TV Series: Hostages (2013)

★★★/★★★★★

Main Characters:

Toni Collette as Dr. Ellen Sanders

Dylan McDermott as FBI Special Agent Duncan Carlisle

Tate Donovan as Brian Sanders

Quinn Shepard as Morgan Sanders

Mateus Ward as Jake Sanders

Billy Brown as Archer Petit

Sandrine Holt as Sandrine Renault

Rhys Coiro as Kramer Delaney

James Naughton as President Paun Kincaid

Plot:

Dr. Ellen Sanders' family is taken hostage the night before she is scheduled to perform a surgery on President Paul Kincaid. The kidnappers led by a rouge FBI agent, Duncan Carlisle, orders Dr. Sanders to assassinate the president during the surgery in exchange of the freedom of her family.

The plot of the series is what got me to watch this one. It's intriguing and I like the suspense it gives to the audience. At first I was having a hard time understanding the characters but as the story progresses, everything that's happening starts to makes sense. Why Duncan chose Dr. Sanders, why they want the president dead, for whom they're doing that and everything else. And like most thrilling series that make you want to jump inside the story so you can tell the characters what to do, this one has some scenes where you want to grab the characters and redo what they just did. But I guess it's just normal to have some stupid characters/scenes and pot holes in the story. 

I also love Dylan McDermott that's why I watched this one but the other actors were not that good. Their acting was poor which lessen the series' appeal.