A surgeon scheduled to operate on the president wakes up to find her own house has become the trap. This 2022 American thriller series turns a routine assignment into a countdown where every choice made in an operating room carries a political weight.
What is Hostages about?
The night before a high-profile surgery on the sitting president, a rogue federal agent and his crew take over a surgeon's home, holding her husband and children while she is told exactly how the operation must go wrong. What begins as a single impossible demand unravels into a tangle of blackmail, divided loyalties, and a conspiracy that reaches well past the people holding her family hostage. The surgeon has to keep performing her job flawlessly in front of colleagues who suspect nothing, all while negotiating silently with captors who are themselves not fully in control of the plot they started. Each episode tightens the pressure from both sides of the wall, at the hospital and inside the house, as the show builds toward the moment the surgery and the standoff can no longer be kept apart. The series leans on that split setting, cutting between clinical procedure and domestic siege, to keep the tension from settling anywhere for long.
About the cast
The brief for this title does not carry a confirmed cast or director list; K-Time will update this page as soon as verified credits are available.
Context & significance
An American production sitting across drama, mystery, and thriller, the series belongs to the political-hostage genre that pairs a ticking-clock premise with a family under direct threat, a format built for weekly episodes rather than a single sitting.
Watching Hostages on Ktime
This series is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles. Watching needs nothing more than a free K-Time account login, while the show's page itself stays open to read without signing in. K-Time's interface, search, and episode guides are all built in Farsi for the diaspora audience.