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Topic: American Hostage

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Set in the 1970s, the psychological thriller tells the harrowing true story of Fred Heckman, a beloved Indianapolis radio reporter who is thrust into the middle of a life-or-death crisis when hostage-taker Tony Kiritsis demands to be interviewed on his popular radio news program.

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Re: American Hostage

First episode was great - looks very promising.

Stellar cast with Jon Hamm, Giovanni Ribisi, Mireille Einos and many more familiar faces.
So far Ribisi is imho out-performing Hamm, but probably too soon to tell smile

I am not familiar with the real-life story that this is based on, so I can't tell how accurate it is.

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Re: American Hostage

Oh I remember reading about this story. Read a book on it, was absolutely crazy. I'm going to wait until it all airs, as I think it has massive potential to be one of those shows that's gonna be on your mind all week between episodes.

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Re: American Hostage

This would have been better as a movie. 5 episodes in and I'm already feeling its 2 episodes to long... Another 3 to go zzzzzzzzzz