Hostage is a tense five-part Netflix political thriller created by Matt Charman, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Bridge of Spies, that pits two of Europe's most commanding actresses against each other at the highest levels of power. The series imagines a nightmare of statecraft in which personal and national crises collide, forcing two leaders who instinctively distrust one another into an uneasy alliance under impossible pressure.

Suranne Jones stars as Abigail Dalton, the newly installed British prime minister, whose doctor husband is abducted while on a humanitarian mission abroad — just as she is hosting a fraught state visit. Julie Delpy plays Vivienne Toussaint, the steely French president, who arrives with an agenda of her own and soon finds herself the target of a blackmail plot. As the two women are drawn into a single, escalating conspiracy, each must weigh the life of someone they love against the duties of their office.

Debuting in August 2025, Hostage shot to the top of Netflix's global charts, powered by the marquee pairing of Jones and Delpy even as critics were divided on its familiar genre machinery. A propulsive, high-stakes political thriller built for bingeing, Hostage is streaming on Netflix.