Hulu’s ‘Furious’: Release Date, Plot, Cast and Everything Else You Need to Know Before Emmy Rossum’s Serial Killer Thriller Premieres

Hulu is about to unleash one of its most anticipated summer dramas, and the wait is almost over. ‘Furious’ brings Emmy Rossum back to prestige television in a role that sounds tailor made for awards buzz, and fans of twisty psychological thrillers have plenty of reasons to clear their Monday nights.

The series arrives with a premise that immediately separates itself from the usual crime procedural formula, and the timing could not be better for anyone missing that cat and mouse tension from other streaming hits.

‘Furious’ Release Date and Schedule

Emmy Rossum and Lola Petticrew star in this cat-and-mouse thriller, with the first three episodes streaming July 27 on Hulu and Hulu on Disney Plus. That means viewers get an immediate binge option before the show settles into its regular rhythm.

New episodes will then stream every Monday, with the season finale scheduled for August 31. The show has eight episodes planned in total for its first season.

The series will be available on Hulu and Hulu on Disney Plus for subscribers in the United States, while international viewers can catch it on Disney Plus. That distribution setup mirrors how Hulu has handled several of its other high profile original dramas in recent years.

The cast and crew also held a New York premiere event on July 16, with everyone walking the red carpet in Lower Manhattan ahead of the streaming debut. It is the kind of rollout that signals a studio confident in what it has made.

‘Furious’ Plot and Story Details

Justice means different things to different people in this drama full of trauma and vengeance, which follows FBI agent Alice Black as she hunts a calculating female serial killer. The premise plays with morality in a way that feels distinctly modern.

Alice is a homicide detective turned operator who gets pulled into investigating the murder of a wealthy man, only to realize the crime connects to a case she handled a year earlier. That connection sends her down a path she cannot easily walk back from.

The prime suspect in both cases is Catherine, a young woman who had dated both victims before their deaths, and who uses a mask to avoid security cameras while relying on her unassuming appearance to get close to her targets before drugging and interrogating them. It is a chilling method that makes her one of the more unsettling antagonists in recent streaming memory.

Both women walk their own paths toward justice, and as their lives start to intertwine, the line between right and wrong begins to blur. Hulu is framing the show less as a straight procedural and more as a psychological character study, which pushes it closer to the tone of Netflix’s ‘You’ than the original film it draws from.

‘Furious’ Cast of Characters

Emmy Rossum leads as Alice Black, an FBI agent with personal struggles who becomes obsessed with catching the killer she is chasing. Lola Petticrew plays Catherine, the mysterious woman at the center of the investigation.

Scoot McNairy plays Danny, described as Alice’s friend and a police officer who helps on the case, while Quincy Tyler Bernstine plays Nora, a fellow FBI agent working alongside Alice. Jake Lacy rounds out the main cast as Marshall, a police officer who had a past relationship with Alice.

Rossum spent time shadowing real FBI agents and NYPD detectives while preparing for the role. That kind of hands on research often shows up in the small procedural details that genre fans tend to notice first.

‘Furious’ Origins and Creative Team

‘Furious’ is based on the 1987 film ‘Black Widow’, which was written by Ronald Bass. The series was created by Elizabeth Meriwether, who is best known for ‘New Girl’ and ‘The Dropout’.

The idea for adapting that decades old thriller into a modern series came from a very specific creative spark. Meriwether has said the question of what would lead a woman to become a serial killer was what sparked the idea for ‘Furious’ after she watched ‘Black Widow’, a detail she shared with Entertainment Weekly.

Meriwether, Rossum, and Bass all serve as executive producers alongside Sara Moskowitz, Matt Olmstead, Sam Hoffman, and Brian Kirk. Brian Kirk also directed the first two episodes of the series. Early reviews have already praised the performances, calling the show an unflinchingly raw crime thriller and highlighting extraordinary work from both Rossum and Petticrew as the women on either side of the investigation.

With eight episodes, a starry cast, and a premise built to make viewers question who the real predator is, ‘Furious’ looks primed to become one of the summer’s most talked about new dramas. Do you think Alice will end up more like the killer she is chasing than she ever expected, and who are you rooting for when the first episodes drop this Monday?