User Reviews

Brilliantly directed. Actors on point. Nearly everything on point. What an episode, truly thought provoking and honestly a thrilling episode. Sets up the whole series perfectly and looks very very promising and so far looks a whole step up from the previous series which too was very good.. Smooth flowing, pacy, and keeps the viewer extremely into it.

Not sure about whether its all actually possible, but its made for excellent television anyway. Either way, its a refreshing concept for a drama from BBC and will no doubt attract many people to watch it. Brilliant stuff.

Definitely a must watch drama and this series could be VERY VERY good.

I didn't see the first series, this compelling, slick, prescient opener to Series two implies I missed something good. Ben Chanan's writing and direction is unusually concise and lucid, no significant flashbacks or meandering about the bush, what is more, each character speaks clearly, instead of frequently inaudible dialogue that besets some dramas, possibly inspired by Silent Movie.

And the theme - surveillance, by whom, for whom and controlled by whom is topical. You could almost call it Dr Whom.

The performances are all of a high standard, Holliday Grainger is particularly plausible and the internal monitoring of her flat, despite her regularly using the old trick of a hair on the entrance to ensure no one has entered, is extremely creepy. I don't have surveillance equipment in my home, but after this episode, I started looking at the cat suspiciously.

I'll be watching the rest of the series; I just hope it's not watching me.

A really enjoyable well paced episode to launch the second series. I may have missed something but when the Scenes of Crime Officer was collecting evidence at the shooting he shows the Investigating Officer the bullet that killed the victim stating it was a shot to the eye. Surely the bullet would have been retrieved from the victim by the Pathologist at the Post Mortem examination and not by the SOCO at the scene? The dialogue is clear and audible throughout and the plot development is well structured with the interaction between the different characters adding to the tension that builds. All in all a great watch and as another reviewer has observed I hope it isn't watching me.

A Chinese national stating in London is killed at the same time they The Chinese are trying to sell AI identification tech to The UK Government.

I was worried that I wouldn't remember much about it, but the recap was very beneficial. It brought if all back, and though the same main characters appear, prior knowledge wasn't vital.

I'll say it, perhaps the drama of 2022 so far, this was an awesome first episode, I loved it, an exciting, lightning paced thrill ride. Hugely entertaining, and not afraid to throw in all manner of shocks and surprises too.

Paapa Essiedu was just awesome as Isaac, a truly brilliant performance. I liked the dynamic between Grainger and Lia Williams too.

I loved the music, throughout, it's been one of the first things I've seen in a while, where the music added something, rather than feeling intrusive and overdone.

Let's hope the series continues like this, this first episode was awesome, 10/10.

Obviously, I don't want to give anything away but the end of this episode was very unexpected. The build up leads you one place and the reveal is somewhere else entirely. This is very clever and frightening stuff. One day this might even be possible or, maybe, it already is in which case we're doomed. What's great about this is there are no ridiculous CGI shots but just visual suggestions of what might be possible and what kind of an insane world we'd have to live in if any of it were true.

So far, so good. I hope things don't drop off after this excellent start to this interesting second series.

Gosh was it really 2019 when the first series was shown. Helpfully there is a recap before the start.

The story is different with a new central character. Security minister Isaac Turner MP (Paapa Essiedu) who has issues with a new surveillance system from a private Chinese company that they want to sell to the government.

Only Turner realises that with Chinese involvement will include their government having access.

DCI Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger) is drawn in when a murder investigated by DI Latif and DS Flynn leads to an invisible man.

There is video manipulation going on. All roads leads to China.

The first episode has Carey being marginalised in her new job. It was a good episode as it set things up. I do suspect the rest of the series will be a wild ride.

Turner who maybe should had been more diplomatic with the Chinese. He should had known that they might not take no for an answer.

Was this made by the same people as the first series? I don't normally watch shows from the BBC (with good reason), but I thought series 1 of The Capture was great. It was a gripping detective/conspiracy story with good acting and a fantastic plot, which was told in an intriguing way - keeping just the right amount from the viewer. I gave it 7/10.

I couldn't get past the first 15 minutes of the first episode of series 2. Awful casting, detestable characters, and no attempt at telling a story.

The new characters were bad enough, but the existing characters all seemed to have a personality transplant. Anything to push the agenda rather than tell an interesting story. I'm out... Maybe it will get better, but if those are your first 15 minutes then I can't watch this.

Apparently the second series has a 100% approval rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes already, so that tells you everything you need to know. It's a shame because I enjoyed the first series, but evidently its popularity has made it into just another platform to push the same things that are in every show now.