Variety's review of Hulu's new crime drama "Furious" finds that the eight-episode series, loosely inspired by the 1987 film "Black Widow," largely succeeds thanks to strong performances despite leaning on familiar trauma-driven storytelling tropes. Created by Elizabeth Meriwether ("New Girl", "The Dropout"), the show reworks its source material significantly, replacing a gold-digging serial killer with a child-trafficking survivor who hunts down her former abusers, one of whom evokes comparisons to the late Jeffrey Epstein.

The cast is led by Emmy Rossum, also an executive producer, as Alice, a rookie FBI agent recently transferred from the NYPD who is escaping an abusive past relationship whilst pursuing Catherine, the vengeful killer played by Lola Petticrew ("Say Nothing"). The review praises Petticrew's intense performance as the show's most captivating element, alongside Quincy Tyler Bernstine as jaded supervisor Nora Washington and Ariel Marx's atmospheric score, even as some of the psychological framing and dialogue can feel heavy-handed as the season progresses.