Rossum tells W. “I just thought, well, this is really interesting—that you can be hunting something and attracted to it.” Emmy Rossum as Alice in Furious. Disney/Sarah ShatzCatherine is a serial killer, and yet the show asks us to empathize with her. Furious gets its name—Liz is so brilliant—from the Furies, the Greek goddesses who fly through the night sky enacting vengeance. Scoot McNairy and Emmy Rossum in Furious.