Idris Elba’s 15-Part Thriller Is the Streaming Hit Critics Didn’t Predict

Critics have been divided on Hijack, but viewers keep watching. On March 11, FlixPatrol placed Hijack at #2 worldwide on Apple TV, behind Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. In the U.K. streaming chart aggregation, it also ranked as the top Apple TV series within the broader market snapshot.

Season 2 debuted in January 2026 and moves the action from a hijacked plane to a crisis on Berlin’s underground rail system. Idris Elba returns as Sam Nelson, joined by Christine Adams, Max Beesley and Archie Panjabi as part of the continuing story. Elba admitted it was truly a challenge to keep the tension up after changing the setting from a plane to a subway car.

“We wanted to find a way to keep the core tension, the claustrophobia. How do we do that? How do we keep the motion and the setup from the first season and make it make sense for the second? We landed on a train. It offers a lot of the same attributes. Then the question became how to build a story that connects logically from season one.

United Kingdom, Berlin

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