re: What’s the general consensus on manifest?

For network tv fare it wasn't bad. The first season did a good job of having the lives of the passengers' families and friends going forward after their disappearance and how their sudden return impacted things.

The callings were always handled well enough by the writers to not make it blatantly obvious what they meant until you were deep into the episode. Binging the series showed the callings getting progressively stronger and I'm not sure that showed well in viewing it weekly as new episodes dropped (I felt similar with Lucifer, the character growths seemed far better and clearer when binging).

I wouldn't mind seeing it go to Netflix as it seems to have a definite ending point and the writers can write toward it and finish it out (because at the very least it's a fun idea).