The Capture season 2 review: Paranoid thriller loses it at invisible assassins-Keith Watson-Entertainment – Metro

DCI Rachel Carey (Holiday Grainger) is back (Picture: BBC/Heyday/NBC Universal)

It’s been three years since the first series of conspiracy theory thriller The Capture put the wind up us with its faked footage storyline that cruised ahead of the curve when it came to showing how tech terrorists had the potential to twist and trick the truth.

So there was a lot of catching up to do as DCI Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger, in a permanent state of bafflement) once again prepared to have her mind boggled in a world where what you see is not at all what you get.

After all, how could a Chinese dissident really be terminated by invisible assassins?

Put like that, it doesn’t make any kind of logical sense and there’s a fair amount of disbelief to be suspended if you’re to be captured by The Capture’s paranoid embrace.

Papaa Esseidu plays securities minister Isaac Turner (Picture: BBC/Heyday/NBC Universal)

There’s a little too much suspension of belief required (Picture: BBC/Heyday/NBC Universal)

Writer Ben Chanan has tried to raise the bar from the excellent first series by expanding the circle of conspirators manipulating the truth via faked images to include, well, pretty much everyone. But in doing so he’s stretched credibility to breaking point.

At the centre of the storm is securities minister Isaac (Paapa Essiedu), an ambitious politician understandably appalled when his words are twisted to say the exact opposite of what he believes.

Exactly how this is done is left a little blurry but go with that flow if you can because The Capture does paint a convincing picture of how compromised any notion of the truth has become when it comes to talking politics.

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The idea that governments around the world are playing diplomatic chess with a game called Correction – it would have been called Propaganda back in the day – is where The Capture scores its points.

Where it jumps the shark is going all sci-fi action thriller and having killers pop up out of apparently nowhere.

I’m as paranoid as the next 21st century apocalyptic, but even I draw the line at invisible assassins. At least I think I do.

The Capture S2 starts on BBC1 this Sunday at 9pm.

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