Jessica Chastain is a Sneaky Investigator in ‘The Savant’ Series Trailer
by Alex Billington
August 26, 2025
Source: YouTube
“We need to infiltrate further…” Apple has unveiled the first trailer for a thriller series titled The Savant, with episodes available for streaming starting in September running through November. This new series is based on the true story of an sneaky undercover investigator known as “The Savant” as she infiltrates online hate groups in an effort to stop domestic extremists before they act. The series is reportedly inspired by a true-life story originally published in Cosmopolitan in August 2019 about this “Savant” woman and what she achieved already. Jessica Chastain produces and stars in this new series as the mysterious woman at the center of the story. It follows the Savant, a top-secret investigator who infiltrates internet hate organizations to bring down the nation’s most violent men. The Apple TV+ series also stars Nnamdi Asomugha, Cole Doman, Jordana Spiro, Trinity Lee Shirley, Toussaint Francois Battiste, plus guest star Pablo Schreiber (as a bad guy?). With episodes directed by the filmmaker Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land, City of Ghosts, A Private War). This reminds me of a doc from this year called Hacking Hate also about a woman (from Sweden) who also infiltrates hate groups online and works to mess up their plans. Take a look.
Here’s the official trailer (+ poster) for Apple TV’s thriller series The Savant, direct from YouTube:
The tense, high-stakes thriller follows an undercover investigator known as “The Savant” (starring Jessica Chastain) as she infiltrates online hate groups in an effort to stop domestic extremists before they act. The series is reportedly inspired by a true-life story entitled “Is It Possible to Stop a Mass Shooting Before It Happens?” which featured in Cosmopolitan in August 2019 of a woman who has come to be known as “the Savant” who infiltrates online hate-groups in order to prevent large-scale public attacks. The Savant is a series created by Canadian writer Melissa James Gibson, known for her many stage plays and writing on the series “The Americans”, “House of Cards”, and “Anatomy of a Scandal”. With additional writing from Frank Pugliese, Jerome Hairston, Amy Herzog, and James Anthony Tyler. Andrea Stanley, the writer of the original Cosmopolitan feature, serves as a consultant. And with episodes directed by acclaimed filmmaker Matthew Heineman (of Cartel Land, City of Ghosts, A Private War, Retrograde, American Symphony). Made by Fifth Season. Executive produced by Jessica Chastain, Kelly Carmichael, Alan Poul, Melissa James Gibson, Matthew Heineman, David Levine, Garrett Kemble. Apple will debut The Savant series streaming on Apple TV+ starting September 26th, 2025 with new eps out every week. Anyone into this? Intrigued?
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