Everything To Know About The Copenhagen Test, Peacock's New Espionage Thriller
Here are all the details on the new series starring Simu Liu and Melissa Barrera.
It can't be easy knowing that every single thing you see and hear is being transmitted to an unknown group of people.
That's the harrowing position Simu Liu's character, Alexander Hale, is faced with in Peacock's new espionage thriller, The Copenhagen Test.
"How long have you willingly been committing treason against the United States government?" Adina Porter's Marlowe asks a confused Alexander in one scene shown in a new trailer for the series. "You're the mole, Alexander. Someone's been watching and listening through you."
When Alexander still can't grasp that this nightmare scenario is real and how it's possible, Marlowe explains, "That's a Wi-Fi signal streaming from your head. You were hacked."
Brian d’Arcy James' character Peter Moira, who, like Marlowe, also works for the American intelligence agency that Alexander does, further fills him in with, "We can either attempt to remove what's in your brain..."
Catching on, Alexander replies, "Or we keep the hack open." Peter confirms that that's what they have in mind, setting up the series' intriguing plot of getting to the bottom of who's behind the hack and who Alexander can trust.
Melissa Barrera, best known for starring in a couple of the Scream slasher films, plays a love interest for Alexander in The Copenhagen Test — or someone who Alexander's agency hired to pretend to be a love interest.
As seen in the trailer, Barrera's Michelle tells Alexander, "They want me to play the girlfriend."
Alexander replies, "Or you're just keeping an eye on me."
Either way, things are about to get really complicated.
"We either save the mission, or save his life," Michelle says about Alexander in another scene.
When does The Copenhagen Test premiere?
The Copenhagen Test is a binge drop, with all eight episodes landing on Peacock on Saturday, December 27, 2025.
What is Peacock's The Copenhagen Test about?
According to the official synopsis, "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."
Who is in the cast of The Copenhagen Test?
Series regulars include Simu Liu (Barbie, Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), 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 (off-Broadway's Wit, The Affair).
Liu is also an executive producer of The Copenhagen Test.
Thomas Brandon (Legacies) and Jennifer Yale (See, Outlander) are showrunners and executive producers. Brandon is also a creator of the series, and Yale is a writer.
Other executive producers include James Wan (The Conjuring Universe, M3GAN), Michael Clear (Archive 81, M3GAN), and Rob Hackett (Archive 81, I Know What You Did Last Summer) for Atomic Monster, Mark Winemaker, and Jet Wilkinson, who also directs the first two episodes.
