In 'Manhattan', a group of nuclear scientists, who are competing to build the first atomic bomb, so they convey with their families to the desert of Los Alamos, New Mexico, to work in this secret project. New historical and dramatic events come up with the second season of Manhattan, which follows Charlie, who finds himself obliged to work as a leader in the struggle to build this A-bomb.
This is the kind of evolution that all-time great series take, and it wouldn't surprise me one bit to see Manhattan get to the status that it deserves.
It captures the enormous creative possibilities that come from putting a few hundred great brains together on one army base in the middle of the New Mexico desert, but also the problems that arise.
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 with a knack for creating theatrical intimacy.
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 the confidence of a series that knows it can be great.
Messages contrived to make ideological points have a way of exacting a toll from drama-usually a flattening predictability-and this series is no exception.
