Furies (2024) – Season 1 Episode 6 Recap & Review

Nature abhors a vacuum

Episode 6 of Furies begins with three words that have changed everything for Lyna – Driss killed Selma. With Selma dead, it’s up to Lyna to pick up the mantle and make good on what she promised she was going to do. The war has begun, and Lyna is about to take it right to the heart of Olympus, driving a wedge in the very heart of the gang.

When Papou finds out, he’s distraught but Lyna is not ready to roll over and take this lying down. She encourages him to join in and help gain retribution against those who will wrong them. As they try to strike a deal, the fighting spills over to the K Brothers’ compound. Driss leads his men forward and begins laying down the law.

Lyna is now the new Fury in Selma’s absence, whether those in the office like or not. Specifically, The Fixer, who doesn’t like what’s transpired and certainly doesn’t trust her.

Lyna brings the team over to the Duke’s Town House first, where she tries to make a deal with The Duke, wanting to use his weed as bait for Driss to show and be ensnared in her trap. He refuses, naturally, but Lyna is not ready to give up just yet.

Lyna holds her own against the guy and even manages to suss out who among them is the snitch working with Driss, given he tries to high-tail it away. The Duke captures him and realizes that Selma has trained her well. “Don’t disappoint me,” He says, as Lyna swallows hard and prepares for this ambush.

A knock at the door doesn’t bring Driss that night, but instead the K Brothers, who show and explain what’s been happening. Naturally, they’re also not prepared to accept Lyna as the new Fury and knock her down to prove a point. They also drop off a dead body too.

All of this seems to be part of Parques’ plan, given he intends to try and take the mantle of Fury for himself. Being a Fury is a curse though, ending in bloodshed as we know. It’s a future that Lyna’s father (seen via a video that Driss shows her) didn’t intend for her to be part of.

Driss shows just how serious he is too, sending a video over to Olympus in the wake of all this and killing a whole bunch of goons in cold blood. They discuss just how to deal with this and try to come up with a solution to destroy Driss, whom they think is back from the dead. In fact, they decide to try and get Parques involved, believing he’s the only one good enough in this role.

While this is going on, Driss speaks to Lyna and encourages her not to oppose him. Right now, she’s free to be the person she wants to be but if she continues down this path, it’s not going to end well. On the other side of bullet-proof glass, he tries to convince her to join forces, but instead Lyna blasts the glass until it eventually shatters. 

Lyna, having seen the scratches on one of Driss’ men’s faces, believes that Selma is actually still alive and is sending them a message. I mean, given we haven’t actually seen her dead body, it’s a good shout from Lyna.

Naturally, we get this confirmed a little later on in the episode, as it turns our Driss has her tied up in his chamber. However, he’s interrupted by his goons, who confirm that Parques has killed all of his men. Not only that, but word spreads quickly that Olympus are about to make him the official Fury.

This is all a ploy to make himself at the head of the table and unfortunately, it play right into his hands. They’ve entrusted their worst enemy with the mantle of the Fury.

On his way out, Parques is spotted by Lyna, who holds him up at gunpoint. However, he turns his back and Orso, who’s now working for Parques, stabs her repeatedly in the gut… or does he? Turns out he actually cuts himself and as Parques draws close, Orso tries to hit a sneak attack.

It doesn’t work, but it does buy Lyna time to shoot him in the neck. Parques is hit in the neck and bleeds out before he can tell them anything.

It turns out the Godfathers actually gave Parques their proverbial smoking gun. Their big secret is an armored train that constantly moves around the underground holding more money than the Bank of France. The “key to the mine”.

With this in hand, Lyyna decides to try and strike a deal and bring Driss out of hiding, all whilst setting up Selma’s men in a place where she can rely on them.

When Driss shows up to the open courtyard, Lyna hands over the key in exchange for Selma’s location. The thing is, Driss is actually prepared for this…but so too is Lyna. She brings the police into this and earlier called in reinforcements, coming in the form of the Paris PD, alongside Elie, who does the honours of putting handcuffs on her. The thing is, Selma is already imprisoned, and so too is Driss as well, leaving everything hanging in the balance.

As the episode closes out, an operation begins behind the scenes to kill Lyna, as the Godfathers phone someone called Damocles to do their dirty work. Meanwhile, Orso heads back to see Parques and his men, where they appear to be readying themselves for a new mission to attack the armored transport.

The Episode Review

So Furies returns with another episode that sees Lyna pick up the mantle of being the Fury and struggling to grapple with the gravity of it all. In fact, she struggles to actually impose herself on any of this show, and is easily the weak link in this crime drama.

There are a plethora of intriguing faces here, ranging from Orso and Driss to Selma and The Fixer, but Lyna just comes across as very one-note and struggles to  hold her own alongside the other characters, at least when it comes to gravitas and dramatic beats on-screen. It’s a shame too because there’s potential with this story but it feels like its been squandered here.

However, with only 2 more episodes left, we’ll have to wait and see what this Damocles character has in store for us and how he ties into the story.