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So all this hi-jacking foolishness was about stocks and trading? Let's demolish the reputation of a reputable airline by propping guns to passengers' heads for 7 hours so that stocks ultimately fall and make us rich?

Um...okay.

Also, how was Amanda ultimately not arrested? I get that she was protecting her family (and certainly why), but the decision to initiate her own private hi-jack and resume endangering the lives of 200 passengers is still criminal...regardless of your motive. How could any hi-ranking official decide to let her go?

Furthermore, I felt Idris's (aka "Sam's") need to go back into the plane at the end was forced. That paper bag or whatever the hell he grabbed seemed insignificant, and not enough reason to venture back into the vessel after everyone was specifically told to "leave all of your belongings". The writers were merely desperate for an excuse to provide one final twist. Realistically, officers would have cleared all passengers and ransacked that plane from top to bottom, looking for any assailant in hiding. 🙄

A good premise and a promising first couple of episodes, slowly went downhill to an absolute car crash of a final episode.

Did anyone apply any common sense at all when putting this together? So many obvious plot holes - what about the co-pilot, the police turning up at the flat and walking away, why were they in the flat in the first place, the financial trade would have been cancelled - to make it laughable. The last 5 minutes were actually pointless.

Will we get a series 2? Apply some common sense, real world logic and get some decent writers and may be worth it. A million loose ends could provide plenty of material.

Terrific end like most of the show despite some liberties to common sense. But why didn't anyone think to get the copilot when they were trying to land. Surely the woman would have agreed to let her in but of course they wanted Elba in the cockpit at the end. Have to unfortunately give two less stars for that. Actually the copilot was never seen at the end and one of the criminals got away so many unanswered questions. But overall suspense and drama were maintained at a high energy. That with good acting made this a terrific watch. Highly recommended. Ignore the whiners who find fault with everything. Highly recommended.

This show has been a wild ride from start to finish and while there were a few episodes that were underwhelming, they went out with an action-packed finale. This felt like a movie at times with a lot of action and chaos and tension.

I feel like the last 5 minutes were completely unnecessary and ruined things. I get going for a twist, but I think it was a mistake to just not wrap things up with the plane being landed, especially considering we had just seen those two getting along not too long before that.

Still, a thrilling season/series finale and a good cap off to one of Apple TV+'s best series.

Amanda, the newest hijacker, was smart and as soon as she entered the cockpit she locked the door and didn't let anyone in. I guess somebody knows the rules of protecting the cockpit. Or some writers decided to read the protocol and realized their mistake from episode 1. And what was that response to 999 call? I guess you need to be a main character to be able to rescue Sam's son. Regular cops don't even know to deal with 999 calls. Some commenter was comparing this series to Breaking Bad. Even Tuco is smarter than most of the characters in this series. At the end the writers tried to put some excitement by staging a fake fight between Sam and the lead hijacker. Totally meaningless. And too little too late after 7 episodes of torturous script. The writers have never seen a movie before. Same for the politicians and the passengers. Anybody with some Hollywood culture would avoid all the plot holes on this series.

When you make a seven episode series and you want at all counts and against all odds finish the last episode in fifty minutes instead of a proper twenty , twenty five minutes longer that's what you get and it's undeserving for the fans first and unprofessional for the writers and producer next.

Everything was sort of artificial and not credible, besides the SWAT teams. Great VFX and CGI too, but too suitable and straightforward of storyline plots and especially a very horrible last few seconds ending.

Had the antagonist had grenades, the outcome would have been far less rosy for the persuasive "telepath" protagonist.

/Call me now!/

Screenplay/storyline: 7 Development: 7 Realism: 7 Entertainment: 7 Acting: 7 Filming/cinematography: 7.5 VFX: 8 Music/score: 7 Depth: 6.5 Logic: 5.5 Flow: 7 Drama/thriller: 6.5 Ending: 6.

The Good

I was surprised they shot the villain. Well done. Unexpected. But I was then confused as to what happened with those other two guys after?

I'm glad they didn't kill the stepfather cop just to get Idris back with his ex-wife. Would have been unbearably obvious. Thank you for that. Well done.

I love how he got the "cleaners" out of the house without any heroics and theatrics. Just smarts. Well done.

The Bad

Why would the woman flying the plane ask for Idris? I mean why? What happened to her daughter?

Where was the copilot...You know, the copilot WHO FLYS THAT MODEL PLANE EVERY SINGLE DAY? WHY DO WE NEVER SEE HER AGAIN FOR THE ENTIRE SECOND HALF OF THE EPISODE....? Did she jump out in midair? Why wouldn't the copilot be flying and landing the plane?

