Although the creator of this series has admitted that the Jeffrey Epstein case was only a mere “backdrop” and that this show was never the story for that, I kinda call bullshit. I mean, you even have the main billionaire antagonist with the same initials and your last episode was called Hart “Island” among other similarities. I don’t think you guys are being as subtle as you think. Anyways, Furious had some okay-ish moments as a show and story. It’s also another one of those where I think the co-star should have gotten the same, if not more, credit than the main star.

Yes, we should absolutely be furious at the fact that young girls are trafficked and forced to perform sexual acts on men triple or quadruple their own age. We should be furious at how so many of these men and enablers get away with it due to their wealth, connections, and membership in the good ol’ boys club. There are a ton of things we’re supposed to be furious about, and likely none more than having an actual woman be the active enabler and protector of these men. I mean, sounds familiar to a real life case, right? Furious stars Emmy Rossum as FBI detective Alice, whose troubled past relationship with another cop in the NYPD has her being ostracized in the department due to the ongoing investigation. In the other corner, we have Lola Petticrew as Catherine, the young woman looking for revenge on those who have wrecked not just her life but that of her best friend as well.

It’s here where I think Catherine outshines Alice. We obviously see Alice as having a dark and troubled past. At times, Alice’s story does seem like a bit of a distraction but does serve to highlight how tough women can have it in a field dominated mainly by males. I had thought they were going to go down the route of showing how Alice would be stumped each step along the way by her superiors simply for being a female, but that really wasn’t it. Catherine’s story, on the other hand, was a bit more interesting, and I think this can also be attributed to Lola’s fantastic acting. Her quest for vengeance, to find out what really happened to her good friend Isabel despite putting herself through so much more anger, pain, and violence, can’t go unnoticed. But far from being an anti-hero, we also see how she can be downright manipulative and kill whomever gets in her way as well.

I can’t forget about Nora. She provided one of the most crucial dialogue early in the show when she was conversing with Alice while in the hospital and mentioned something about how victims of violence can somehow turn out to be the most violent and that their suffering can make them more cold and calculating. Quincy Tyler Bernstine was an excellent cast for Nora’s character. She somehow was able to provide some comedic relief to this dark show as the “tropical shirt” comment scene had me just cracking up along with her back and forth with Ed in the last episode.

In the end, one can go on for a while discussing the injustices portrayed in Furious. It’s another one of those where the abuser gets a medal in the end rather than face any disciplinary action. As to Alice, I’m not sure what will happen in season two now that it has been officially renewed. We see her tracking the number of cases the videos from Jay Easton’s laptop have been linked to, along with how many times they have been downloaded. Oh and of course, we know what she actually did to Jay Easton himself, and liked it. Is this to mean she will become a vigilante next, à la Dexter style, and hunt down the sickos who are still free due to their cases mysteriously getting tossed out or unnoticed, who were in those videos?