New Delhi, July 29 -- LOS ANGELES - Anya Taylor-Joy has spent the last decade playing women constrained by forces beyond them. Chess prodigies, Regency-era heroines, post-apocalyptic survivors. Lucky Armstrong, her character in Apple TV+'s new crime thriller Lucky, is the first one who chose her situation deliberately.

The seven-episode limited series premiered July 15 on Apple TV+ and releases new episodes weekly through August 19. It follows Lucky as a skilled con artist whose elaborate multi-million dollar heist unravels at precisely the wrong moment, drawing sustained FBI attention and forcing her to reckon with the person who taught her everything she knows. Created by Jonathan Tropper and adapted from Marissa Stapley's 2021 novel o...