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Quirky reporter Fiona Flash and her furry sidekick, Fluff, investigate stories and rumors to find the truth in every situation.
As she stands over the body of billionaire Jay Easton’s son, Caleb, newly recruited FBI Agent Alice Black can’t help but wonder why this murder seems so familiar to her.
A staged overdose. The scene cleaned spotless. Scratches on a doorframe. A recent girlfriend no one can seem to remember.
It all reminds her of a case she worked back when she was a regular police officer.
Adrian Murado. An ex-con. He, too, had died of an overdose. At the time, they thought it was just an accident. Now, Alice isn’t so sure—and she thinks the mysterious girlfriend from that case might be the same one connected to Caleb’s.
Marshall, her friend at the precinct, isn’t as sure.
“Why would she kill an ex-con, and then a year later, do the same thing to Jay Easton’s son?” he asks. “How are those two guys connected? They’re not even on the same planet.”
But Alice isn’t so sure the men are all that different from each other.
She starts to suspect that, not only is this killer that same so-called girlfriend, but a woman seeking revenge—revenge against all the men who victimized her as a trafficked child.
Somewhere across the city, Catherine dons a new wig and a new name, preparing to cozy up to her next kill.
There is immense, terrible evil in this world. The cause: humanity.
It’s a truth Christians have pondered for thousands of years. Contrary to the majority position held by the world that most people are inherently good, Christians know we are truly a race plagued by a sinful nature. We have all done evil. As David writes in Psalm 53, “There is none who does good, not even one.”
And Furious is a story that submerges itself in some of the deepest depths of human depravity: the sexual exploitation of children.
That’s the reason Catherine murders her targets: They were men who engaged in, promoted or otherwise financed the sex trafficking of little girls. With money, power and other corrupt people on their sides, they never faced justice for their crimes. And so, Catherine, a victim of such atrocities, decides to provide that justice herself.
But the show makes another important point, too: that evil begets evil. What happened to Catherine was terrible, but in her crusade against her abusers, she takes advantage of and traumatizes innocent people along the way, including another little girl.
As Alice attempts to stop Catherine’s murder spree, she’s assisted by Nora, whose time at the FBI investigating sex crimes and crimes against children has left her utterly depressed at humanity’s sorry state. And that’s the warning I’d give to viewers, too: Furious is a depressing watch. It dwells on those dark, evil topics for much of its runtime—and when it does not, it’s only because Catherine is busy keeping her current target incapacitated.
The content we witness is similarly heavy, featuring sex, nudity, murder, exploitation, plenty of crude language, hetero and homosexual abuse, drug use and more. All in all, there’s no moment in the show that’ll be a light watch.
If there’s anything to be gleaned from the show, it’s that it’s aptly named. The show’s premise should make one furious at the wickedness in which so many people willfully engage with debased minds. But rightly calling something evil doesn’t make the show any easier to watch—especially when Furious itself references and depicts many of those evils.
(Editor’s Note: Plugged In is rarely able to watch every episode of a given series for review. As such, there’s always a chance that you might see a problem that we didn’t. If you notice content that you feel should be included in our review, send us an email at letters@pluggedin.com, or contact us via Facebook or Instagram, and be sure to let us know the episode number, title and season so that we can check it out.)
As Catherine seeks a way to get closer to her next target, Alice begins investigating Catherine’s trail of evidence.
Catherine exposes her breasts to the camera a couple of times. Alice masturbates in her clothes. Catherine passionately kisses another woman while in her underwear. And later, Catherine kisses a man and grabs his genitals under his pants. The next time we see them, they’re lying in bed together post-intimacy. A teenager says that Catherine flashed him her genitals as she walked by.
A man admits to divorcing his wife because he had a “sex addiction” that she couldn’t keep pace with—and because she talked too much for his liking. He procures a legal document for someone to ensure he has her consent for sex. We see LGBT-affirming posters and a laptop sticker that reads “Trans kids belong in sports.” A man references having a male romantic partner.
Someone mentions that her department head is actively reviewing CSAM and child pornography to identify perpetrators. There are references to sex crimes, trafficked girls and rape. Alice—whose ex-boyfriend beat her, we’re told—invites a man over to roughly throw her around her room. We meet a woman in critical condition at the hospital who was severely beaten. We are told she was being trafficked and helping to traffic other women. Camera footage shows a screaming woman being dragged across the ground by a trafficker.
We see a drugged Caleb, bloodied in a bathroom, desperately dragging himself across the floor as he tries to escape Catherine. Catherine injects him with a lethal dose of fentanyl, watching as he slowly overdoses and dies. An inebriated woman punches and kicks Catherine.
Someone mentions the mythological creature Medusa’s origins, wherein Poseidon raped her in Athena’s temple, causing Athena to turn Medusa’s hair into snakes. We see some dead bodies in photos. Someone references a girl who had been beaten to death with a pipe. A woman claims that any woman who becomes a serial killer must first have been a victim of something.
Catherine takes advantage of people, lying and seducing to get her way. She lies to social workers in order to gain access to a women’s shelter for survivors of domestic abuse. Knowing one of the female staff members thinks she is attractive, Catherine encourages the woman to cheat on her current partner and have sex with her (and later admits to taking a photo of the incident to use as blackmail).
A man snorts cocaine. An older teen smokes marijuana. People smoke cigarettes and drink liquor and wine. A woman states that she’s inebriated.
We hear nearly 30 instances of the f-word and around seven of the s-word. Other crudities include “b–ch” and “d–k.” God’s name is used in vain six times, including one instance paired with “d–n.” Someone calls the FBI, telling Alice to “lick my butt.”
Kennedy Unthank studied journalism at the University of Missouri. He knew he wanted to write for a living when he won a contest for “best fantasy story” while in the 4th grade. What he didn’t know at the time, however, was that he was the only person to submit a story. Regardless, the seed was planted. Kennedy collects and plays board games in his free time, and he loves to talk about biblical apologetics. He’s also an avid cook. He thinks the ending of Lost “wasn’t that bad.”
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