Emmy Rossum Stars in Hulu's 'Furious' as FBI Agent Hunting Serial
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- Emmy Rossum stars as FBI newbie Alice Black in Hulu's eight-episode crime thriller 'Furious,' hunting a female serial killer played by Lola Petticrew who targets wealthy Jeffrey Epstein-like predators in New York City.
- Elizabeth Meriwether ('Dying for Sex,' 'The Dropout') serves as series creator and showrunner, with Karina Evans directing and supporting cast including Scoot McNairy, Jake Lacey, and Quincy Tyler Bernstine.
- Rossum brought the concept to Hulu after watching the 1987 film 'Black Widow' starring Debra Winger, and said the show is ultimately interested in 'survivors of violence and what violence does to a person.'
- The title references the Furies (Alecto, Megaera, Tisiphone) from Greek mythology — three female goddesses of vengeance — reflecting the show's theme of rage at a system that 'has let so many people down.'
- Rossum drew on a deeply personal experience — flying to Oklahoma to meet her dying grandmother for the first time while shooting 'Shameless' — to inform a brutal scene where Alice visits her abusive ex-boyfriend's dying mother, losing herself so completely she had to be seated after the take.
- Alice is depicted as not bathing for days because showers trigger memories of her ex's violence, and as seeking out men on dating apps to physically fight before sex — a scene Rossum said required working with a psychologist to process.
- The first three episodes of 'Furious' are available to stream on Hulu, with Rossum noting: 'you don't want to root for [the killer], and yet maybe she's got a point.'
Why it matters: By centering a serial killer who targets the kind of powerful predators exposed in the Epstein case, 'Furious' stakes out provocative moral terrain — a sympathetic antagonist whose victims are themselves abusers — that could test audience appetite for vengeance-as-justice narratives in the streaming marketplace.
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