Times (UK) August 29, 2022 The Capture is the best drama on TV now.
Daily Mail (UK) September 10, 2019 As continued by Davies, the characters quickly lose their way, and are Austen-like (or 'lite') without ever feeling Austen proper. Or, if you prefe...
The Guardian September 4, 2019 The question of what she has seen is the carrot that dangles before us, pulling us through the rest of an hour that without it would threaten to be...
It’s gripping up to a point, but really it’s just you staring at a screen while watching another person staring at a screen.
TIME Magazine July 16, 2020 This is the rare thriller that is not just smart and gripping, but also deeply engaged with our bizarre, often terrifying present. And it’s e...
Financial Times September 4, 2019 It is a rather tired idea, thankfully downplayed against the far more exciting backdrop of digital jiggery-pokery and layers of subterfuge, wi...
Times (UK) September 5, 2019 So far the first episode has done enough to suggest a decent midweek shaggy-dog story for back-to-school season.
Globe and Mail April 13, 2020 In the end, as an intricately woven plot – often thrillingly anchored in the issue of constant surveillance – moves toward its final reve...
Independent August 29, 2022 At its best, The Capture feels like the closest thing Britain has to Homeland.
Vanity Fair July 15, 2020 We’ve seen plenty of this jittery, "how deep does thing go" investigation before. But The Capture at least adds a bit of newness in the way i...
Independent September 4, 2019 An intriguing, but rather flawed sort of Big Brother thriller set in our contemporary world of digital snooping, near constant surveillance and (a...
Daily Telegraph September 4, 2019 The Capture isn’t the first drama to make images its primary currency – from Enemy of the State (1998) back to Blow Up (1966), the genre...
Interesting looking and provocative in its themes, Brave New World starts out with considerable promise and doesn’t end nearly as well; still...
Boston Globe August 14, 2020 The Capture is frightening, a little brainy, and damning of those who refuse to recognize deepfakery for the crisis it has become.
By the end, with wheels within wheels beginning to spin, things are set up nicely.
With strong performances and an unabashed willingness to state its points plainly, The Capture suggests solid possibilities for Peacock as a s...
The series sucks the juice out of its pop-cultural reference points, failing to mine our current nightmares on its own terms.
Times (UK) August 29, 2022 As much a contemporary interpretation of The Invisible Man as it is a dramatisation of surveillance paranoia, where reality is edited in real...
Times (UK) September 2, 2022 The brilliance of The Capture is that it is at once extremely silly and entirely plausible.
What starts out looking like a punchy female-driven crime drama in which a cocky young detective stands to learn about being a woman in the "j...
Times (UK) August 29, 2022 Ben Chanan’s dialogue was quick on its feet and clever…
Daily Telegraph August 29, 2022 The Capture begins with a cracking sequence and ends with another one, and what happens in between isn’t half bad either. Which isn’t somethin...
This is a great-looking, well-paced, timely thriller, with excellent work by Turner, Haddock and Grainger, and scene-grabbing supporting work...
Paste Magazine July 16, 2020 This thoughtful but still thrilling series is a worthwhile watch that may leave you a little shaken, wanting to make sure your computer camera...
Financial Times August 29, 2022 The Capture illustrates how much can be forgiven when a show is underpinned by an intelligently crafted story.
It doesn’t necessarily try to copy Bodyguard, but I think has definitely got that Bodyguard-type-vibe. So if you’re a fan of that...