Furious TV series began on Disney+ on Monday, 27 July, with Emmy Rossum as junior FBI agent Alice Black and Lola Petticrew as Catherine, a serial killer. The launch gives Disney+ a female-led detective drama that puts the chase, not the usual victim template, at the center.
Alice Black and Catherine
The story is built around Alice Black and Catherine, two women with traumatic pasts who are pulled into a cat-and-mouse structure. Catherine kills male victims with calculated sadism, while Black’s work starts from the wreckage of a police career she left after never making a formal complaint against her abusive ex-partner from the NYPD.
That setup gives the series its edge. The show is interested in women’s agency and in how wealthy men buy legal immunity, which makes the launch feel less like a standard serial-killer rollout and more like a deliberate correction to a genre that too often treats female bodies as scenery.
Quincy Tyler Bernstine and Nora
Quincy Tyler Bernstine plays Nora in the FBI sex-crimes squad, and she gives the series its hard operational detail. Nora says trafficking charges are hard to make stick because female witnesses are vulnerable, and she tells Black, "Do you hate yourself?" at their first meeting.
Her most searing moment comes in the locked room where she watches child sexual abuse images, a place she compares to "the entrance of Hades." That image does more than darken the tone; it shows how the work inside the FBI sex-crimes squad is staged as confinement, routine exposure, and emotional corrosion rather than procedural polish.
Jake Lacy and Danny
Jake Lacy plays Black’s abusive ex-partner from the NYPD, and Scoot McNairy plays Danny, her former partner and work partner. The half of the series that has been watched contains perhaps two men who are not at best chauvinists and often coercive hypocrites, which keeps the drama from flattening into a simple hero-villain line.
That imbalance is the point. Furious is set up as a detective series, but its business is power: who gets believed, who gets protected, and who is forced to keep working inside systems that already failed them.
For viewers deciding whether to start now, the answer is straightforward: this is a launch built around Alice Black and Catherine, with Nora in the FBI sex-crimes squad adding the institutional pressure. The current run raises the open question the show itself has not answered yet — how many episodes Furious has and whether it continues beyond this run.
