Nearly a decade and a half after his last credit as a TV creator hit screens — during which time he directed one big-screen Star Trek sequel and two Star Wars films — J.J. Abrams is finally coming back to the small screen with Duster.
Co-created by LaToya Morgan and in the works since 2020, the Max crime thriller stars Rachel Hilson as the FBI’s first Black female agent and Josh Holloway as the getaway driver with whom she plots to take down a crime syndicate in the 1970s Southwest.
The project also reunites Abrams with Holloway, whom he cast in Lost more than 20 years ago. “[Abrams] called me up and asked if I had a minute, and the answer is ‘yes,’” the actor told Variety.“Always ‘yes.’ Whatever he is asking.”
Holloway has good reason to trust Abrams, considering the filmmaker’s pop-cultural cachet as one of the most intriguing storytellers in Hollywood. Ahead of Duster, here’s how we’d rank the 10 TV shows Abrams created, co-created, or executive-produced for longer than a season.