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  • Sep 5, 2006
  • FOX
  • Sep 5, 2006
Standoff

Summary Matt Flannery and Emily Lehman are top-ranked crisis negotiators in the FBI's Crisis Negotiation Unit who are trained to talk their way through volatile situations. They make an outstanding team professionally, but their relationship is a bit more precarious off the job. The series advances the fundamental idea that in life and in love "...

Created By: Craig Silverstein

  • FOX
  • Sep 5, 2006
  • FOX
  • Sep 5, 2006
Standoff
Season 1
Season Premiere: Sep 5, 2006
Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
37
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Summary Matt Flannery and Emily Lehman are top-ranked crisis negotiators in the FBI's Crisis Negotiation Unit who are trained to talk their way through volatile situations. They make an outstanding team professionally, but their relationship is a bit more precarious off the job. The series advances the fundamental idea that in life and in love "...

Created By: Craig Silverstein

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 5, 2006 • 45 m
Pilot
An FBI hostage negotiation team with a personal relationship try to work with a suicide bomber to release hostages and get him to stand down.
Episode 2 • Sep 12, 2006 • 50 m
Circling
An air traffic controller suspected in a mid-air collision takes the tower hostage, and Matt must find some way to get through to him before hundreds die in the planes he's preventing from landing.
Episode 3 • Sep 19, 2006 • 50 m
Shanghai'd
After the team finds out a crime boss' daughter has been kidnapped, they have to use their skills on both another agent whose tap it was, and the father before starting things with the negotiator.
Episode 4 • Sep 26, 2006 • 48 m
Partners in Crime
Matt's ability to separate his feelings from the job are called into question when Emily is taken hostage.
Episode 5 • Oct 31, 2006 • 49 m
Life Support
A hostage situation at a hospital brings back memories for Matt that may complicate the negotiations.
Episode 6 • Nov 7, 2006
One Shot Stop
When an infamous sniper turns out to be a copycat, Matt and Emily try to draw the real shooter out before more people are killed.
Episode 7 • Nov 14, 2006 • 50 m
Man of Steele
A man cheated out of an adoption takes a young girl hostage, and the team reluctantly works with an obstructive local shock jock to resolve the crisis.
Episode 8 • Nov 21, 2006 • 51 m
Heroine
When a hostage becomes attached to Matt in the aftermath of her kidnapping, her claims of a stalker begin to worry Emily.
Episode 9 • Nov 28, 2006 • 50 m
Peer Group
Episode 10 • Dec 5, 2006 • 50 m
Accidental Negotiator
Emily and Matt end up sidelined in a negotiation when the HT will only talk to the first woman he spoke with, but her actions and demands put the operation at risk.
Episode 11 • Dec 12, 2006
Borderline
Matt and Emily cross the border unauthorized, tracking an escaped HT, but the tables are neatly turned when they find him and end up trapped.
Episode 12 • Jun 8, 2007 • 50 m
No Strings
Episode 13 • Jun 15, 2007 • 51 m
Backfire
Two hostage crises split Matt and Emily: A train with too-knowledgeable HTs do a Houdini; and a schizophrenic patient breaks with reality, taking his doctor and her husband hostage.
Episode 14 • Jun 22, 2007 • 50 m
Road Trip
When a cult leader abducts one of his followers and takes to the road, Matt and Emily's only chance to prevent an explosive outcome is to reach out to one of the members in the R.V.
Episode 15 • Jun 29, 2007 • 52 m
Lie to Me
A young boy is abducted from the Santa Monica Pier.
Episode 16 • Jul 6, 2007 • 48 m
Ex-Factor
Episode 17 • Jul 13, 2007 • 51 m
The Kids in the Hall
Episode 18 • Jul 20, 2007 • 52 m
Severance

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
37
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2 Reviews
40% Mixed
8 Reviews
50% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
37
10% Positive
2 Reviews
40% Mixed
8 Reviews
50% Negative
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75
Standoff doesn't recreate the genre, but it certainly refreshes it. [15 Sep 2006, p.64]
By Gillian Flynn FULL REVIEW
50
From start to finish, "Standoff" is slickly contrived, formulaic crime drama nonsense.
By Mike Duffy FULL REVIEW
40
"Standoff" does seem to emerge miraculously out of the fumes of '70s TV - a near-perfect reformulation of every bone-weary cliche, every hackneyed piece of cop chatter (Dan Tanna lives!) that last-century TV glorified in.
By Verne Gay FULL REVIEW
38
If Matt and Emily blow up, the show doesn't get a second episode. Because they'll be dead. Keep your fingers crossed.
By Doug Elfman FULL REVIEW
30
The tonal dissonance in "Standoff" is deafening, like pairing up, say, Jewel and Meat Loaf for a duet.
By Matthew Gilbert FULL REVIEW
20
The series premiere suffers from a catalog of problems longer than most demand lists.
By Barry Garron FULL REVIEW
10
An awkward pairing of adult relationship drama and procedural cop show, "Standoff" bombs on both counts.
By Phil Gallo FULL REVIEW

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