The Copenhagen Test's Cast and Melissa Barrera Explain How the Sci-Fi Finale Sets Up Season 2

Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for The Copenhagen Test, Season 1.

If you’re still picking your jaw off the floor after The Copenhagen Test finale, you’re not alone. For as many questions as streaming’s latest sci-fi spy thriller just answered, it also replaced everything we thought we knew with something far worse: certainty. The once theoretical test taken by Simu Liu’s Alexander Hale isn’t just some vague loyalty exercise anymore. By the time we reach the episode’s final moments, we see Alexander and countless others are living with a real-time hack in their heads, courtesy of a living program that is spreading beyond their basic understanding.

With Alexander having the choice of turning his hack on and off, like a switch, it’s the kind of setup that also leaves characters “literally and figuratively” stuck in a cage, as Brian d’Arcy James tells Collider alongside his castmates, Melissa Barrera, Sinclair Daniel, Kathleen Chalfant, and Mark O’Brien, when breaking down the episode’s biggest plot twists. For Barrera, that collapse of certainty and surveillance lands hardest in Michelle’s final moments, especially the subway reunion that recontextualizes her entire relationship with Alexander.

But between the characters’ wanting to escape and the watchful eye of surveillance after their every move, all of that tension ripples outward across the finale, shaping Parker’s promotion, Moira’s offer to Alexander, Michelle’s future, and the uneasy alliances that follow in The Orphanage for Season 2.

The Copenhagen Test is now streaming on Peacock.

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