Manhunt
Manhunt Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 7.4 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 8.0 |
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About
"A history lesson turned into a manhunt thriller"
Manhunt dramatizes the twelve days after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, following Secretary of War Edwin Stanton as he leads the desperate chase to capture John Wilkes Booth. It's a tense, handsomely mounted historical thriller that treats a familiar event like a ticking-clock procedural, mixing manhunt suspense with courtroom-style political maneuvering. The pace is deliberate rather than breakneck, leaning on period detail and performance over action. Tobias Menzies anchors it with a controlled, grief-tinged intensity that gives the show its emotional weight, even when the plotting occasionally feels stretched.
Tobias Menzies' quietly devastating performance as a grieving, relentless Secretary of War.
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All Seasons
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | Pilot | 7.5 | 605 | 54 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Post-mortem | 7.6 | 505 | 56 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | Let the Sheep Flee | 7.5 | 423 | 51 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | The Secret Line | 7.4 | 401 | 50 min | |
| ▶ | 5 | A Man of Destiny | 7.7 | 383 | 41 min | |
| ▶ | 6 | Useless | 7.8 | 377 | 52 min | |
| ▶ | 7 | The Final Act | 8.0 | 346 | 54 min |