New York Times October 8, 2015 It’s as well acted and intriguingly plotted as any of TV’s period dramas.
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...
It still features a superb and growing ensemble cast, a textured commitment to period detail, the smooth execution of some of TV’s best...
Manhattan certainly isn’t a bomb creatively speaking, nor is it yet the bomb, in latter-day vernacular. As admirable as some of its elem...
The show feels a little bit too nice, a little too PG – even an against-the-wall make-out session and a moment of woman-on-woman fli...
Manhattan is an overwrought, overripe piece of pulp fiction stuffed with overboiled intrigue.
Manhattan is the result of an unlikely attempt to cross-pollinate Lost with Mad Men, only the audience knows the answer to almost every mystery on...
The premiere does a fine job of creating a sense of time and place and introducing a complicated subject.
Manhattan aims to paint on a larger canvas and flaunt an assured sense of identity.
The opening scene is gorgeous, and his style blends perfectly in with the period. There are many scenes of characters walking and talking, but also...
Television has no shortage of male characters with large egos and conflicted hearts, but Hickey makes Winter’s flaws and his stoic endurance...
New York Times 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...
Los Angeles Times September 27, 2013 Limited. Interest.
Manhattan is awfully overwrought, stocked with personalities as volatile as the radioactive isotopes they’re trying to tame. Its melodramatic...
New York Times July 25, 2014 Manh(a)ttan provides a cleverly imagined portrait of the men and women who were at the epicenter of that peculiar sovereignty.
The performances are good, the writing is good, and the premise is good, but the complication of our own history is involving and fantastic.
online.wsj.com July 25, 2014 Manhattan has so far-it’s early-delivered no sermons about the alleged immorality of the bomb, which doesn’t mean there won’t be...
Denver Post 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...
The show has a rich period feel, with the proper clothes, appliances and a slightly bleached-out look that nicely captures the heat and d...
In this oversaturated summer of quality drama, "Manhattan" faces tough odds. But it’s hard not to root for an underdog.
Manhattan succeeds as the emotional, personal side of things starts taking hold.
Denver Post July 21, 2014 A beautifully executed 1940s period drama about the men and women involved in the top-secret Manhattan Project is at once transporting and pro...
It captures the enormous creative possibilities that come from putting a few hundred great brains together on one army base in the middle of t...
As a thriller, Manhattan mostly works.
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 to...
Messages contrived to make ideological points have a way of exacting a toll from drama-usually a flattening predictability-and this series is...
