Justin Hartley is set to return to TV in his first leading role since This Is Us, but it’s merely a coincidence that Netflix has a new series called The Manny that premiered at roughly the same time. The situation has proven confusing for some fans of the NBC Pearson family saga that ended in 2022, as Hartley’s character Kevin was an actor on a show-within-the-show called The Manny. This Is Us fans took to social media with their thoughts, and I feel exactly the same way.
The Manny is a Mexican rom-com series about — you guessed it — a male nanny who shows up to help a stressed-out executive care for her three children. This show, which can be streamed now with a Netflix subscription, is unrelated to both Justin Hartley’s upcoming CBS drama Tracker and the fictional series from This Is Us, but those facts didn’t keep this fan from writing on X (Twitter):
