'The Capture' Season 3 First Images Bring Back a Surprising Face
The first images are out for 'The Capture' Season 3, and there's at least one returnee we didn't expect.
It is an absolute shame that Peacock doesn't seem to know how to market a British drama. Other than The Day of the Jackal, which was a hit despite Peacock's undermarketing, it has several hidden deep in its archives that most Americans have never seen. Vigil, for example, is the Suranne Jones-Rose Leslie series that would have been a hit on just about any other platform. The Undeclared War, a show with an all-star cast led by Mark Rylance, also did well in the U.K. and flopped completely over here.
But the biggest crime against television is that the first two seasons of The Capture are still trapped on Peacock, and the third is heading to the BBC in early 2026, with zero fanfare on this side of the pond. The series, which is quite possibly the most realistically terrifying near-future techno-horror of the 2020s, takes the concept of the deep-fake video and teases out the logical endpoint of how governments will use and abuse such things.
The first season introduced DI Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger), who accidentally stumbles into the use of deep-faking videos by the U.K. Anti-Terrorism unit known as SO13, as she investigates a soldier (Callum Turner), who is arrested for sexually assaulting his lawyer the evening after his controversial acquittal on war crimes charges. The video shows the attack, except that nothing of the sort actually happened. Turns out the entire thing was a fabrication using this technology, which the government has snazzily renamed "Correction."
