If you're craving feel-good TV, Peacock's original streaming options won't make you particularly happy. From the synthetic sterility of Brave New World to the latest attempt to market Ryan Lochte as a likeable television personality, NBC-Universal's new platform has gone all-in on dystopia.
Probably the best, and certainly the most thoughtful, of the initial Peacock offerings is The Capture, which premiered on BBC One last fall.
It's a twisty journey that starts as a grounded exploration of the Panopticon-esque paranoia of the British surveillance state.
That it eventually becomes something convoluted and vaguely silly is a disappointment, but the six hour-long episodes at least kept me curious throughout.
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