‘The Capture’ Creator Answers Our Burning Season 3 Questions

One of the most unique near-future set techno-horror series currently streaming, The Capture is one of those shows that started as a fictional idea, only to be overtaken by our current dystopian reality. “When we first started, I didn’t even know the term ‘deep fake,’” series creator Ben Chanan confesses. “Then the term started to be banded around while we were making Season 1, so I started retroactively putting it into the script.”

Trying not to outpace what had become a real technological boogie man by the time Season 1 premiered on Peacock in mid-2020 turned out to be one of the show’s biggest challenges, and was part of the reason the show took an almost four-year hiatus between the debuts of Season 2 in late 2022 and the arrival of Season 3 in mid-2026. “I was waiting for technology to catch up with the show; we took it quite far in Season 2,” Chanan said. “It took me a while for the story to click into place, and that’s partly because we were slightly ahead of the curve, and so you kind of have to wait for the curve to catch up.”

“Season 3, or at least part of it, is about what it would look like if someone tried to battle against Correction, how you would get deep-fake proof cameras. That’s surely the next step; if you can’t believe anything recorded on video, how are we going to verify what’s real and what’s not in a way that works for the media, the courts, the police, for everyone?” Chanan explained. “It starts with our lead detective, Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger), who has (or she thinks she has) come up with a way to determine truth.”

(Warning: Spoilers for The Capture Season 3 follow.)