The closing moments of Manhattan’s second season finale, “Jupiter,” are simply terrifying. A blinding white light obliterates the screen and then dissipates to reveal a crackling, howling mushroom cloud licking at the sky, the bone-chilling birth announcement of an evil genie forever burst from its bottle.
The devil, they say, is in the details. But in “Brooklyn,” Manhattan’s penultimate episode of the season, the monster in the minutia. So many secrets are revealed in this (literally) breakneck paced episode that viewers can be forgiven for needing one of the scientist’s blackboards to chart it all out.
From all indications, Manhattan has upped its game from very good to excellent. Whether or not this will translate into more viewers remains to be seen.