Jessica Chastain Hunts Domestic Terrorists in Chilling “The Savant” Trailer
The first trailer for The Savant offers a chilling statistic—between 1994 and 2020, there were 893 extremist attacks in America. The people committed to doing their best to protect us from even more of them aren’t often the ones who might think of it. In fact, we mostly don’t know they exist. Jessica Chastain’s character in Savant is one such person—a suburban mom by day, a tireless hunter by night. Chastain, who was excellent in Kathryn Bigelow’s masterpiece Zero Dark Thirty, is not new to ripped-from-the-headlines thrillers that deal in serious political and legal gray areas, and she’s once again back in these murky waters for Apple TV+’s new series.
“My job is pretending to think like them,” Chastain’s character tells one of her children, “to stop those people from doing really bad things.” She’s so good at it, she’s earned herself a nickname—yup, the Savant—on beginning on September 26, we’ll see Chastain pitted against snipers, bombers, ambushers, and homegrown terrorists of all stripes. One case in particular has been front and center of her work, with a massive potential plot underway that, Chastain later tells us, is the “kind that history refers to with a month and a date.”
Eventually, Chastain’s Savant keeps pushing deeper into this larger plot, and in doing so, puts her family in harm’s way. With her job and her family life now terribly intertwined, The Savant promises to show us what happens when the best at what she does faces an enemy just as cunning but even more ruthless.
Check out the trailer below. The Savant arrives on September 26.
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Featured image: Episode 3. Jessica Chastain in “The Savant,” premiering September 26, 2025 on Apple TV+.
