Manhattan will have an element of closure in Season 2, exec producer Sam Shaw has confirmed.
WGN has yet to confirm a third season of the nuclear period drama, but the show will resolve its key espionage mystery just in case the show is forced to end after Season 2, per Assignment X:
Yes, absolutely. That was the thing that was exciting to us. We spent the whole season last season writing about the human cost of a very destructive witch hunt for imaginary spies. There were a lot of people who were painted with the brush of espionage, and characters who were called traitors who weren’t, and there was a lot of human wreckage. By the end of the season, we finally reveal that one of our characters is a legitimate spy, and so this season, we tell his story, although I hope that we succeeded in telling the story in a way that will upend some of the conventions of spy stories. The truth is, there were real spies at Los Alamos, and their motives were really fascinating and complicated.
Paul says
If it comes back for a 3rd season I may or may not watch. Felt differently until I found out this was more fiction than fact. This could have been a very interesting show if they scoured unclassified documents and interviewed remaining survivors for anecdotal story lines.