Hijack (2023)
Who can you trust when it's all on the line?
Expert negotiator Sam Nelson is in for the ride of his life—and so is everyone on board with him—after a group of hijackers take control. Sam will try every move in his playbook to take them down...as the stakes grow higher by the second.
| Type | TV series |
|---|---|
| First aired | 28 June 2023 |
| Status | Returning Series |
| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | George Kay and Jim Field Smith |
| Starring | Idris Elba, Christine Adams and Christian Näthe |
| Seasons | 2 seasons, 15 episodes |
| Episode length | about 46 min |
| Time to watch it all | about 12 hours |
| Rated | TV-MA |
| Scores | TMDB users 7.5/10 |
Where to watch Hijack
Hijack is streaming on Apple TV+ ($12.99 a month) in the US. At ten hours a week, all of the series takes about 1 month of Apple TV+, or $12.99 at list price.
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What kind of watch this is
Hijack is a 2023 drama that strips the airport thriller down to its most uncomfortable component: the human element. Idris Elba plays Sam Nelson, a negotiator who finds himself trapped in the belly of a plane with people who have stopped listening. The series runs 12 hours across 15 episodes, a duration that feels less like a commitment and more like a long, slow suffocation. It is tense not because of the explosions, but because of the silence between the words. You will find yourself checking the time, then wishing you hadn’t.
How it did with audiences
On TMDB, users rate it 7.5 out of 10. No budget or box office figures exist, so the money story stays unwritten. Instead, look at the attention. During the week of its finale, 31 July–6 August 2023, it logged 357 million minutes of viewing time. That performance earned it a spot as the second Apple TV+ show on the Nielsen streaming rankings for original shows. Viewers did the counting.
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Sources
- Hijack on TMDB — synopsis, cast, ratings and recommendations
- Wikidata Q112131897 — review scores, box office and awards (CC0)
- “Hijack (TV series)” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
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