Hijack [Apple]

Agent Coulson · 26-07-2023 03:41AM

Now that’s how to do a cliffhanger going into last episode.

fritzelly · 26-07-2023 10:22PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120896973#Comment_120896973

Yup lol - was like goodie or baddie then ok that settles that

RocketRaccoon · 27-07-2023 11:25AM

How did none of the hijackers notice Sams hands were free when he held up the pen? Then a little while later, he had to ask the passenger next to him to cut him free so he could shake things up.

Doodah7 · 27-07-2023 09:57PM

That was fan-f*cking-tastic.

30-07-2023 06:50PM

This is so good!!! Sorry I didn’t wait another week to binge so I could have it watched!!

stargazer 68 · 30-07-2023 06:55PM

Loving it so far. Excellent cliff hanger!

As for the plot holes we'll it's a tv entertainment programme not a documentary :)

The Black Oil · 31-07-2023 07:21AM

Yeah, I liked that the writing felt able to back itself into a corner somewhat. Good to see an old school Volvo too.

AMKC · 01-08-2023 12:58AM

That was good. I love how it's all so tense and draws you into it. Great cliff hanger too. How long have we got to wait till season 2?

AMKC · 01-08-2023 01:10AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120876721#Comment_120876721

The Max Beasley character is an absolute pillock, I need a tissue ah yeah off you go lol. She was barely moving and they couldn't catch her, useless.

Ye I thought that too. They should have been on her long before she got to the road but hey maybe all the twigs on the ground slowed them down.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120885817#Comment_120885817

Thing is, how do you get into the cockpit? Gotta write some contrivance cos yeah

Easy. Pretend you have a bomb connected to your second phone which you will set off if they do not let you in.

pixelburp · 01-08-2023 03:16PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120923822#Comment_120923822

Ok: then how did the bomb get onboard? Now you need even more breaches in security in the airport, more wheels to turn to get the device onto the plane in the first place.

I'm not saying the blackmail wasn't a bit daft, it's just with the nature of the location & requirements of the plot, it struck me as the "least worst" option taken.

AMKC · 01-08-2023 07:04PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120926234#Comment_120926234

The same way the gun or guns got on board.

JoeA3 · 01-08-2023 10:27PM

I like this series but I think without Idris Elba it would barely get a mention. Elba is a very charming charismatic guy and despite a patchy enough record on TV/film he is still a “name” and can carry a show. Apart from him, the cast is very much Sky1 / ITV and feels it. The Max Beasley character, as someone else mentioned here, is absolutely dreadful! Total wet blanket. I’m not sure what’s happened to him since the excellent “Bodies”.

The guy released from prison that he was tailing was a bit of a cliche too. Hard man “geezer” with all the threats.

Anyway, it’s not bad at all overall, the tension is good and they’ve set it up very well indeed for the last episode.

As for 2nd series? lol…. How? Idris to do a John McClane and find himself in another “bad situation”? I don’t think so. This feels like a one season wonder.

Agent Coulson · 01-08-2023 10:33PM

I hope there is a proper ending however they way these thing work I doubt it and will be left set up another season.

A proper ending and no season two on a train or season three on a cruise ship.

I really like Idris and will watch almost anything he is in but I actually don’t think he is a great actor.

Idris to me is someone who who just had huge charisma and is extremely amazing screen presence.

JoeA3 · 01-08-2023 10:42PM

Totally agree. I like him too and he seems effortlessly cool. But his record is patchy, either because he has a habit of picking duds or he’s just not very good?

There’s another film of his on Netflix right now, in the top 10. A very much Jason Bourne influenced thing that I’m sure he might have hoped would have led to Bourne-like sequels. But despite starting well I thought it was a really poor movie and it wasn’t received particularly well generally.

fritzelly · 01-08-2023 10:42PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120927835#Comment_120927835

Well there is a bigger story there with the crime syndicate that they could easily extend the show and Apple are not left wanting renewing stuff

Agent Coulson · 01-08-2023 10:53PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120927887#Comment_120927887

That’s what I was thinking however then the title of the show goes out the window.

Hijack season 2.3,4 etc with no actual hijacks.

I guess they could have called the show after the characters name but that had already been done by Idris.

fritzelly · 01-08-2023 11:01PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120927931#Comment_120927931

Cruise ship next...oh hasn't that been done before...

Agent Coulson · 01-08-2023 11:18PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120927961#Comment_120927961

As was the train and both were stinkers.

The Black Oil · 02-08-2023 06:56AM

Well, if it all goes south they could put a bomb on a milk float.

tiegan · 02-08-2023 07:34AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120927885#Comment_120927885

What's the name of this film please?

AMKC · 02-08-2023 09:04AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120927931#Comment_120927931

Yes they should have based it on a plane from Australia or New Zealand to the UK that way they might have at least got 3 maybe even 4 seasons out of it.

JoeA3 · 02-08-2023 09:42AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120928534#Comment_120928534

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2368619/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

fritzelly · 02-08-2023 08:06PM

Bit of an anti-climatic final episode

Agent Coulson · 02-08-2023 08:52PM

Very anti climatic indeed.

A fun show over all that’s best left there now.

02-08-2023 09:02PM

Ah I enjoyed it for what it was!

ejmaztec · 02-08-2023 09:47PM

Next - Hijack-The Aftermath Part One. 😛

moby2101 · 02-08-2023 10:20PM

As others have pointed out, disappointing ending to a decent show.

Elba has star quality, amazed that he hasn’t landed a Jack Ryan stylised show on one of the big streaming platforms.

Great to see Archie Panjabi on TV again , she rocked it a long time ago now as Kalinda on The Good Wife .

squonk · 02-08-2023 11:44PM

Definitely the weakest episode of the lot but I suppose it had to come down sometime (pun intended). 😀. Lots of plot holes, like they really should have shot it down. It was only the most sensible thing to do. Plane had obviously just enough fuel to get it on the ground. Good thing the plane got hijacker’s and could land when it liked instead of getting caught in a holding pattern for Heathrow. They’d really have been in trouble then.😀. It remained on course largely the entire flight. There should have been an extra hour at least of reserve. It would have been crap without Idris really. Great summer show though.

JoeA3 · 02-08-2023 11:50PM

Awful silly ending tbh. The notion that the woman at the controls at the end would get any favourable treatment, never mind escape punishment, is beyond credible. The crash landing sequence looked cheap and not believable, I’ve seen better effects on Air Crash investigations.

It did feel like they were setting up Elba’s character for a potential sequel of sorts, and not doing a very good job of it either imo, as the whole airplane evac sequence was silly. An every-man hero ala John McClane.

The Beasley character again was really weak. That side of the story very much reminded me of the “Taken” movies where Neeson’s wife had shacked up with a very limp individual while her ex is off saving the world.

I wonder would they have been better to end it ambiguously… E.g. passengers storming the cockpit and then fade to black. Would have been more believable anyway.

Slydice · 03-08-2023 12:49AM

4: Ah I like how clever they have Idris Elba. Could kinda read that note handed to the politician by pausing.

Sam working around the folks on the plane in the smallest ways. Guessing that the gang on the ground might have his son though.

Looks like the airplane is the only thing at risk from what I could make out. That they'd either crash it or blow it up or something. No other specific target mentioned just that they want two people released from prison.

Hijack [Apple]

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