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Smoke

★ 6.6 16K votes 2025–2025 1 season · 9 episodes Ended Apple TV
Unreliable narratorThe telling itself can't be trusted.This show: 8/10Antihero leadA protagonist doing bad things you can't stop watching.This show: 8/10Detective mysteryCrime-solving from the investigator's side of the table.This show: 8/10Morally grayNo clean heroes or villains anywhere in sight.This show: 8/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 8/10Character studyInterior life matters more than plot.This show: 7/10SerializedContinuous arcs where every episode builds on the last.This show: 7/10TenseSustained suspense and pressure from start to finish.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Taron EgertonJurnee SmollettRafe SpallNtare Guma Mbaho MwineHannah Emily AndersonGreg Kinnear
Written by
Dennis Lehane
Starring
Taron EgertonJurnee SmollettRafe SpallNtare Guma Mbaho MwineHannah Emily AndersonGreg Kinnear
Written by
Dennis Lehane
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
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About

"A predator hunts himself and doesn't know it"

An arson investigator with a novelist's flair for storytelling teams up with a detective to hunt a serial arsonist terrorizing a city, only for the case to blur uncomfortably into his own psyche. The show unfolds as a slow-burn character study wrapped in genre-thriller clothing, leaning on moody atmosphere, unreliable narration, and a magnetic lead performance rather than propulsive plotting. It rewards patience with psychological unease more than fire and explosions. Expect brooding tone, morally murky characters, and a puzzle-box structure that prioritizes mood over momentum.

Watch it for

the unnervingly layered lead performance that keeps you guessing about who's really being hunted.

Maybe skip if

you want fast-paced procedural thrills instead of a slow psychological character study.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Miniseries2025
7.16K97h 52m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Pilot6.9
85365 min
▶2Your Happy Makes Me Sad7.1
74655 min
▶3Weird Milk6.8
62642 min
▶4Strawberry6.9
57640 min
▶5Size Matters7.2
58152 min
▶6Manhood7.8
63256 min
▶7Whitewashed Tombs7.8
63755 min
▶8Mercy7.6
60248 min
▶9Mirror Mirror6.5
78759 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Taron Egerton Dave Gudsen
Jurnee Smollett Michelle Calderone
Rafe Spall Steven Burk
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine Freddy Fasano
Hannah Emily Anderson Ashley Gudsen
Greg Kinnear Harvey Englehart
John Leguizamo Ezra Esposito
Luke Roessler Emmett
Mishka Thébaud Benji
Dakota Daulby Lee

Crew

Dennis Lehane

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