How many episodes are in The Manipulated?

The Manipulated has 12 episodes in this listed season.

When does The Manipulated premiere?

The Manipulated premieres on 2025-11-05.

Is The Manipulated a new series?

The Manipulated is a new series (Season 1).

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The Manipulated(2025)

Also known as Sculpture City • Carved City • Sculptured City

Archived · Disney+

7.71912 eps

S01

CrimeDramaThrillerAction

ON AIR: NOV 5Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

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The Manipulated moves through distinct phases rather than holding a single gear: courtroom procedural, prison survival, and then active revenge pursuit each get their own texture, so the story keeps shifting shape as Tae Jung's situation and options change.

Yo Han is not a vague threat but a specific, calculating architect, and that precision is what gives the antagonism its weight. Tae Jung begins as someone things happen to, and watching grievance harden into method, as he figures out exactly who destroyed his life and how to reach him, is the spine the whole show runs along.

Best for

wrongful imprisonment, courtroom cat-and-mouse and Crime

Story lane

Crime and Drama

Commitment

Season 1 · 12 episodes

Where

Disney+

Official Premise

Mild-mannered Tae Jung is wrongfully imprisoned for a heinous crime. He soon discovers that a mysterious figure named Yo Han orchestrated his downfall. Fueled by vengeance, Tae Jung sets out to make Yo Han pay.

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Strongest Match

Steal keeps the same wronged-everyman pressure as The Manipulated, turning an ordinary office worker into someone forced to act under constant risk. The tension stays propulsive as plans tighten and danger escalates fast, with the cat-and-mouse feeling coming from who can outmaneuver whom before the next move goes wrong.

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Why this pick

The Evil Lawyer delivers the same courtroom-to-survival grind that The Manipulated leans on, with characters trapped by what the system allows. Watching a principled figure get squeezed into harsher choices brings the same adversarial tension, but the tone stays more bitter and tactical, less revenge-chase and more desperate maneuvering.

Flukten fra Bolivia

TV 2 Play • Dec 25, 2025

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In "Flukten fra Bolivia" we are drawn into a fight for survival. Ida, her sister-in-law Michelle and Ida's lover Cecilie are brutally arrested at the airport in Bolivia, accused of smuggling cocaine. The three girls are sentenced to life behind bars in one of the country's poorest women's prisons. Ida quickly realizes that she is surrounded by lies and betrayal, and that no one – not even those closest to her – can be trusted. She is hoping for help from the Norwegian authorities, but instead, help appears from an unexpected source that gives her a chance. A newly established men's magazine has a bold plan to help her escape. Under the protection of a mercenary and with her newborn child in her arms, Ida makes the ultimate choice. She puts her life on the line and embarks on a dangerous escape through the jungles of South America.

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Why this pick

Flukten fra Bolivia shares The Manipulated’s wrongful-imprisonment hook, then ratchets it into relentless survival danger. After the confinement, the story breaks into a tense escape through jungle terrain while trust collapses around the protagonist, making the stakes feel more physical and frantic than methodical revenge.

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