
The Undeclared War
2022 · TV Series · TV-MA · 47 min · ★ 6.5 · 64% critics
In a near-future Britain heading into a tense general election, analysts inside a top-secret intelligence agency race to stop a major cyber-attack aimed at the country’s voting systems. As pressure mounts, the team must sort signal from noise while political stakes and public unrest threaten to spiral.
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Streaming on Peacock.
5 hours to watch · 6 episodes.
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Details
- Years
- 2022
- Release date
- 2022-06-30
- Network
- Channel 4
- Language
- English
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Runtime
- 47 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 64/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 (72 votes)
About
If you enjoy near-future political thrillers about cyber warfare and election security, this could hook you, especially if you liked Vigil or Secret City; Not for you if you want tight pacing and minimal personal subplots.
Pros: timely cyber-war premise; tense what-if scenario; bingeable momentum | Cons: uneven acting; distracting side stories; tech realism debated
Themes
- politics
- covert operation
- british spy
- computer hacker
Cast & crew

Hannah Khalique-Brown
as Saara Parvan

Simon Pegg
as Danny Patrick

Maisie Richardson-Sellers
as Kathy Freeman

Edward Holcroft
as James Cox

Adrian Lester
as PM Andrew Makinde

Alex Jennings
as David Neal

Hattie Morahan
as Elizabeth Kahn

Ed Stoppard
as Richard Marston

Mark Rylance
as John Yeabsley

Julie Barclay
as Sally J
Directed by Peter Kosminsky
Episodes1 season · 6 episodes
Season 16 episodes
- S1E1Episode 147mPeacockApple TV+
- S1E2Episode 247mPeacockApple TV+
- S1E3Episode 356mPeacockApple TV+
- S1E4Episode 447mPeacockApple TV+
- S1E5Episode 547mPeacockApple TV+
- S1E6Episode 647mPeacockApple TV+