Rehén

I don't know why but teenage daughters on tv are the most irritating of all. The kid is in the public eye and yet she acts overly dramatic with her teenage angst making anything and everything difficult for her PM mother. They should have kidnapped her instead. Or better yet, just not have her character in the show.

With the daughter out of the picture, it is a good watch full of suspense.

I highly anticipated this series because of Suranna Jones.

How sorry I am that, even she fails to reach her usual level of acting in this horrible written series.

What were they thinking? Did they think that the viewer is too stupid to recognize a dreadful script? Too many completely unrealistic storylines and bad acting make me advise you to stay away from this...complete waste of time.

This is British Netflix series which appears has been invaded by the worst of Hollywood or Americanised script writers or AI plagiarism with cookie cutter characters, ridiculous situations, and unlikable characters all borrowed from the BBC's book of DEI monitoring in every step and casting call and a bad guy copy and paste dialogue ripped straight out of A Few Good Men

Starts off with promise and quickly descend into twists you can see a mile off and some dodgy acting in parts ,with good guys that are just too good and bad guys who are just too bad making you almost cheer for the bad guys.

Tries to be John le Carre and ends up like a Judy Collins.

The final scene is supposed to be a rah rah rah political message but is so vapid it just ends up reminding us why trust in our politicians is at all time low.

Having read a 4* review by Lucy Mangan in The Guardian, I thought I'd give it a whirl.

Save yourself the time: it's soap opera territory, with more holes than a piece of swiss cheese.

I like Suranne Jones, but the plot and the script are so lightweight, and spectacularly predictable.

I really struggled to stay awake.

Hostage offers a great, if unlikely premise and excellent performances by its cast. Expect a fun ride full of plot twists and red herrings - a surefire recipe for keeping viewers bingeing on the five relatively short episodes. While the thrills are there, there's little relationship to reality in the series.