TELEVISION SHOW "HOSTAGES"  IS A  REAL LOSER.

THE KUHNS REPORT

Las Vegas - Hello America, and how is the world treating you?

This blog goes out to Kimberly and family who asked that I review the television program HOSTAGES."

Hostages was made for the 2013-14 "American Television Series."  Toni Collette and Dylan McDermott have starring roles. Collette  plays Dr. Ellen Sanders, a world-class surgeon and McDermott plays Duncan Carlise a loose cannon, rogue FBI agent.

Kimberly, so far I see a lot of problems with the show. First off,  the characters in the show are very uninteresting. Put that together with an unbelievable , mish-mosh story line and  it goes down hill from there.

My question: How is this hokey program a real show? It's not. A lot of the scenes really do not work. Collette runs around  spewing old worn out phrases about how she is going to save her family. You have seen and heard these scenes played over and over again in television series since dinasours roamed the earth.

Then  there is this supposed elite team that  Duncan Carlise heads up. On the contrary, this team is so dysfunctional it stretches credibility to no end. Most everyone on the team gets personally involved with the hostages in some way, shape or form. The team also fights among themselves and is distrustful of each other. And what about team member Archer? You have to know that nurse Angela IS NOT DEAD, after you saw his expressions and his bumbling acting response when Carlise asked him: "Did everything go okay?"

Then there are the scenes of the hostages in the bedrooms and other places in the house with discussions between the hostages and kidnappers. It's downright silly.

Kimberly, this show defies any logic whatsoever. For example, in one scene, Dr. Ellen Sanders goes to the grade school of FBI agent Carlise and wanders the halls and gets by (as a stranger) to talk to Cartlise's daughter. Come on! A stranger walks into a school - - is confronted by a staff teacher and all of a sudden winds up roaming the school to find the girl. And all this while she has a tracking chip embedded in her body.

My opinion: This show will take the deep six very soon. It has cliche acting and plots and the story line is just too out of it. The show is actually boring.

How this could make a series is beyond me.

What could have been  a good show would have been an elite team going  to the home of the doctor saying: "You will kill,the President tomorrow or we will kill your family. "Then the doctor should have, out of fear of losing her entire family  botched the operation and killed the president. Then, the show could have carried on a very intersting story line and plot about how the government searches and hunts down the killer team.  A series like that could survive and go on for who knows how long. There are probably tons of other scenarios that could carry a series as it relates to the hostages but this particular plot line is stupid.

But really - -a hit team that planned to murder the President on a scheduled  day of an operation, threatens the surgeon and family and then does not carry through with the threat after the doctor refuses to  do what the team told her to do. Who are you kidding. Any other srious group of killers would have wiped out the docs family. But "NO" they actually take up residence in the doctors home and plan on staying there for WEEKS.. That is really a childish story line.

Other mis-steps of common sense and logic: If this surgeon was to operate on the President what about being vetted?  What about a physical protection detail for the doctor from the Secret Service before and after the surgery. In reality there would be Secret Service agents in the doctors house, around the clock.  Dr. Sanders would be under constant scrutiny. So yes, ---  I think this series HOSTAGES is a stinker.

I predict that many television critics across the country will give a big THUMBS DOWN on this show. Watch you local papers for the shows review by these critics. -  See that I'm right. And, that's my opinion. Make your own decisions. You decide.

Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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