A plane crashes. Wouldn't you instantly rush to get off the plane? In the event that who knows, it catches fire? Explodes? (granted they were out of fuel, but you never know), Idris stands on the top step.....taking in the view....and we all know it's going to have a Die Hard knock off ending. The guy with the gun (ugh). Wouldn't the police say "Hey, get off the plane NOW."

Wouldn't there be a slide after an emergency landing?

Wouldn't the police BOARD THE PLANE AND CLEAR IT?? Wouldn't they y'know go and check to see if there are weapons on board or issues or whatever? No they just let Idris waltz back onto the plane to get what? Reading material? Lunacy.

Idris is talking to air traffic control. AND HANGS UP ON THEM to call someone else. You know there is a WHOLE BAG FULL OF PHONES RIGHT? Don't hang up on air traffic control. Call from any one of the million other phones next to you.

Why would that hijacker try to kill Idris? For WHAT PURPOSE NOW? What does he gain from this? It's over. He's surrounded by police....and what you want to do is chase and try to kill Idris in a trapped space on a crashed plane? Idiotic writing. So what, kill him and then walk off the plane surrounded by police with guns pointed? Is that the plane? No they just wanted a hero ending. Even if it makes no sense at all. Also why Idris?

What was the point of Idris's son in the house? How would anything have changed in the entire show? Why did he get out of the closet? Why was he walking around the house? When the cops came why didn't he say something? Run upstairs? Yell something. No...what you want to do is walk slowly like with no agency....

Man just think before you write this. THINK. Ask yourself if any human being would make these decisions?

The "cleaners" at Idris's home. What was the plan? Shoot the cops if they came in and just run away?

Idris tells his wife and kid to "CALL ME" What if they didn't get the message? What if they go it 30 minutes later? What if they were sitting on the loo? And then he what just pushes the guy?

There was no fight. If this was real life there would be fighting tooth and nail. Just a lot of standing around. And game boy.

Also wouldn't the cops HAVE to enter the house to check to see if there was a real emergency or someone was being held against their will?

Plot holes a mile wide.

This is written poorly.

This whole mini series was throughoutly amazing, and Idris Elba's character Sam and his mind is something that made perfect sense and it was a cool show from beginning to end, the reason I give a 10 out of 10 is because I Really love Plane Dramas, and this is some of the best one in the genre, there was obviously some things that could've been explained more for example an epilogue that gives a 1 week later or month later scene or they could've focus on the hijacker's past and motives more, along with the transaction guys that control everything. Also there were obvious plot armor on Sam's boy, like everyone was shot at first sight except him. But regardless, this show can also be a masterpiece with flaws since not everything needs to be perfect. I enjoyed it.

It ends abruptly with multipls unresolved threads, which initially was annoying but I kinda like that.

I had my suspicions given Sam works in finance that he was actually the architect of the whole thing! (And still could be - just because we all see him as "Luther" the gruff but good guy really!)

Enjoyed the twists and turns watching weekly, but felt that Edgar could have lasted a bit longer he was a fantastic antagonist - and thought he'd really push it further.

I envy you now you have the pleasure of binge watching - I've enjoyed the weekly cliff hangers especially with Amanda taking control of the cockpit in the last episode.

So overall want to know: * was Sam in on it?

* did Misha and Dec Daniel drive off into the sunset * what was the fate of the Politicians * what happened to the other escapee and the money?

* who was running the org and did Amanda's daughter survive?

* who was the mysterious man pulling the strings with the "twitter guy" / handed over the demands

Possibly worthy of a second series - might have to have a different title! "Sam Nelson Chronicles Part 2" not as slick as "Luther" LOL.

Ok, I see why so many people weren't at all enthused with how this episode ended. But WHAT IF...Sam was the mastermind behind the whole plane hijacking in the first place? It sounds pretty outrageous, but if you think about the last few minutes of the finale it does sort of make sense. Why was the final hijacker so scared of Sam at that point? Hunting him down and all, what was the point? Why did Sam text his wife "I'm sorry" if not because he thought he was about to be caught? I don't know, but to me that would make a better ending. My husband suggested he was involved after we watched the first episode and now I'm left wondering; was he? 8/10 If he was...maybe 5/10 I'd it really was the lame ending everyone believes it to be.

I'm just joining the choir here really. Every sensible review has already pointed out that this series has been light on plausibility throughout but it has been completely jettisoned for this final installment. The cast were A list but the writing was very much that of a SyFy low budget disaster movie. There is a big difference between suspending disbelief and ignoring stupid.

Air traffic controller who thinks she's in charge. Nonsense! Definite SyFy budget vibes to the silly set and acting here.

Prime Minister in hiding because they don't want to be involved - nonsense! Another silly setting here too.

And my personal favourite - the 999 call where the police turn up to a confirmed person in danger call but walk away because the 'cleaner' (an obvious gangster) says everything is ok - mind-boggling nonsense!

