MANHATTAN: Season 2 airs Tuesday 9/8c on WGN America.
From creator and writer Sam Shaw (âMasters of Sexâ) and EmmyÂŽ Award-winning director Thomas Schlamme (âThe West Wingâ), the second season of WGN Americaâs critically acclaimed and Emmy winning original drama series MANHATTAN follows the tangled lives of the residents of Los Alamos, New Mexico as they race to create the first nuclear bomb in history. Locked away in the world's most secretive city, the scientists and their families surrender their freedoms, compromise their marriages, and even sacrifice their sanity to end one war and usher in another â the Cold War waiting just over the atomic horizon â all while embedded spies and a climate of paranoia threaten to destroy the project from within.
Cast: Rachel Brosnahan, Michael Chernus, Christopher Denham, Katja Herbers John Benjamin Hickey, Harry Lloyd, Daniel Stern, Olivia Williams, Ashley Zukerman, Mamie Gummer, William Petersen, Neve Campbell, Griffin Dunne