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- 2017
- TV-14
- CBS
- 2017
- TV-14
- CBS
Summary Crisis and hostage negotiator Eric Beaumont (Luke Roberts) and his team travel around the world to help with difficult kidnap and ransom cases in this drama from David Vainola and Spotnitz was inspired by real life crisis negotiator Laurent Combalbert.
Created By: Frank Spotnitz, David Vainola
- 2017
- TV-14
- CBS
- 2017
- TV-14
- CBS
Ransom (2017)
Season 1 Premiere: 2017
46
4.4
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Summary Crisis and hostage negotiator Eric Beaumont (Luke Roberts) and his team travel around the world to help with difficult kidnap and ransom cases in this drama from David Vainola and Spotnitz was inspired by real life crisis negotiator Laurent Combalbert.
Created By: Frank Spotnitz, David Vainola
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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92% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
8% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
46
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
92% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
8% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
There are likely to be more to come on a network that only occasionally fails to keep its crime hours in play for multiple seasons. Ransom is easier to take than some of them, and with a hero who doesn’t have to brandish a gun to get the job done.
It’s not bad television, really. It’s just by-the-CBS-book television.
Ransom needs some stirring. Ex-cop Zara Hallam (Nazneen Contractor, “Heroes Reborn”) rounds out the team, and she gets little to do in this hour, a crime one can only hope will be rectified in future episodes.
Mostly it's just an even more egregiously boring version of all the other CBS police procedurals with their cookie-cutter characters and plots.
What is supposed to bring us back to this series is the prospect of regular doses of hostage-taking and hostage-saving, a sort of clickbait of TV plotting. Is there a bigger cliché in law enforcement television than the "put the gun down," "take your finger off the detonator," etc. standoff?
User Score
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Based on 37 User Ratings
4.4
43% Positive
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11% Mixed
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46% Negative
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 37 User Ratings
4.4
43% Positive
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
11% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
46% Negative
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
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Production Company:
- Big Light Productions
- Korda Studios
- Shaw Media
- Sienna Films
- TF1
- Videoassist.hu
- Wildcats Productions
- Wildcats
Initial Release Date: 2017
Number of seasons: 3 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
Awards
Canadian Screen Awards, CA
• 2 Nominations
The Joey Awards, Vancouver
• 1 Nomination
Young Entertainer Awards
• 1 Nomination
