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- CBS
- Jan 1, 2017
- CBS
- Jan 1, 2017
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
- CBS
- Jan 1, 2017
- CBS
- Jan 1, 2017
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
46
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
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.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 35 User Ratings
4.1
40% Positive
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
11% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
49% Negative
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 35 User Ratings
4.1
40% Positive
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
11% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
49% Negative
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
I enjoy the show, I like the actors and the storyline it is believable. I would like to see more seasons, I don't find to many shows I enjoy watching, after awhile I am ready for them to be over. I not sure putting a new show on Saturday nights in the spring and summer was the best ideal.
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SEASON 1
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?
The background mood music is very off putting ,hard to concentrate on the plots due to the constant music sounds.Early days to tell whether it,s a stayer but get rid of that awful background music and it may have a chance.
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SEASON 1
I could not agree more with everything that my fellow 'metacritics' say about this less than average show EXCEPT nobody has mentioned the unbelievably dreadful soundtrack. If you're not sure what it sounds like have a quick listen, it, on its own, was enough for us to delete after only 2 episodes.
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SEASON 1
Another incredibly stupid show from CBS. They've got that formula perfected. Stupid story lines, stupid writing, really cute actors for a stupid audience.
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