Heist and hostage thrillers seem better suited to feature-length films due to their tight, high-stakes pacing — as demonstrated by Phone Booth, The Negotiator, Die Hard, and Inside Man. However, television can sustain tension using clever time jumps, a technique 24 famously perfected with its “real-time” narrative, or by unraveling the same event from multiple perspectives, as seen in Paramount+’s upcoming series. The streamer recently dropped first-look photos that include an eerie glimpse of a mysterious antagonist.

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