Director: Dennis Lehane

Cast: Taron Egerton, Jurnee Smollett, John Leguizamo, Rafe Spall, Greg Kinnear

Smoke is a 2025 American crime drama series created by Dennis Lehane, following an arson investigator and a homicide detective forced into an uneasy partnership as they race to identify and stop two arsonists leaving a trail of destruction and buried secrets across the city.

What is Smoke about?

The series centers on two law enforcement professionals who operate by very different rules. An arson investigator — methodical, data-driven, accustomed to working alone — is pulled into a volatile collaboration with a seasoned police detective when a string of deliberately set fires begin escalating in both frequency and body count. As they dig into the evidence, they realize the fires are not random acts of destruction but calculated moves in a larger, more personal game. Each step closer to the arsonists pulls them deeper into a web where the boundaries between hunter and hunted begin to blur, and old loyalties are tested under the heat of the investigation.

Cast & crew

The series was created by Dennis Lehane, the acclaimed crime fiction writer behind Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone. Taron Egerton leads the cast, joined by Jurnee Smollett, John Leguizamo, Rafe Spall, Greg Kinnear, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, and Hannah Emily Anderson — an ensemble that brings considerable dramatic range to Lehane's signature pressure-cooker storytelling.

Context & significance

For Persian-speaking viewers and the Iranian diaspora, Smoke offers the kind of tightly plotted American crime drama that has always found a passionate audience across cultures. Lehane's storytelling tradition — gritty urban settings, morally compromised characters, institutions that fail ordinary people — translates powerfully for diaspora viewers who appreciate stories where truth is hard-won and authority is rarely trustworthy. The full series is available in Persian dub, making it fully accessible without any language barrier for Farsi-first households. Crime procedurals in this tradition have a long track record of word-of-mouth popularity in Iranian diaspora communities.

Where & how to watch

Smoke is available on K-Time with full Persian dub. Watch on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download required. Start your subscription and cancel anytime.