Inside Look at ‘Smoke’ Series with Taron Egerton & Jurnee Smollett
by Alex Billington
June 29, 2025
Source: YouTube
“By the end it’s a dark, twisted voyage through hell.” Now available to stream if you need some extra “heat” this summer. 🔥 Apple TV has unveiled a promo featurette for their fire series called Smoke, inspired by the “Firebug” podcast about a real arsonist. This new original psychological thriller series is created by the acclaimed author Dennis Lehane, whose best-selling crime thriller mystery books (“Mystic River”, “Gone Baby Gone”, “Shutter Island”) everyone is familiar with already. The series just started streaming recently – this latest promo featurette is to help build more buzz for it. Inspired by true events, and set in the Pacific Northwest, Smoke follows a troubled detective and an enigmatic arson investigator as they both pursue the trails of two serial arsonists. Taron Egerton (as arson investigator Dave Gudsen) and Jurnee Smollett (as Det. Michell Calderon) attempt to get as close to the truth as possible—without getting burned. The full series cast also includes John Leguizamo, Rafe Spall, Greg Kinnear, Ntare Mwine, Hannah Emily Anderson, Anna Chlumsky. It looks quite good! An intense series about arson and dysfunctional people.
Here’s the “Inside Look” featurette for Dennis Lehane’s thriller series Smoke, from Apple TV’s YouTube:
You can rewatch the main official trailer for Apple TV+’s series Smoke right here for even more footage.
From Apple Studios comes Smoke, a new series created, written, executive produced by acclaimed author Dennis Lehane. Taron Egerton & Jurnee Smollett attempt to get as close to the truth as possible—without getting burned. A police detective and an arson investigator work together to try and stop two serial arsonists in the Pacific Northwest. Smoke is a series created and executive produced by acclaimed novelist / producer Dennis Lehane, who wrote the novels “Mystic River”, “Gone Baby Gone”, “Shutter Island”, “Live By Night”, “The Drop”, “Small Mercies”, and many others; he also recently wrote the series “The Outsider” & “Black Bird” as well. Inspired by the podcast called “Firebug” from Truth.Media. With writing by Dennis Lehane, Adriane McCray, Molly Anne Miller. And featuring episodes directed by Jim McKay, Joe Chappelle, Kari Skogland. It’s executive produced by Dennis Lehane, Taron Egerton, Richard Plepler, Kary Antholis, Bradley Thomas, Dan Friedkin, Marc Smerling, Kari Skogland, Joe Chappelle, & Jane Bartelme. Apple will release the Smoke series streaming on Apple TV+ starting June 27th, 2025 this summer. Look any good?
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