Apple TV Thriller Drags
Variety • • general
Key Points:
- Season 2 of Apple TV’s “Hijack” shifts from a tense airplane hijacking to a hostage situation on a Berlin U-Bahn train, featuring Idris Elba’s character Sam Nelson in a more exhausted and uncertain state.
- The new season introduces multiple characters and plotlines outside the train, including Berlin police and MI5 agents, which complicates the narrative and detracts from the central tension.
- Unlike the streamlined, high-tension storytelling of Season 1, Season 2 is criticized for being clunky and overly serious, with a fragmented storyline that weakens viewer engagement.
- Themes of global surveillance, revenge, and grief are explored but ultimately overshadow the thriller elements that made the first season compelling.
- Despite
