Hostages
Drama, Thriller
This is actually a really good show. This first season reminds me very much of what Homeland's first season felt like. Every episode has a bit of a wow factor and we are continually finding out more and more about the story.
The story is that the president has to go in for surgery of some kind and Dr Sanders (Toni Collette - United States of Tara) is chosen as the best in the field. Someone wants to kill the president so they hold the Doctor and her family hostage and force her to kill him during the procedure. She stalled the first time and now they are running into all of these problems... plus there is a lot more to the story than first seemed.
The head of the group holding the family hostage, Duncan (Dylan McDermott - American Horror Story), is an FBI agent who's wife is the illegitimate daughter of the president, born of rape. She has leukemia and needs the bone marrow of a family member to survive; the president. So now the Doc is semi on Duncan's side...she even kissed him in the last episode... but then she told her husband that she couldn't do it... It's a bit all over the shop.
They're all trapped into the plan now because whoever it is who hired them will kill all of them if they don't somehow pull the plan off, and if they suddenly decide that this team isn't good enough, they can just wipe them out and start again. It's a big fat mess and more things keep going wrong, and more things keep getting revealed and complicating everything all over again. Like I said, big fat mess. But I'm still really interested, so that's a good thing right?
I love Toni Collette and Dylan McDermott. Special mentions to Tate Donovan, Mateus Ward and Quinn Shephard who play the rest of the Sanders family; Rhys Coiro (Entourage), Sandrine Holt and Billy Brown (Sons of Anarchy) as the team holding them hostage, Francie Swift (Gossip Girl) as Duncan's ailing wife; and Joanne Kelly (Warehouse 13) and Brian White (Cabin in the Woods, Beauty and the Beast) who are the big guns hiring people to kill the president.
4 out of 5 balaclavas...
Drama, Thriller
This is actually a really good show. This first season reminds me very much of what Homeland's first season felt like. Every episode has a bit of a wow factor and we are continually finding out more and more about the story.
The head of the group holding the family hostage, Duncan (Dylan McDermott - American Horror Story), is an FBI agent who's wife is the illegitimate daughter of the president, born of rape. She has leukemia and needs the bone marrow of a family member to survive; the president. So now the Doc is semi on Duncan's side...she even kissed him in the last episode... but then she told her husband that she couldn't do it... It's a bit all over the shop.
They're all trapped into the plan now because whoever it is who hired them will kill all of them if they don't somehow pull the plan off, and if they suddenly decide that this team isn't good enough, they can just wipe them out and start again. It's a big fat mess and more things keep going wrong, and more things keep getting revealed and complicating everything all over again. Like I said, big fat mess. But I'm still really interested, so that's a good thing right?I love Toni Collette and Dylan McDermott. Special mentions to Tate Donovan, Mateus Ward and Quinn Shephard who play the rest of the Sanders family; Rhys Coiro (Entourage), Sandrine Holt and Billy Brown (Sons of Anarchy) as the team holding them hostage, Francie Swift (Gossip Girl) as Duncan's ailing wife; and Joanne Kelly (Warehouse 13) and Brian White (Cabin in the Woods, Beauty and the Beast) who are the big guns hiring people to kill the president.
4 out of 5 balaclavas...
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