Peacock Cancels Simu Liu and Melissa Barrera Thriller 'The Copenhagen Test'

This is the end of the road for Alexander Hale and Michelle Cyr. Peacock has canceled The Copenhagen Test after one season. The genre-bending espionage thriller starred Simu Liu and Melissa Barrera as Alexander and Michelle, with an ensemble cast including Brian d'Arcy James as Peter Moira, Sinclair Daniel as Samantha Parker, Mark O'Brien as Edmund Cobb, and Kathleen Chalfant as St. George.

It hailed from creator, writer, and executive producer Thomas Brandon, who also shared showrunning duties with fellow writer and executive producer Jennifer Yale. Liu served as executive producer. Jet Wilkinson helmed the first two episodes, with Kevin Tancharoen directing episodes three and four, Vincenzo Natali directing episodes five and six, and Nima Nourizadeh directing the last two episodes, respectively.

Here's a synopsis per Peacock:

"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."

Variety reports that despite mostly favorable reviews from critics, The Copenhagen Test "failed to find a wide audience." Premiering all eight episodes on Dec. 27, 2025, the series broke into Nielsen's Top 10 Streaming Originals chart for the week of Dec. 29-Jan 4 and totaled 373 million minutes watched. However, it fell out of the top 10 ranking in the weeks that followed.

Both Liu and Barrera are currently on the Great White Way. Liu is starring in Oh, Mary! as Mary's Teacher opposite John Cameron Mitchell. Meanwhile, Barrera stars as Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titaníque opposite John Riddle and Layton Williams.