And why were the 'cleaners' actually cleaning? Were they insane or just method assassins?

This last episode could have saved the series after the surprise twist of bad-ass Amanda last episode. Sadly she turned out to be a wet kipper.

Poor Idris. From Luther to this shambles.

It's only 7 hours but it gets worse rather than better as it goes along. I'd skip it if you haven't started yet.

Post-9/11, a flight would immediately be shot down if it was anywhere near any city considered a potential target. Any hijacked aircraft is considered a flying terrorist bomb. Passengers know this, and would not sit by and be submissive. Passengers on United Flight 93 understood that fact and any country with a hijacked plane flying over it understands that fact. The flight would have been shot down over Turkey.

Additionally, they would not be low on fuel with a slight course deviation. Pilots don't give up the cockpit. Terrorists agreeing to a fake ground evacuation? Lazy writing - just another example of how the writers don't understand air transportation in this entire series.

The premise of doing this all as stock short on Kingdom Airlines is another ludicrous plot twist. Any transactions would be frozen and not settled - the perpetrators would get zero.

This last episode is the worst of a badly written series. Completely ludicrous.

Wow, that has got to be one of the dumbest finales I've ever seen. The whole show was pretty outlandish, but the finale went above and beyond to prove how weak the writing was on this show. The first thing that comes to mind is when Sam's kid called 999, and relays that something is terribly wrong. The cops show up and a cleaner that looks very odd is able to tell them a few lines of bs and they walk away. Then there's the final few minutes. Nobody is going to walk back on a plane that just crash landed to grab anything. But then the main hijacker wants to kill Sam? Why? The show led me to believe, that like everyone else that was involved in the hijacking they were also being blackmailed into committing these crimes. Sam never did anything to make him want to kill him, in fact he helped save the whole plane from imminent death. Then the ending is just him getting arrested after the worst attempt at a climax that I've ever seen. So one would think that we'd learn who else was involved in this master plan, that was capable of making all these people commit these criminal acts that they weren't going to be able to walk away from. Instead they cut to black. I could see if you are going to have a season two, but usually they give you something that makes you want to watch the next season, like a cliffhanger. Instead there was nothing. What a waste of some talented actors, and what a waste of my time. I would rather get punched in the face than watch a season two of this show, if it ends up having one. A punch isn't that much worse than the slap in the face that the creators of this show gave to everybody with a brain who spent around 7 hours watching the stupid show.

There are 3 things that bother me so much after watching this episode.

Throughout the show, Sam is portrayed as a smart person who understands his circumstances based on the environments and his surroundings. How would he return to the cabin to get his gift after leaving the plane? Equally perplexing is the fact that Stuart also remained in the cabin. It doesn't make sense when all the passenger grabbed the other hijackers out but not the leader. The whole fighting scene is unnecessary.

Secondly, how can the lady that killed the pilot and locked herself in the cockpit actually get away from all of things and see her daughter?

Also, I find it odd that the door closed automatically just before Sam exited of the plane. From my understanding, closing such a door is quite difficult by one person, not to mention when the passengers were getting out.

This ending actually ruins such a great concept and all the build ups in all the previous episodes.

As the armed police surround the plane, they receive this helpful tidbit:

"The ringleader's got a beard"

To which they reply:

"Yeah, yeah - we've got him."

In reality, they had grabbed the first hirsute male to disembark. I'm not sure if the police have this kind of advanced technology, but sending an actual picture would've been helpful, if not just to save us from the last incongruous 5 minutes of this episode, which felt lifted directly from an unreleased Jean-Claude Van Damme movie.

As for the woman who blasted a man's head to smithereens, hijacked a plane, then was let off "because it wasn't her fault" - what an absolute shambles of a plot development

The writing for this show was subpar throughout, but this final episode felt like a gust of wind blew through the writer's room, rearranged everything, and the producers just decided to go with it.

Strange to see George Kay, the writer of the superb French show Lupin, create this utter tripe - he should probably stick to adaptations. Idris Elba makes it somehow watchable even though his character is massively underdeveloped. Unfortunately the premise is so dumb that it's hard to believe anything that's going on - the show sets up situations that make little sense (i.e. Why would a hijacker leave a bullet in the airplane loo? Why do the hijackers use blanks in their guns? Why would the Home Secretary allow two organised crime leaders out of prison? Why would he accept brown envelope from a stranger in the street? Why would the trader be on the plane? Who is the city gentleman who speaks to the journalist? Why doesn't the co-pilot land the plane? Etc..), and nothing is resolved at all at the end - does Sam accept that his marriage is over? Does the bearded crime leader get away? Does their scheme to short the airline stock and get rich work? Don't bother watching this complete and utter rubbish. Watch Lupin instead - it's beautifully and intricately plotted and really well-written.