Talk about warnings for spoilers: here's one for what follows in my review of the first two episodes of Smoke, which have been up for a few days on Apple TV+. Indeed, the reveal at the end of the second episode of this new series is one of the biggest I ever remember seeing on any kind of TV series -- broadcast, cable, or streaming -- especially notable because it comes so early in the story.
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Here it is: Gudsen, one of the two investigators looking into the two arsonists who are plaguing their city, is himself one of those two arsonists. We certainly see him setting a fire in a supermarket -- one of the two arsonists' modus operandi -- and smiling afterwards (Taron Egerton, who plays Gudsen, has a uniquely recognizable smile).
But does that 100% mean Gudsen is one of those two arsonists that he and his partner Calderone (very well played by Jurnee Smollett) are investigating? The TV series is an adaptation of the podcast, Firebug, which tells the story of a real-life firefighter who becomes an arsonist. But that doesn't mean that Smoke has to follow every part of the true-life story. Before that final reveal, we see Gudsen very frustrated. The literary agent he is seeking for the novel he is writing has turned him down. He doesn't get along well with his adopted son. Could he have set the fire to vent his emotions, setting it in the way one of the arsonists he and Calderone are investigating sets fires?
If yes, that would mean that Trolley Town is now being set on fire by three arsonists. But my guess it's more likely that Gudsen is indeed one of the original two arsonists, which is still a wild -- and true -- story indeed.
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