Furies: Resistance dropped on Netflix, and the Parisian underworld has never been so deadly. Two years since the first series exploded onto screens and instantly captivated audiences across the globe, the second season begins precisely where its mind-blowing cliffhanger left off, with two women caught in a merciless new power they never suspected.
If you haven’t been lurking in the shadows of Paris’s underworld since 2024, now is the time to dust off your memory before diving into Season 2.
Here’s everything that went down in Season 1.
Furies Season 1: From birthday bloodshed to a criminal reckoning
Furies starts with Lyna Guerrab, a university student who wanted nothing more than to keep her head down and make a normal life with boyfriend Elie, a police officer. On her birthday, however, everything is snapped violently apart. Her father is shot before her eyes, and her mother is left critically wounded. Lyna refuses to give the police the names of the killers, convinced that silence is her best defense. Instead, it earns her a prison sentence. The day she gets out of prison, her despair over her loss has turned into a hunger to know the truth.
Her journey takes her further into the underworld architecture of Paris’s organized crime world, which exists in the shadow city and is run by six dominant families, collectively called the ‘Olympus.’
At the top of the order, and settled over everyone else, functioning as the peace-maker and arbiter, is the Fury. It is a role that has been passed down through a matrilineal bloodline stretching back generations to 1928, when the last surviving Arago woman pulled the criminal underground back from the brink of self-annihilation and named herself the protector.
In Furies, the present Fury is Selma, played with cool ferocity by Marina Fois, a woman who has spent her entire life inside a system that demands absolute loyalty and punishes every weakness.
What neither woman could have imagined is how completely their lives would become intertwined. It turns out Selma has had her eye on Lyna for years, preparing her against the inevitable day she would need a successor, hiding some devastating secrets in the process.
Midway through Furies, Lyna learns that she is not who she thinks she is. Her parents are not her birth parents. She was brought to them as an infant by a woman dressed in black, Selma herself. Driss, Selma’s own brother, is her real father; her real mother was Kahina, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
This revelation in Furies changes everything. Meanwhile, Driss had been languishing in jail for almost twenty years since Olympus put the hit out on him. Selma, the Fury assigned to carry out the execution, covertly let him live by faking his death and hiding him. He has spent twenty years simmering with resentment, and when Lyna finally tracks him down, he is well on the way to taking down the Olympus from the inside, operating as a masked figure known only to his victims before they die.
It’s not about personal retribution, though. Driss is searching for something much greater: an entry into Olympus’s most valuable possession, the mine. It is the armoured train, travelling under the streets of Paris, that contains the accumulated wealth of all six of the Godfathers.
The final part of Furies is a race to board the train, with Lyna and Selma attacking and disarming armed guards in carriage after carriage, as they know the train carries a bomb and that Driss is somewhere up ahead. Meanwhile, Elie and Orso, who were supposedly trying to kill Lyna but are now her protectors, struggle to locate a disused station where they can stop the train.
Selma catches up with Driss, but, after he has already been wounded by Lyna as he tried to escape her. He asks his sister to shoot him so his daughter does not have to grow up as the daughter of a patricide. Selma shoots him and hides another secret: she is the one who killed Kahina’s family, many years before, to cover up her failure as Fury. The only witness was Driss, and now he is dead.
In Furies, Lyna is unable to choose between Elie and Orso, but the farewell she offers to the former is of a depth and significance that the latter will never manage to attain. She and Selma resolve to face the Olympus, ready for retribution, only to find that all the Godfathers are dead.
Out of the dark emerges Damocles, an international mercenary syndicate that has effectively taken out the entire power structure from the shadows, whilst the Furies were busy on the train. In a moment, the world that they both inhabit, survived in and helped to break, has been replaced by an altogether more terrifying world and a far more unfamiliar one.
Edited by Sahiba Tahleel