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While we wait ever so patiently to see Simu Liu finally return as Shang-Chi in Avengers: Doomsday, we have the star highlighting his own espionage thriller in the meantime. Liu is up against the wall as his mind is hacked by unknown, nefarious forces and the race to save his identity and the country is on as the trailer has just dropped for the pulsating new Peacock action-thriller series!
This espionage thriller series follows first-generation Chinese-American intelligence analyst Alexander Hale (Simu Liu), who realizes his brain has been hacked, giving the perpetrators access to everything he sees and hears. Caught between his shadowy agency and the unknown hackers, he must maintain a performance 24/7 to flush out who’s responsible and prove where his allegiance lies.
Liu stars along with a great supporting cast including Melissa Barrera (In the Heights, Scream V and VI), Sinclair Daniel (The Other Black Girl, Insidious: The Red Door), Brian d’Arcy James (Spotlight, 13 Reasons Why), Mark O’Brien (City on a Hill, Ready or Not) and Kathleen Chalfant (Wit, The Affair). Thomas Brandon (Legacies) is wearing multiple hats on this one serving as creator, co-showrunner and writer together with Jennifer Yale (See, Outlander) who is also co-showrunner, writer, and an executive producer.
From the trailer that dropped today, I was immediately drawn in, and Liu has leading man chops in both the action and dramatic aspects of the series and he certainly oozes with charisma and likability. My only hesitation is getting into another espionage thriller series after a few other shows that I had become invested in were unceremoniously canceled after only one season. These two shows were Countdown with Jensen Ackles and Butterfly with Daniel Dae Kim. Both Prime shows showed massive promise and just like with so many series I grew to love throughout the decades, they were not given enough time to stretch their legs and see what they could really accomplish. Will The Copenhagen Test suffer the same fate, or will Peacock actually let audiences become acquainted with it? We shall see but to say I am skittish at this point is a severe understatement.
The Copenhagen Test will hit Peacock on December 27, 2025, with all episodes dropping at once!
