Hulu premiered Furious on Monday, and the furious Hulu cast puts Emmy Rossum at the center as FBI Agent Alice Black. The series arrives as a crime thriller built around trafficking, abuse, and wealthy power players, with Elizabeth Meriwether steering the adaptation from Black Widow.
Rossum plays Alice Black, an FBI agent who sees a pattern in the murders and recognizes a kindred spirit. She is also carrying her own damage: Alice cannot take showers without falling apart, and the role ties her to an abusive boyfriend from her time with the NYPD. That kind of detail gives the series a procedural spine instead of a generic revenge setup.
Elizabeth Meriwether and Black Widow
Furious is loosely based on the 1987 movie Black Widow, which gives the new series a familiar shape but a darker operating system. Catherine, played by Lola Petticrew, kills by injecting victims with an immobilizing drug before depriving them of food and water, and the targets are rich, spoiled men of New York privilege.
Those men are not random victims. They were all complicit in the trafficking of Catherine as a teen, and their circle links back to the powerful billionaire Jay Easton, played by Peter McRobbie. The setup shifts the show from a simple manhunt into a chain of liability, where private wealth and old abuse sit at the center of the crime story.
Jay Easton and Hope Davis
Jay Easton is enabled by his adult daughter, played by Hope Davis, which turns the billionaire household into part of the machinery rather than just a backdrop. Rob Delaney also appears as one of Catherine’s victims, adding another body to the series’ count of privilege meeting violence.
Scoot McNairy plays a police colleague who has not turned his back on Alice, and that choice keeps the show from isolating her completely inside the FBI. The writing has a clean, ugly logic: the murders matter because they point back to men who helped build the abuse that produced Catherine in the first place.
Alice Black in New York
The new Hulu title works best when it refuses to treat the killer as the whole story. The review frames it as a crime story for the Epstein age, and that framing fits because the real subject is cycles of power and abuse, not just the mechanics of a serial case.
For viewers, the practical value is simple: Furious is not a light procedural, and Alice Black is not written as a cleanly armored investigator. The show leans on one woman’s broken routine, one billionaire family, and one trafficking history to ask how many people have to look away before a murder becomes a system.
