After the tender, profane pleasures of “Dying For Sex,” Elizabeth Meriwether is moving into darker, more procedural territory. Hulu has released the first look at “Furious,” a new original thriller starring Emmy Rossum as an FBI agent pursuing a mysterious female serial killer.
The series premieres July 27 with three episodes on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers in the U.S., and on Disney+ internationally. New episodes will stream on Mondays, with the season finale set for August 31.
“Furious” follows Alice Black, an FBI agent played by Rossum, as she hunts a calculating killer whose motives and methods begin to pull both women into a dangerous psychological orbit. According to the official logline, both characters are walking their own paths toward justice, but as their lives start to intertwine, “the line between right and wrong begins to blur.”
The cast also includes Lola Petticrew, Scoot McNairy, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, and Jake Lacy.
The project has already had a few lives. Last year, The Playlist exclusively reported that Amanda Seyfried was loosely involved with the project, then known as “Black Window,” a thriller series from Meriwether loosely inspired by the 1987 neo-noir “Black Widow,” directed by Bob Rafelson and starring Debra Winger and Theresa Russell. At the time, Seyfried described the project as a genre shift for her and Meriwether following their work on “The Dropout,” though she also cautioned that the series was still in the works and that nothing was official.
Scheduling was ultimately an issue, Merriwether told us herself in a separate interview, and the final version now arrives with Rossum, both starring and executive producing through Composition 8. Meriwether created, wrote, and executive-produced the series, with Rossum executive-producing alongside Ronald Bass, Matt Olmstead, and Sam Hoffman. Brian Kirk executive-produced and directed the first two episodes. The series is produced by 20th Television and Searchlight Television.
Meriwether has long been associated with emotionally sharp, character-driven comedy, from “New Girl” to the recent “Dying For Sex,” but “Furious” looks like a more severe pivot: a cat-and-mouse crime story centered on women shaped by violence, obsession, and competing ideas of justice.
“Furious” premieres July 27 on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers in the U.S., and on Disney+ internationally.
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