Taron Egerton is smoking hot in this new Apple TV+ thriller series trailer

Apple TV+ has had a pretty stellar year, between Severance, The Studio, and now Murderbot, with more in the pipeline, and it just unveiled a particularly enticing new show coming soon. Smoke looks like a twisty thriller, and it stars Taron Egerton in what looks like a meaty and complex role.

He plays an arson investigator in the middle of trying to figure out the identities of two serial arsonists plaguing a community. When a new detective (Jurnee Smollett) is assigned to help him out, things start to get more complicated, as his tone shifts and he seems unwilling to accept help.

Smoke — Official Trailer | Apple TV+ - YouTube

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The trailer embedded above is really quite gripping, and heavily implies that there's more to Egerton's investigator than meets the eye. In fact, it starts to look a little like he might know more about the arson crimes going on than he's admitting – certainly he seems to have an obsession with fire himself.

Smollett's character will obviously have to start digging deeper to figure things out, as she becomes closer to Egerton's in-fiction wife and friends. It's going to be a tangled web, that's for sure, but the show also looks really nice visually, and will clearly have some impressive fire-based set-pieces.

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However it unfolds, it looks like an interesting crime show to add to Apple TV+'s repertoire, and rekindles a partnership with Egerton that was started by Black Bird, a 2022 prison drama that was similarly tense and well-acted. He's one of the most capable young actors working today, so I'm all for it.

Smoke will start on 27 June, so you've got almost exactly a month to clear your streaming decks and make way for it each week. It's a great addition from Apple TV+ at a time when its supremacy in sci-fi is basically completely secure – time to come for crime drama, too. I think it's the best streaming service available today, from both a value and quality standpoint, and Smoke looks set to make it all the more attractive if you want some suspense in your evening viewings.