This week, Peacock is sending audiences to the dark side of sunny Florida in the new thriller series M.I.A. The fires of anger and vengeance are burning for Etta Tiger Jonze (Shannon Gisela, The Secrets We Keep) in a new, Collider-exclusive sneak peek of the series. All nine episodes of M.I.A. will premiere on Peacock on May 7.

In our sneak peek, Jonze is on a beach in the Florida Keys with her friends Lovely (Brittany Adebumola, The Other Black Girl) and Stanley (Dylan Jackson, Godfather of Harlem). It’s a solemn occasion; Etta is the last survivor of her family, and Lovely wants her to burn a picture of them to properly pay her respects. However, that isn’t the fire Etta burns with; she vividly remembers the last moments of her drug-running clan, as they were shot to death by business rivals, then unceremoniously incinerated. It’s something she’ll never forget; even as Lovely insists that she perform the ceremony; if not for herself, then for her family.

We don’t see what she does next, but we do know that she’ll be plunging into the seamy underbelly of the Miami underworld to find her family’s killers. Will Etta put them to the torch, or will she be consumed by the flames of vengeance? You’ll have to find out for yourself this week on Peacock.

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.

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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.

M.I.A. was created and written by Bill Dubuque (Ozark), and showrun and written by Karen Campbell (Dexter). The series is directed by Alethea Jones (High Potential), Gwyneth Horder-Payton (American Horror Story), **Mairzee Almas **(Monarch: Legacy of Monsters), Ben Semanoff (Black Rabbit), and John Dahl (The Last Seduction); Jones also executive produces with Dubuque and Campbell. The series also stars Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride), Danay Garcia (Fear the Walking Dead), Alberto Guerra (Griselda), Maurice Compte (Breaking Bad), Gerardo Celasco (The Waterfront), and Marta Milans (Shazam!), with guest appearances by Billy Burke (Twilight), Sônia Braga (Kiss of the Spider Woman), Loretta Devine (Waiting to Exhale), Tovah Feldshuh (Nobody Wants This), Tyler Perez (Abbott Elementary), Paul Ben-Victor (The Wire), David Denman (Mare of Easttown), and Miami Vice legend Edward James Olmos.

If you don’t have Peacock yet, you can still get a taste of M.I.A. As a special broadcast event, NBC will air the pilot episode on Thursday, May 14, at 10 p.m. ET. M.I.A. will premiere on Peacock on May 7. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.

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