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JIMMY KEENE, a hotshot high-school football star and son of a respected police officer, seemed to have a promising future ahead of him. But Jimmy has gone off the rails, getting involved in drug dealing and finding himself out of his depth in the Chicago underworld. When the cops catch up with him and he’s sentenced to a long stretch inside, Jimmy has hit rock bottom. But then, the prosecutor offers Jimmy a chance at redemption. All he needs to do is transfer to a maximum-security jail for the criminal insane, befriend suspected serial killer Larry Hall, and get him to confess. It sounds like the set-up for a fantastical Hollywood tale, but what’s remarkable about Apple’s classy new prison thriller is that it’s all true; the six-part series is based on Keene’s memoir, In With The Devil, adapted by the bestselling crime writer Dennis Lehane. Rocketman’s Taron Egerton (right) stars as the fallen idol faced with an impossible dilemma, while the first-rate supporting cast includes the late Ray Liotta as Jimmy’s father, and Greg Kinnear as the detective trying to bring Hall to justice.