Ransom (2017): Season 1

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Season Details & Credits

CBS | Season Premiere Date: January 1, 2017

Starring: Brandon Jay McLaren, Luke Roberts, Nazneen Contractor

Summary: Crisis and hostage negotiator Eric Beaumont (Luke Roberts) and his team travel around the world to help with difficult kidnap and ransom cases in this drama from David Vainola and Spotnitz was inspired by real life crisis negotiator Laurent Combalbert.

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Suspense

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E13. Bulletproof
Air Date: April 15, 2017
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S1:E12. Refuge
Air Date: April 8, 2017
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S1:E11. The Castle
Air Date: March 25, 2017

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Uncle Barky Ed Bark

Jan 3, 2017

There are likely to be more to come on a network that only occasionally fails to keep its crime hours in play for multiple seasons. Ransom is easier to take than some of them, and with a hero who doesn’t have to brandish a gun to get the job done. Read full review

Tom Long

Dec 30, 2016

It’s not bad television, really. It’s just by-the-CBS-book television. Read full review

Chancellor Agard

Jan 3, 2017

In general, lack of energy is a problem for this show. It’s missing that electricity that makes investing in yet another great man procedural worth it. Read full review

Neil Genzlinger

Dec 31, 2016

What is supposed to bring us back to this series is the prospect of regular doses of hostage-taking and hostage-saving, a sort of clickbait of TV plotting. Is there a bigger cliché in law enforcement television than the "put the gun down," "take your finger off the detonator," etc. standoff? Read full review

Glenn Garvin

Jan 8, 2017

Mostly it's just an even more egregiously boring version of all the other CBS police procedurals with their cookie-cutter characters and plots. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Dec 31, 2016

I never shook the feeling that I was watching something that, from cast to the overall aesthetic, we weren't meant to see on American network TV. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Dec 31, 2016

It's pretty uninspired even by CBS procedural standards. Read full review

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fraxilia

Jun 20, 2017

ethic series
I write from Germany. Some friends and me love this series: all of it, the content, the actors, the idea of nonviolence. We need a world with people as they are shown in Mr. Beaumonts team. Continue please!

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lacrachat

Jan 13, 2018

Shows the truth about how it could really work. Follows the leads and but the end of the show you are glad that there are people out there that really does this.

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Sandra41

Jul 3, 2018

I enjoy the show, I like the actors and the storyline it is believable. I would like to see more seasons, I don't find to many shows I enjoy watching, after awhile I am ready for them to be over. I not sure putting a new show on Saturday nights in the spring and summer was the best ideal.

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sg17112

Feb 25, 2017

My mother and I really like this show. We usuallly watch the Saturday night episode on Sunday afternoon 'On Deand'. It's different than a standard cop show. Eric and the team out-think their target(s). Though they don't use guns, there is still enough drama to keep us interested. As forMy mother and I really like this show. We usuallly watch the Saturday night episode on Sunday afternoon 'On Deand'. It's different than a standard cop show. Eric and the team out-think their target(s). Though they don't use guns, there is still enough drama to keep us interested. As for the critics, I don't trust most of those outlets they work for to bring me unbiased, honest news reporting --- so why would I think those outlets can do any better at hiring competent critics to review my entertainment??!
Basically, this is not my favorite show, but it is definitely in a group of shows that I really like. I would give it a solid B+ or an 8 of 10 score.… Expand

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Dexter1957

Jun 18, 2017

The background mood music is very off putting ,hard to concentrate on the plots due to the constant music sounds.Early days to tell whether it,s a stayer but get rid of that awful background music and it may have a chance.

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insert_here

Jan 21, 2017

Another incredibly stupid show from CBS. They've got that formula perfected. Stupid story lines, stupid writing, really cute actors for a stupid audience.

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Ripandread

Jan 11, 2017

After watching two episodes of this program I took it off my “DVR List” because I found the acting to be very stilted, especially from the lead character. As for the episodes, they are mediocre at best.

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 3

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- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: February 16, 2019
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: April 7, 2018
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: January 1, 2017
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  S1:E13. Bulletproof
  Air Date: April 15, 2017
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  S1:E12. Refuge
  Air Date: April 8, 2017
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  S1:E11. The Castle
  Air Date: March 25, 2017
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  S1:E10. The Artist
  Air Date: March 11, 2017
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  S1:E9. Girl on a Train
  Air Date: March 4, 2017
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  S1:E8. Say What You Did
  Air Date: February 25, 2017
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  S1:E7. Regeneration
  Air Date: February 18, 2017
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  S1:E6. Celina
  Air Date: February 11, 2017
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  S1:E5. The Enemy Within
  Air Date: February 4, 2017
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  S1:E4. Joe
  Air Date: January 28, 2017
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  S1:E3. The Box
  Air Date: January 21, 2017
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  S1:E2. Grand Slam
  Air Date: January 7, 2017
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  S1:E1. The Return
  Air Date: January 1, 2017