Peacock’s new original show continues NBC’s obsession with missing planes

How many times will NBC make a TV series with an airplane that mysteriously disappears in an attempt to copy the success of Lost? As the trailer for the upcoming Peacock original series Departure if anything, the answer is “at least three times in less than a decade.”

Departure, a miniseries with six episodes which will be released on September 17, tells the story of passenger plane Flight 716, which disappears “shockingly” mid-flight, causing a team of investigators to try to unmask the collision before another plane disappears. It may sound like a small known as you have seen the last ten and a half network television.

In 2004 Lost debuted on ABC, told the story of Oceanic Airline Flight 815, which disappears into thin air during a routine flight and crashes on a mysterious tropical island, and a massively successful flashback reliant, conspiracy-laden TV series launching pop culture for years .

Lost ended in May 2010, and the following season NBC was already looking to pick up audiences The event, a similar flashback-dependent, suspense-laden TV series that – presumably by total coincidence – ends its first episode with Avias Airways Flight 514 disappearing into thin air. Despite his similarities with Lostthe “neither show nor tell” approach when it came to explaining his mysteries, The event lasted only one season before it was canceled.

But NBC was not done with dropping the early specific subgenre of “plane disappears all of a sudden, a great conspiracy began.” In 2018, the network debuted Manifesto, that tells the story of Montego Air Flight 828, which (you guessed it) disappeared mid-flight, only to reappear years later, by starting more questions and supernatural mysteries. Manifesto was recently re-released for a third season back in June, which means NBC will be the proud owner of two completely unrelated conspiracy programs to make the plane disappear, along with the air.

In defense of NBC, Departure seems to take a departure from the network’s previous disappearing air shows and takes a more groundbreaking approach to the concept. The series appears to pin down the missing flight on a more conventional terrorist attack, not a supernatural event caused by powerful aliens or unexplined forces.

That said, if it turns out that the disappearance of Flight 828 was caused by an energy portal that took passengers to a tropical island that also serves as a winding metaphor for vegetation, do not say I did not warn you.