After a cancellation and countless campaigns, missing plane drama Manifest is coming back for a Season 4 later this year on Netflix. The series follows the passengers of Flight 828 who went missing for 5 ½ years and were presumed to be dead. After they came back, none of them had aged a day but they all inherited an ability to hear Callings to be able to save people and each other.

So, just what will the fourth season of Manifest consist of? From a new platform to cast replacements, there are plenty of things to know about the series before it comes back following the cliffhanger of a third season finale. Here is what to expect from Season 4 of Manifest.

Season 4 Of Manifest Will Be On Netflix

Despite initially passing on Manifest, Netflix did end up picking up the series for a fourth and final season, announcing it on none other than 828 Day on August 28. Netflix has saved series from cancellations before, including Designated Survivor and Lucifer, both in 2018. The latter saw major success on the streamer, where it saw three additional seasons. Manifest has already seen success on Netflix after the first three seasons were added, and talks started back up later in summer 2021 until they ultimately came to the decision that made everyone happy

There Will Be 20 Episodes

The upcoming fourth season will be a “super-sized” one and include 20 episodes, THR reported. This is more than what most Netflix shows have for a single season but considering that Manifest was originally planned to have six seasons, it’s not surprising. It’s unknown how the episodes will be split up, but it seems likely it’ll just be 10 episodes for the first half and 10 episodes for the second half. It’s important to note that this is also the biggest season of the series, as Season 1 had 16 episodes while Seasons 2 and 3 only had 13.
Season 4 Happened After Netflix Popularity

Following NBC’s surprise decision to cancel Manifest, fans made it their mission to use campaigns to try to give the show a second life. Though, the show got saved largely because of how popular it became on Netflix. After the first two seasons were made available, the series skyrocketed to the top of the chart, nearly breaking a major record at one point. Netflix didn’t pick up the series at first but after seeing how popular it was doing, fans were hopeful that the streamer would reverse the decision. Following a long and agonizing summer, news broke in late August that Manifest was indeed saved.

Manifest Creator Jeff Rake Is Confident He’ll Be Able To Finish The Story With The Last 20 Episodes

Manifest originally had a six-season plan, which came to an abrupt hold when NBC canceled the series. Now that Netflix picked it up for a 20-episode final season, could this mean that not everything will be included? Fear not, because even while Manifest was in limbo, creator Jeff Rake was coming up with multiple ways that the show can have a proper finale that includes telling the story the way it’s supposed to be told. And that won’t change with only 20 episodes left, as he told EW: When I’ve talked in the past about having a roadmap all the way to the end of series, that didn’t mean that I had a roadmap for literally every single episode. I have a roadmap with a series of twists and turns and flags in the sand that we would ultimately hit in order to tell the core stories within our mythology and within our relationship drama. So it will not be a particularly difficult exercise to overlay that same exact roadmap onto 20 episodes. It will be quite organic.