Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Catherine Ravenscroft has spent her career exposing the secrets of powerful institutions; this limited series turns that same unflinching gaze back on her own past.
What is Disclaimer about?
Catherine is a respected documentary journalist whose reputation rests on holding others accountable for things they'd rather keep buried. That reputation starts to crack when a manuscript arrives at her door — a novel that reads less like fiction and more like an accusation, retelling a chapter of her life she has never spoken about. As the pages circulate among people close to her, including her husband and son, Catherine has to decide whether to confront the story head-on or let silence keep doing the damage silence has always done. The series moves between the present, where her carefully built life starts to wobble, and a past trip that the manuscript claims to describe in devastating detail, letting the audience sit with the gap between what's alleged and what actually happened. It's a story about who gets to control a narrative once it leaves their hands, and about the cost of a truth that arrives decades late and addressed to exactly the wrong person.
Cast & crew
Cate Blanchett anchors the series as Catherine with a performance that keeps composure and dread in the same frame, while Kevin Kline and Sacha Baron Cohen bring weight to the people orbiting her unraveling.
Context & significance
Adapted from Renée Knight's novel by Alfonso Cuarón in his first major television project, the series carries the same patient, image-driven storytelling that marked his feature work, favoring slow reveals over exposition and letting silence carry as much weight as dialogue.
Where & how to watch
Disclaimer streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and subtitles, in a Farsi interface designed for the Iranian diaspora. Watching requires a free K-Time account login, and this page itself is free to read.