Black Widow
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Sep 17, 2026
James StaceyHOST
I think it's gnarlier than people might be ready for necessarily, but I'll read the, the Wikipedia.
James StaceyHOST
Furious is an American crime drama television series created by Elizabeth Merryweather and loosely inspired by the f- 1987 film, Black Widow.
James StaceyHOST
The, the series stars Emmy Rossum as an FBI agent, Alice Black, alongside Lola Petticrew as a calculating serial killer, Catherine Grace.
James StaceyHOST
Also stars, uh, Quincy Tyler Bernstein, who if you don't know her, she absolutely, like from the first scene in this show, she's, you know, batting 1,000.
Maria SharapovaHOST
Emmy Rossum got her start in show business in the Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus, where she learned that performance requires discipline.
Maria SharapovaHOST
As a teenager, she broke into film, and she held her own on projects with legends like Sean Penn and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Maria SharapovaHOST
She spent most of her 20s starring in the hit TV series, Shameless, where she developed the confidence to advocate for equal pay.
Maria SharapovaHOST
And now, in her 30s, she's taking her career into her own hands more than ever.
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Emmy RossumGUEST
Mm-hmm
Maria SharapovaHOST
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Maria SharapovaHOST
in the film adaptation of Phantom of the Opera.
Emmy RossumGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Liz MeriwetherGUEST
That's really funny.
Andy GreenwaldHOST
Let's, uh, I wanna go back to the beginning because, you know, when the, when the show was announced and the show premiered, there was a lot of talk about a, to my mind, I, I did not know the film Black Widow.
Andy GreenwaldHOST
I did not remember it.
Andy GreenwaldHOST
And I wondered if you could talk a little bit about the genesis of the project.
Andy GreenwaldHOST
Was one of you a secret Black Widow obsessive? Wa- h- how did, how did, how did the project come together, and how did you two partner on it?
Liz MeriwetherGUEST
Well, you are a black widow, right? [laughs]
Emmy RossumGUEST
Yes.
Emmy RossumGUEST
Yes, I've killed so many of my husbands.
Alison StewartHOST
How did you meet Liz Meriwether?
Emmy RossumGUEST
I met Liz because I watched this movie, Black Widow, when I was looking for a next project.
Emmy RossumGUEST
I was...
Emmy RossumGUEST
You know, I, I have a smaller production company.
Emmy RossumGUEST
So I was like, "Well, what, what are we gonna do? What, what, what, you know, what corners of the library are people not looking in that we can look in?" So we started looking through the back catalogs of all these great film studios and looking at the great movies that they had made in the '80s and '90s, a lot of which were these propulsive thrillers, that we knew the market is desiring of these thrillers now.
Emmy RossumGUEST
What can we find that's a good skeleton? So we spent one summer just watching tons and tons of movies based on loglines.
Emmy RossumGUEST
Um, and Black Widow was this movie, um, that we watched with Deborah Winger and Theresa Russell.
Emmy RossumGUEST
And when I watched it, it was the perfect skeleton.
Justin HamiltonHOST
Hello and welcome to the Justin Hamilton podcast.
Justin HamiltonHOST
On today's episode, the fabulous Adam Richard joins me to discuss a film that's been out for a few weeks, The End of Oak Street.
Justin HamiltonHOST
We recorded this initially for my Patreon subscribers, but...
Justin HamiltonHOST
I feel like this film has slipped between the cracks a little bit and I would kind of like to encourage people to maybe go and check it out in the cinema where they can and have a good time.
Justin HamiltonHOST
I think it's a really fun film and yeah, you know...
Justin HamiltonHOST
Australians are going back to the cinema in record numbers.
Justin HamiltonHOST
You're enjoying going out there.
Justin HamiltonHOST
We're finding films that we can have a sense of community with and have some fun.
Media MelanieHOST
She was in love.
Media MelanieHOST
She was 14.
Media MelanieHOST
I would imagine the guy was older, probably filmed this.
Media MelanieHOST
Dani said, I think you knew this was out there.
Media MelanieHOST
So she probably knew it was being recorded.
Laura MillerGUEST
And then to finally catch the killer.
Brent BamburyHOST
Just for context, it's loosely based on an old Bob Rafelson movie from the 80s called Black Widow.
Brent BamburyHOST
What was that film like? Was it similar at all to Furious?
Laura MillerGUEST
Well, that was what they would call an erotic thriller.
Sandy AdamitisHOST
I think that was last year.
Sandy AdamitisHOST
Anyway, Furious stars Emmy Rossum as an FBI agent, Alice Blaque, I like her initials, AB, and is an eight-episode psychological thriller crime drama inspired by the 1987 film Black Widow.
Sandy AdamitisHOST
Now, Black Widow was a thriller written by Jack Pearson, directed by Bob Rafelson, and it starred Debra Winger and Theresa Russell.
Sandy AdamitisHOST
It was about a federal investigator who becomes obsessed with tracking down a woman who marries wealthy men and murders them.
Sandy AdamitisHOST
The cast is great in Furious.
Media MelanieHOST
Intense, insane penultimate episode of television and I can't wait to see where this finale goes, and I'm really hoping we get renewal news here.
Media MelanieHOST
This is loosely based on the 1987 film Black Widow, but it's been completely changed, and I think with a lot of these things that are initially talked about as a limited series, there's definitely a lot of potential for them to come back.
Media MelanieHOST
So we need renewal news on this show.
Media MelanieHOST
These characters are just cooking, and they couldn't cook without the incredible writing, and they couldn't cook together without this chemistry that they've built.