Furious

“Unafraid to venture to extreme places and armed with an awareness of the absurdity of extreme wickedness, this seems at times like revenge drama in the best traditions of Jacobean masters like Kyd and Middleton. Even a vaguely comic scene where a key witness, a teenage boy flashed by Catherine while he was smoking pot on his porch, is unsettling. He tells Alice about the difference between a vulva and a vagina, and we realise that he is actually mansplaining this subject to a woman. In the context of this show, he is a typical, if less dangerous, bloke. So yes. An uncomfortable watch for us men. But such is this drama’s relentless, mesmerising power, it is impossible to avert your gaze.”
Ben Dowell, The Times

“With Furious, I think we might be seeing the birth of a new subgenre of television drama; call it the Epstein thriller. Pre-him, the files and revelations about the depth and breadth of his network of suppliers, enablers and willing (rich, male) participants, we might have thought the plot of Furious preposterous, sitting uneasily with the series’ grimly realistic tone and emotional palette. Now it is an organic, seamless, horrifying whole that asks how individuals survive such predators and how society survives such knowledge. And when we are going to become furious enough to do something to make a difference.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian