Genre: Thriller
Directed by Jim Field Smith
Written by George Kay
Starring: Idris Elba, Neil Maskell, Eve Myles, Christine Adams, Max Beesley, Archie Panjabi, Ben Miles & Kate Phillips.
Executive producers: Idris Elba, George Kay, Jim Field Smith, Kris Thykier, Hakan Kousetta, Jamie Laurenson
Production companies: 60Forty Films, Archery Pictures, Green Door Pictures, Idiotlamp Productions
Network: Apple TV+
Plot: When Flight KA29 is hijacked during its seven-hour journey from Dubai to London, corporate negotiator Sam Nelson tries to use his professional skills to save everyone on board.
Thee hijack Limited series was very good.
Pros: I liked Idris Elba as the main lead of the show. There’s a lot of tension when the full plane being hijacked. The story was exactly straightforward and the performances from each of actors who played the wireless, the plane crew, hijackers, citizens and government officials were all very good in there roles.
Cons: Also some of the government officials choices and decisions did frustrate me. Other plotlines going in the story didn’t intrigued me and the ending did felt a bit flat.
Casts & Characters:
Main:
Idris Elba as Sam Nelson, a corporate business negotiator
- Neil Maskell as Stuart Atterton / Gerald Taylor, the leader of the hijackers
- Eve Myles as Alice Sinclair, an air traffic controller at London Heathrow Airport
- Christine Adams as Marsha Smith-Nelson, a physics professor who is Sam’s estranged wife
- Max Beesley as DI Daniel O’Farrel, Marsha’s current boyfriend, a Metropolitan Police officer
- Archie Panjabi as DCI Zahra Gahfoor, O’ Farrel’s former partner who is a member of SO15
- Ben Miles as Captain Robin Allen, the pilot of Kingdom Airlines Flight 29
- Hattie Morahan as the British foreign minister
- Kate Phillips as Collette Fisher, a flight attendant who is having an affair with Robin
Recurring:
- Harry Michell as Hugo, the passenger sitting next to Sam
- Mohammad Faisal Mostafa as Abdullah, a Dubai air traffic controller who manages KA29
- Zora Bishop as Deevia Khan, the lead flight attendant
- Jasper Britton as Marcus Sutton, one of the hijackers
- Aimée Kelly as Jamie Constantinou / Bella Cunningham, one of the hijackers
- Jack McMullen as Lewis Constantinou / Ryan Cunningham, one of the hijackers
- Mohamed Elsandel as Jaden / Alexander Kier, one of the hijackers
- Holly Aird as Amanda, a passenger
- Jeremy Ang Jones as Arthur, a flight attendant
- Fatima Adoum as Rashida, a passenger
- Nebras Jamali as Nasir, a passenger
- Antonia Salib as Neela Leesha, an airport security screener who leaves her station mysteriously
- Gretchen Egolf as Adelaide
- Lucia Aliu as Lizzy Blakefield
- Mei Henri as Naomi, a teenage passenger
- Chantelle Alle as Kacey, a teenage passenger
- Alex Macqueen as Tindall, a government official
I highly recommend watching this series on Apple TV+.
Rating: 9 out of 10 Stars
Ryan Balkwill:
Resident TV reviewer,
Level Best Art Cafe