a drama series. But one with an invisible sword. It is fascinating what is mainly unknown. But also how scientifically diligent searches are made to unveil the unknown. The outcome haunts to this day. The fact that we are not going to bomb in a remote province of Russia but in regions of Syria and Iraq can be traced back to this. It is thanks to the efforts made by the scientists in this series. Rotterdam, The Hague and Amsterdam were not built in 3 minutes, but they can be destroyed in this time. Russia has a trump card. IS has no trump card. C'est Approx. And to end with a generally accepted inference. The atomic bomb did not bring peace, but it did end the war. And to this day, everything can be ended with the now improved version. So watch.

EdwinHaas

21 September 2015

Manhattan IS also an unexpected gem. A series that receives belated appreciation. And fans who can write for a long time.