no name given I had to quit watching after one episode. I know it's a TV show and all but there is no reason to completely rewrite history and avoid common sense. The writing is so historically off based and bad, it's a train wreck. e.g. there were no ibm computers at los alamos. There were sequencing and sorting machines but no 'computers', geez. No one ever even used the term 'computers' in '44. They might as well have included cell phones and laser beams. The actual history of the bomb is way more interesting than this dribble, not just from a technical or historical view. The actual people and conflicts they went thru puts this story to shame. This is an insult to the country, the period and people who worked on the manhattan project. Bad writer, bad writer, shame on you.update: Out of curiosity and nothing better to do, I watched the rest of the series. Oh thank goodness this show has been cancelled. I never wanted a show to fail more. I'm sure someday I'll be sitting in a bar arguing with some uneducated ignoramus over the history of the bomb because the idiot watched this show. The show production was pretty good; I only have a few nit picky issues, and the acting and cast are top notch but the writing is gd awful. It's not just mediocre plots and dialogue. It's as if some junior high kid read a book about the bomb and then regurgitated it back into this mess. I'm no history nerd but I could write a book about the history goofs and rewrites. I'm surprised nobody has tackled the errors in the goof section but then the task is pretty overwhelming. I don't know what other rewrites of history these idiots are taking on next. I'd suggest getting the material reviewed by someone with some common sense and at least high school education but I don't think it would make any difference. There's a lot of uneducated nits around the world that prefer made up history rather than facts. Unfortunately, it these same people who like to argue over what they don't know.

leonvk-97-363892 'Manhattan' is the sort of show, actually scratch that, there is no show truly like Manhattan out there. This is a show that is attempting to say something deeply profound about the most important, most dangerous bit of technology that mankind has ever produced and (given incremental improvements over the last 70 odd years) will likely not be surpassed for centuries. And that profound message is this, any argument of the necessity of the creation of the A-bomb, was just that, merely an argument. The bomb was created by scientists who felt they were doing their part to end the war, doing their part to save lives, but it was funded by a military and government that believed itself to be "the most noble civilization in human history", a government that sought to bring peace, justice and democracy to the world through fear. Make no mistake, the network may have 'America' in its label, but this is no patriotic propaganda piece. The shows starts off bombarding the audience with the depth of the secrecy surrounding the Manhattan project, then demonstrates (albeit in a largely fictional manner) the cost of that secrecy in both human sanity and actual lives. Each scene, each character is as complex as the 'gadget' they are all part of constructing, this show is a total mess, but in a good way.Its a TV show with completely unpredictable story lines, with characters who jump back and forth between ideals, motivations and needs. It beautifully catalogs what it means to be human, to live in a complex world packed full of both sympathy and ruthlessness. Where conflicting emotional and rational forces comes at odds with each other, sometimes for better, sometimes for the worst.This is slow painful television, like 'Breaking Bad', 'The Wire' or the 'Sopranos', but where as those shows avoided the actual (or official) politics of the world around them, Manhattan thrives off its context. And that is not to say there are much scenes depicting the war itself, but rather the dirty, gritty, morally questionable side to keeping a nation and its individual citizens motivated in a time of all out war (there is heaps of spy-craft to be encountered here).A patient watcher of this show will learn a lot, not about the history or science that this show is steeped in (although I imagine those interested in the history of Physics will relish much offered here), but rather that that our greatest enemies aren't the monsters abroad, but those we create in our own backyards, in our own minds, in our own hearts to cope with the fear, the guilt, the crumbling pride. I hope that the lessons this show has to offer will never need be used in your life, but if you are to find yourself in a situation where manipulation, threat of force and the illusion of duty and righteousness are used as a regular means to get people to dismiss the moral objection to killing, this show may just help you avoid the same mistakes the flawed and believable characters of this show so readily make. One last point, if the visuals and soundtrack of the opening sequence doesn't work for you (as it pretty much encapsulates how the show feels), or if the endpoint of the series being a very well known historical event is some sort of plot spoiler, then perhaps you should rightly move on. Im not saying there aren't any jaw dropping surprises, the first few episodes of season 2 are wondrously packed with them, its only that's not the point of this majestic drama.

Raghav Rana Manhattan is perhaps one of the most underrated shows currently on television. The fact that it comes from WGN creates a stigma towards that many viewers are unable to surpass. But trust me once you dwell into the first couple of episodes, you will not regret it. The writers on this show have done an incredible job in incorporating historical events into a show that is mostly based around fictional characters (although Oppenheimer makes several appearances, and Neils Bohr and Einstein also make brief appearances) and events. This creates a encapsulating drama that accompanies the main storyline about the creation of the atomic bomb. If you are looking for a historically accurate show more about the physics and mathematics behind the atomic bomb this is definitely not the show for you. At its heart it is a fully fledged drama. In particular I would like to commend the writers on drawing out the psychological trauma and difficulties placed on the scientists and individuals responsible for creating the bomb. This creates a more emotional connection to the characters and thus creates a synthetic sympathetic connection to these fictitious characters. Although generic at some stages the story lines are generally full of surprises which you would not expect and forces you to view the next episode, as any good televisions show should. Manhattan is one of those shows that are better watched several episodes in a row as the episodes tend to jump between the main character in focus.Overall this is a criminally underrated show by the television community and should be given more credit for what has become a gripping show.

Diane Ruth Pure soap opera set in an isolated desert compound and the project to produce an atomic bomb during WWII. More than any television show or motion picture in recent memory, this plays fast and loose with the facts as if they don't matter at all. Fictional characters abound and those characters are drowning in personal problems and outrageous self- examination. Oh, the tortured souls and socially inept geeks that populate this forsaken outpost. Not one of them is in any way interesting, engaging, or likable. Miserable people and their miserable families in a miserable place. Badly directed with some sort of stab at artistry and stiff acting so terrible that it's no wonder few of these actors are even remotely familiar. This is television at its most pretentious, simple- minded, empty-headed, and comatose. Dramas like this make Dynasty look as if Edward Albee, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller were on the writing staff.