Hostage

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 with the bureau of DEI monitoring every step and casting call.

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 Hallmark series.

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.

UK Intelligence agencies, MI5 & MI6 are still one of the best in the world. Yet this series depicted that they were failures to protect their PM and her family. Had no clue what was happening on the streets of Loondon! Diplomatic relations between two rich and developed nations at the highest level looked like a family feud.

Poor plot, inadequate research and below par direction. Not worth the time.

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.

Started falling asleep in episode one. Completely boring with bad acting and a farcical story, couldn't be bothered watching the rest of it to be honest but the mrs is continuing because of Suranne Jones so its background watching for me. I do like Suranne myself but this is probably the worst tv she's done to date.

The storyline has more holes than a wheel of Swiss cheese. So utterly unrealistic it makes a farce of the show's feeble attempt at the gritty realism it attempted to achieve. Any more words are undeserved. A shameful embarrassment of a production.

Apparently more characters are necessary for my review to be accepted...