Netflix Quietly Dropped a True-Crime Thriller So Tense Viewers Are Calling It the Ultimate 70s Hostage Saga—And Fans Say They Clicked Play Out of Curiosity and Couldn’t Stop Until the Final Heart-Pounding Frame

The movies have long recognized the eroticism of being held at gunpoint, and Gus Van Sant cheekily toys with this in Dead Man’s Wire. In the opening scene, a scorned entrepreneur, Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård), takes Richard Hall (Dacre Montgomery) hostage, demanding a public apology and five million dollars in compensation from the mortgage company that’s … Read more