Oscar winner Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) stars in Apple TV+’s new thriller The Savant, premiering on Friday, September 26, 2025. The first clip from episode one, “Whack-a-Mole,” shows Chastain as the titular character pretending to be an extremist in an online chat room.
“The tense and high-stakes limited series follows an undercover investigator known as ‘The Savant’ as she infiltrates online hate groups in an effort to stop domestic extremists before they act,” reads Apple TV+’s synopsis.
The Episode One Plot: “The psychological toll of Jodi Goodwin’s double life as an undercover investigator begins to surface after a mass shooting hits close to home.”
The series also stars Nnamdi Asomugha, Cole Doman, Jordana Spiro, Trinity Lee Shirley, and Toussaint Francois Battiste. Pablo Schreiber (Halo) guest stars.
Andrea Stanley, writer of the original 2019 Cosmopolitan feature, advised the series as a consultant. Series star Jessica Chastain serves as an executive producer along with Kelly Carmichael, Emmy Award winner Alan Poul (Tokyo Vice), Emmy Award nominee Melissa James Gibson (Anatomy of a Scandal), two-time DGA Award winner Matthew Heineman (A Private War), David Levine, and Garrett Kemble.
Chastain talked about her character’s job and being in such a harsh environment in an interview with Television Academy. “The idea that every single day this woman is pretending to be a hate-filled, homophobic, racist, sexist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic a-hole, looking at so many images that are really harmful and destructive and having to write such things—how do you prevent that from taking over who you are? That was the most interesting thing to explore about the character,” said Chastain.
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