Richard Armitage Gets Hot and Heavy In the Trailer for Racy Netflix Thriller 'Obsession'

Though actor Richard Armitage is an almost universally beloved figure among Anglophiles (North and South is an absolutely perfect period drama and we should say so!), in the past few years he hasn't been on our screens all that much. Sure he's done a ton of voice work for Netflix's animated series Castlevania, a fairly incredible filmed stage version of Anton Chekov's Uncle Vanya, a couple of mid-range TV series (The Stranger and Stay Close), and that's about it.

So, imagine our surprise (and delight!) when Netflix dropped a trailer for its upcoming racy limited series Obsession, and lo and behold, Armitage is back on our screens and doing what he does best: Smoldering intensely.

A contemporary adaptation of Josephine Hart's novella Damage, Armitage stars as talented surgeon William Farrow whose attraction to his son's fiancee Anna Barton (Peaky Blinders' Charlie Murphy) quickly spirals into a dangerous, all-consuming obsession that has devastating consequences for the whole family. The four-part series is described as an "erotic thriller", which is usually an industry code phrase that means  "steamy" and/or "full of sex," an assumption that the Netflix thriller more than confirms. (All the Richard Armitage fangirls' dreams are coming true today is what I'm saying.)