Taron Egerton's 'Smoke' Only Gets Better as It Gets Dumber

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Apple TV+’s Smoke couldn’t have a better pedigree. It comes from novelist and screenwriter Dennis Lehane, best known for writing the books adapted into Shutter Island , Gone Baby Gone , and Mystic River . He’s no stranger to television either, having worked on The Wire , adaptations of Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes and The Outsider , and even an episode of Boardwalk Empire . For Smoke , he’s reteaming with Taron Egerton, the lead from his other Apple TV+ series, Black Bird , which earned four Emmy nominations and won two.

But wow, is Smoke dumb. Producer Seth messaged me over the weekend to say the latest episode “did something so stupid and I was like, ‘what?’ and then it

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