‘Furious’ Star’s New TV Series Officially Gets Episode 2 Sneak Peek [Exclusive]

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Cushla and Michael cradling each other's faces and almost kissing in Trespasses

Published Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT

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2026 has been a breakout year for Lola Petticrew, who starred in one of the biggest shows in the world, Furious. All episodes of the Hulu original series are now streaming after the explosive Season 1 finale a few weeks ago, and Hulu has already confirmed that the hit show, which also stars Emmy Rossum, is officially returning for Season 2. Two years before Furious, Petticrew further established her place as a star by featuring alongside Hazel Doupe and Maxine Peaks in Say Nothing, the nine-episode miniseries that debuted to widespread critical and audience acclaim. Petticrew even received a nomination for Best Lead Actress at the 2025 BAFTAs. She’s also famous for her earlier roles as Allegra in A Bump Along the Way, Amber in Dating Amber, and Young Laura in She Said. Lola Petticrew’s latest smash hit series comes in the form of Trespasses, which is currently airing on PBS after airing in the UK last year.

She leads a star-studded ensemble with support from Gillian Anderson and Tom Cullen — fans may recognize Anderson from her iconic role as Dana Scully in The X-Files, and Cullen is best known for his work as Anthony in Downton Abbey. This afternoon, Collider is happy to partner with PBS to exclusively preview a new sneak peek at Trespasses Season 1, Episode 2, which sees Cushla express her frustrations to Michael after she learns that he’s married and that engaging in affairs is a repeated pattern for him. PBS has also released a broader description of Episode 2 before it airs on September 27: “In Episode 2, as Cushla’s affair deepens, tensions rise at school and home. Her kindness with her pupil backfires, her mother’s drinking worsens, and her love for Michael is tested by betrayal, jealousy, and the dangerous politics closing in around them.”

Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Iconic Romance Is Your Favorite? Harry & Sally · Love & Basketball · Heated Rivalry · Titanic

Four great love stories, and four completely different ideas of what love actually is. One is a friendship that took twelve years to admit itself. One is two people who refuse to stop competing. One happens entirely behind closed doors. And one lasts five days and never stops mattering. Eight questions decide which one is really yours.

🍂Harry & Sally(1989)

🏀Love & Basketball(2000)

🏒Heated Rivalry(HBO Max)

🚢Titanic(1997)

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How does your love story start? The first scene tells you what kind of story this is going to be.

AWe are friends for years before either of us says anything. BWe want the same thing and neither of us backs down. CNobody can know, including our closest friends. DOne look across a room and everything changes.

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What do the two of you keep arguing about? Every great romance has one fight it has over and over.

AWhether this is actually happening, and what to call it. BWhose career comes first this year. CWhether we will ever be honest about this in public. DNothing small. When we fight, it is about everything.

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How do you show somebody that you love them? Grand gestures are easy to write. This is the harder question.

AI remember every single thing they have told me. BI show up to the things that matter to them. CI keep their secrets like they are my own. DI would give up something enormous for them.

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What is actually standing in the way? There is always something. Which something tells you the genre.

ATiming. We keep finding each other at the wrong moment. BAmbition. We both want big lives and they do not match. CThe world. It is not safe to be open about this yet. DEverybody around us has decided this cannot happen.

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Which romantic moment gets you every single time? Be honest. There is one that works on you and you know which.

ASomebody running across a city to say it before midnight. BSomebody in the stands who stayed until the very end. CA look across a crowded room that nobody else catches. DSomebody promising to hold on, and meaning it.

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What would you actually risk for the right person? Every romance asks this. Most people find out far too late.

AA friendship I could never get back. BThe plan I have had for my life since I was a kid. CMy privacy. All of it would become public. DEverything. I would not think about it for long.

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Where are the two of you in ten years? Some love stories are about the meeting. Some are about the staying.

AStill talking. We have never run out of things to say. BBuilding something together, both of us still ambitious. CFinally open about it, after years of being careful. DApart, and I still think about it constantly.

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Which of these sounds most like something you would say? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your romance.

AI would rather talk to you than anybody else, forever. BI am not giving up either of us. We find a way to have both. CThis is mine, and I am not explaining it to anyone. DI would do the whole thing again, even knowing how it ends.

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Roll The Credits Your Romance Is…

Four love stories, four completely different ideas of what it means to be somebody's person. This is the one that matches how you actually fall, and what it would ask of you.

Harry & Sally

You do not fall for strangers. You fall for the person you have already been talking to for years, which is the slowest and by some distance the most durable way anybody has found to do this.

When Harry Met Sally made the case that the best romance is an argument you enjoy, conducted over a decade, by two people refusing to admit what is happening.
You want to be known rather than swept away. Somebody who remembers your worst story is doing better work than anybody arriving with flowers.
The film is unusually honest about timing. These two are wrong for each other repeatedly until suddenly they are not, and neither of them engineered it.
You would still be talking about everything at eighty. That is the entire promise.

Love & Basketball

You want a partner, not an audience. Somebody who wants their own life as badly as you want yours, and who would never ask you to be smaller to make the relationship easier.

This is the rare romance where both people have a real career and the film takes both of them equally seriously.
You would rather be pushed than protected. The right person for you is also a bit of a rival, and that never entirely goes away.
It understands the actual problem in ambitious relationships. Not whether you love each other, but whose turn it is this year.
You would still be competing at forty. That is how you would know it was working.

Heated Rivalry

The intensity was never the problem. The secrecy is. You are drawn to a love that lives entirely in private, and to the particular ache of wanting somebody you are not supposed to want.

Heated Rivalry runs on the oldest engine in romance: two people on opposite sides, meeting in secret, getting far more attached than either of them planned.
You keep your private life genuinely private, and something in you finds hidden things more real than public ones.
The tension is not only between the two of them. It is between what they have and what it would cost either one to say it out loud.
Years of this, and the whole story is really about whether either of them will finally stop hiding.

Titanic

You do not do this cautiously. When it happens for you it is immediate and total and it rearranges everything, and you would not accept a smaller version of it.

Titanic gave us the biggest romance in film history and then made it last about five days, which is precisely the point of it.
You measure love by intensity rather than duration. A few days of the real thing beats decades of something merely comfortable.
The film is not only about the romance. It is about a woman who went on to live an enormous life afterwards because of it.
You would still be telling this story at a hundred years old, and telling it exactly the same way.

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What Is ‘Trespasses’ About?

PBS’ official synopsis of Trespasses, which could also be described as Outlander meets Belfast, reads as follows: “Based on Louise Kennedy’s acclaimed debut novel, Trespasses presents an unforgettable story of forbidden love set against the backdrop of the Troubles in 1970s Belfast. Cushla (Petticrew), a young Catholic schoolteacher, meets and falls for Michael (Cullen) – an older, married Protestant barrister. Despite the suspicions and warnings of her glorious wreck of an alcoholic mother, Gina (Anderson), Cushla and Michael are irresistibly drawn to one another as they’re pulled between love, desire, duty and freedom.”

The hit PBS series was written and created for TV by Ailbhe Keogan, who is also known for her work as a writer on other projects such as Run & Jump, Joyride, and Bad Sisters. Check out new episodes of Trespasses on PBS and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of the series.