Manhunt: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Manhunt explores how the FBI caught infamous criminal masterminds, with each closed-ended season following a different case.

The show, heavily serialized and darkly psychological in the vein of True Detective, provides insight into the criminal and the case but also the psychological effects the cases have on the FBI agents assigned to hunt down the most dangerous criminals who often delve into a kind of madness of their own, becoming totally absorbed in the crimes and forced to live inside the darkest minds imaginable for years.

Series details

• Title: Manhunt
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama, Crime
• Premiere date: 2017-08-01
• Final broadcast date listed: 2020-02-03
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: Spectrum Originals
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.5/10
• TVMaze ID: 9693
• IMDb ID: tt5618256
• TVDB ID: 326288

Cast and credited roles

• Gethin Anthony — Jack Brennan
• Arliss Howard — Earl Embry
• Kelly Jenrette — Stacey Knox
• Cameron Britton — Richard Jewell
• Paul Bettany — Ted Kaczynski / Unabomber
• Ness Bautista — Joe Holliwell
• Sam Worthington — FBI Special Agent Jim "Fitz" Fitzgerald
• Chris Noth — Don Ackerman
• Jeremy Bobb — Stan
• Jack Huston — Eric Rudolph
• Judith Light — Bobi Jewell
• Desmond Harrington — FBI Head Louis Freeh

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2017-08-01; final listed air date 2017-09-12; episode order: 8.
• Season 2: premiered 2020-02-03; final listed air date 2020-02-03; episode order: 10.

Source and licence

Adapted from Manhunt on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.