I asked Furious star Scoot McNairy what TV show fans should stream after binging 'intense' new Hulu and Disney+ crime drama — and his answer was so profound that I can't stop thinking about it

In a matter of 48 hours, I'd gone from never having heard about new Hulu and Disney+ show Furious to having binged the entire season in one go.

Frankly, my only regret is that I hadn't done this sooner.

Despite streaming services being oversaturated with crime drama content, Furious is as astonishing cut above the rest.

Across its eight episodes, we follow FBI agent Alice Black (Emmy Rossum) as she hunts Catherine Grace (Lola Petticrew), a calculating sex-trafficking survivor turned serial killer.

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Rather than being a cat-and-mouse two-hander like Killing Eve , we quickly become entrenched in the secretive and corrupt worlds of both law enforcement and the upper echelons of society.

You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours, but in the most hideous of ways.

Normally when I speak to the cast of a series that has such intense and dark undertones, I'll ask them to recommend another series that will act as a way to decompress, if fans wanted to do a double bill.

But Scoot McNairy, who plays NYPD detective Danny in the show, has a completely different take on the question... and it's made me look at Furious differently. 'We watch violent things so far out of our world for escapism' "I think that fans are watching Furious to decompress," McNairy tells me.

"I think that's why we watch such violent things that are so far out of our world... it's for escapism, to believe the unbelievable.

"When you see something that feels stranger than fiction, but it's real, I think that that is the lure to the show.

I mean, I feel like we all watch this stuff to decompress, to get us out of the stuff in our own lives.

Liz [Merriweather, showrunner] is doing a really good job at that.