The historical wartime drama Manhattan returns for its second season on. Manhattan's first season followed the race between two teams--Frank Winter's (Hickey) ragtag group and Reed Akley's (David Harbour) better-funded, better-equipped team--to build the first atomic bomb. With the series return, it's safe to say that the tension will remain as the show continues to tell a morally gray story about this complicated time in American history, a story that still resonates today as the 70th anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are upon us. Just as the first season centered on building the bomb, Season 2 will be organized around the Trinity Test, the detonation of the world's first atomic weapon on July 16, 1945, at the U.S. Air Force base in Alamogordo, N.M.
Manhattan was broadcast on SBS ONE at Wednesday 29 June 2016, 14:00.