Apple TV+'s Hijack is a fun, '90s thriller, but its bloated runtime spoils some of its charm; roryhasopinions reviews:
comes to us in. The limited series thriller stars Idris Elba as a mediator who finds his skills put to the test when his Dubai to London flight is taken over by armed gunmen, and is refreshingly frank about its goals. This is nuts-and-bolts escapism, a show that colors its charactersto deliver the rollercoaster thrills of a high concept premise, and cleverly written to ensure a satisfactory conclusion to its narrative crisis.
Clearly, the gimmick of following the flight in real time lends itself to longer form storytelling, but it still feels like a pure distillation of Peak TV’s general: this was commissioned years ago by a platform desperate for eye-catching ideas, but yet establishing a tone and quality control for their programming, and is releasing at a time where we’re much more critical of what we spend our time watching.’s exciting nature a little bit; it’s pretty well-executed, high-octane fun.
The writing, led by creators Jim Field Smith and George Kay understands that thrillers like these need shrewd, sharp problem-solving at every stage; how can the passengers win a slight advantage, how can they work together to gain and undermine the hijackers’ trust, how can they secretly pass out messages to the outside world? From about the second episode , we get a steady, regular series of 4D chess-style attempts to outsmart their captors, with the ensemble of crew and passengers filled with...
The hijacking can only be thwarted, of course, with the help of people on the ground. It’s up to security teams, spearheaded by Zahra , and British ground control officers, led by Alice , to work out what’s happening up there, read through coded cries for help, and figure out a way to land them safely. These two threads work perfectly; many shows can be improved with recurring cutaways to people on conference calls and in boardrooms.
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