“Hostages” – Captivating [TELEVISION REVIEW]
The Danon family held captive in their home in “Hostages.” Photo courtesy of Topic. As I began to watch this crack Israeli series I had a sense of déja vu. Briefly, Dr. Yael Danon, reputedly one of the most proficient surgeons in the country, has been chosen to perform a fairly routine procedure on the Prime Minister. Returning home to her husband Eyal, son Assaf, and daughter Noa, she discovers that all are being held captive at gunpoint. Unnamed forces have hired this disparate band of well-trained criminals to make sure that Yael does their bidding. Their bidding? Make sure the Prime Minister does not survive his surgery. If she doesn’t do as they wish, the family will die. Released in the U.S. for the first time after its 2013 premiere in Israel, it loses not one bit of the tension and palpable fear that would have been its hallmark at the time. The characters are fully developed and all are very complex. With the exception of the saintly Dr. Yael Danon, tis is she through whom all problems are filtered and who must navigate a true Hobson’s Choice, which is to say no choice at all, in choosing between family and country. It is the pure pleasure of this limited, 10 episode…
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