An addictive new crime thriller series is now available to watch on streaming

Produced and directed in part by Ridley Scott (American Gangster, Gladiator), this could be your next TV obsession.

Apple TV+ has just added Dope Thief, an addictive new crime thriller series produced and directed in part by Ridley Scott (American Gangster, Gladiator).

Created by Peter Craig (The Batman, The Town) and based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Tafoya, the show follows Ray (Brian Tyree Henry, Atlanta) and Manny (Wagner Moura, Narcos) – two cash-strapped, life-long friends and delinquents in Philadelphia.

To support themselves and their families, the pair begin posing as DEA agents and orchestrating fake raids on low-level drug dealers as a means of stealing their cash.

However, their small-time grift becomes a life-and-death enterprise when they attempt a robbery at an unknown house in the countryside and “unwittingly reveal and unravel the biggest hidden narcotics corridor on the Eastern Seaboard”.