You don't have to understand something to like it

The headline refers to the terrific 8-episode series "The Copenhagen Test," currently streaming on Peacock.

It's a shadows and mirrors sort of spy thriller where no one is who they seem until they peel off yet another layer of deception.

And even then you're not sure.

But that's OK, because the actors and stylishness of the production and plausibly bleeding edge technologies featured are in and of themselves highly watchable and interesting.

It's a variation on Gilbert & Sullivan's 

        Things are seldom what they seem/ Skim milk masquerades as cream.

from H. M.S. Pinafore — except with guns.

It's so good that I couldn't stop watching after Episodes 4 & 5 even though it was getting late (10:30 pm) so I watched Episode 6, so very exciting and ending way past my bedtime — but I realized I wouldn't get to sleep while wondering what happened next so I capitulated and watched 7 & 8.

One more thing: even though I'm paying for Peacock Premium, some movies and shows — like this one — have commercials.

Each 50 minutes-or-so long episode is preceded by a 15-seconds-long commercial and interrupted by five more, ranging from 30 to 90 seconds long, every 8-10 minutes.

I didn't much mind them, perhaps because commercials are so unusual now in streaming video but more importantly because there's a countdown timer in a corner of the screen so I can try to perfectly synchronize the commercials' end to turning off the "Mute" function.