Kiefer Sutherland leads Rabbit Hole, a 2023 American espionage thriller from director Glenn Ficarra that trades car chases for something colder: the slow realization that the people running the surveillance state might be the actual threat.
What is Rabbit Hole about?
John Weir works as a private operative whose job is corporate espionage — planting evidence, manipulating information, tilting outcomes for clients who pay well to stay unseen. He is good at reading a room and better at reading a lie, which makes it worse when he becomes the target of one. A routine job spirals into a frame job, and Weir finds himself accused of a crime tied to a much larger scheme reaching into the machinery that watches everyone. What starts as a professional puzzle turns personal fast, and the season follows him piecing together who set the trap and why, using the same tradecraft he once sold to others.
About the cast
Kiefer Sutherland anchors the series with the weary precision he brought to his best television work, playing a man who trusts systems less with every episode. Charles Dance and Meta Golding round out a cast built for institutional menace — quiet authority that turns unsettling the longer a scene runs. Enid Graham, Walt Klink, and Rob Yang fill out the wider web of operatives and officials Weir has to read carefully, since almost no one in this show is entirely who they first appear to be.
Context & significance
Rabbit Hole arrived as part of a run of American espionage dramas asking what happens when data-gathering tools built for national security get pointed at ordinary lives. Its 2023 setting leans into that anxiety without needing to invent a villain more exotic than the surveillance infrastructure already in place. Eight episodes, a tight 88-minute-average runtime, and a cast led by a genre veteran make it a compact watch for viewers who prefer their conspiracy thrillers dense rather than sprawling.
Watching Rabbit Hole on Ktime
Rabbit Hole streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can follow Weir's unraveling conspiracy in Farsi from the first episode. A free K-Time account is all that's needed to start watching — the platform is built around a Farsi-first interface for Persian-speaking audiences wherever they are, and login is the only step between browsing this page and pressing play.