SERIES PREMIERE: This new miniseries is the brightest feather in Peacock’s plumage: A drama about spycraft and modern technology that takes the capabilities of “deep fake” videos and applies them to a hypothetical yet entirely credible story about international espionage and high-stakes politics. Holliday Grainger stars as a British intelligence agency looking into the case of a British soldier (played by Callum Turner), recently exonerated of war crimes and freed from prison, placed back in custody and suspected of murder. accused in a suspected murder case. Eventually, the narrative of The Capture proves unsettlingly unreliable, and asks all the right questions: When you can no longer believe your eyes when looking at video footage, what does that do to the courts, and to the world? I haven’t stopped thinking about this drama since I previewed it. You won’t, either. Familiar supporting players, though they arrive later in the miniseries, include Ron Perlman and Famke Janssen. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

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