In the hit crime thriller John Wick, a retired assassin is dragged back into a world he thought he’d left behind. He is driven by pure vengeance after his precious dog is killed. Peacock has a new crime thriller, M.I.A, premiering on May 7, about a young woman who goes on a revenge mission after her family is killed. The gritty, color-filled thriller takes place in the Sunshine State and is set in the dark, drug-fueled Miami criminal underbelly. The show’s official logline below explains:

Restless in the Florida Keys, Etta Tiger Jonze (Shannon Gisela) dreams of a life in Miami’s glittering, sub-tropical kingdom. When her family’s drug-running business shatters in tragedy, however, Etta embarks on a dangerous journey through Miami’s neon-lit underbelly that will define who she is and what she’s ultimately capable of.

M.I.A was created by Bill Dubuque, best known for co-creating the hit Netflix crime thriller, Ozark. The Ozark influence is evident in M.I.A., which is also set in a water-surrounded area, and both shows take advantage of this setting. Dubuque is also a seasoned writer, especially in the crime thriller subgenre, having written on Ozark, His & Hers, The Accountant, and The Accountant 2. He wrote the pilot and penultimate episode of M.I.A. Gisela leads the cast that also includes Cary Elwes, Danay Garcia, Brittany Adebumola, Dylan Jackson, Alberto Guerra, Maurice Compte, Gerardo Celasco, and Marta Milans. Karen Campbell serves as the showrunner and writer.

Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.

Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.

Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.

Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.

Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.

Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.

After surviving a hit on her family, Ettta has one mission: to kill the 12 men who killed her family. Underneath the neon-lit streets of Miami, where every day is a party, gangs lurk in the shadows as they recharge the partygoers with drugs — and that’s how Etta aims to find them. She uses every tool at her disposal to track them down, but this is an easy mission in theory, because taking out drug dealers is not easy.

Ella finds benefactors who train her in combat and provide the weapons she needs. But is a deep desire to kill enough to see a mission through, especially when your opponents are as ruthless as they come? Can Etta pay the price it will take to bring down these men? She survived the hit, the Atlantic, and the rough streets of Miami; maybe she’ll survive this, too.

All episodes of M.I.A premiere on Peacock on May 7. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.

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