Peacock’s free tier lets users stream certain episodes with no subscription cost, but most full seasons require Peacock Premium. But this month, the streamer is giving free access to a new Original series every week. Peacock’s weekly “Freeview” begins December 10 with critically acclaimed conspiracy thriller, The Capture, a BBC original.
Here’s Peacock’s Weekly Freeview Schedule
Dec. 10-16
The Capture
When soldier Shaun Emery’s conviction for a murder in Afghanistan is overturned due to flawed video evidence, he returns to life as a free man with his young daughter. But as damning CCTV footage from a night out in London comes to light, Shaun’s life takes a shocking turn and he must soon fight for his freedom once more. Detective Inspector Rachel Carey is drafted to investigate Shaun’s case, but she quickly learns that disentangling misinformation from truth can sometimes be a matter of perspective. In a post-truth era of deep fakes, alternative facts and ubiquitous surveillance, seeing is deceiving; told through the lens of the intelligence community’s extraordinary oversight capability, this conspiracy thriller troubles the timely question of whether we can really believe our eyes.
Dec. 17-23
Five Bedrooms
Tired of their perpetual single status, five friends at very different stages of their lives make the bold decision to pool their funds and buy a house together. What comes next is a tale of commitment and its consequences, with good measures of love and heartbreak expected as part of such an intricate partnership. An array of socioeconomic, cultural and personal differences quickly gets exposed as Liz, Ben, Heather, Ainsley and Harry see each other’s true colors. The journey of this unique, makeshift family culminates with the friends weighing whether to place the house back on the market or double down on their life-changing decision
Dec. 24-30
Brave New World
In an idyllic utopia whose peace and stability hinge upon control of monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself, everyone belongs to everyone else. Conditioned from birth at the Hatchery, residents of New London are assigned a letter of the Greek alphabet and relegated to predetermined life roles in accordance with expectations for their bio-engineered caste. As members of society’s upper echelons and those on the marginalized fringes begin to question the so-called faultless rules of their reality, perfection gets flipped on its head. Based on Aldous Huxley’s prophetic 1932 novel, this genre-bending, science-fiction and fantasy drama imagines a world steeped in holographic pleasure, with hedonistic values re-branded as selflessness for the good of the collective. In a pressure cooker of norms both strait-jacketed and freewheeling, humanity is on a collision course with forbidden love and revolutionary uprising.