The Savant Season 1 Episode Count Revealed: Here’s When Every Episode Drops

If you are trying to plan your watch for The Savant, here is the quick version: it is a tight, eight-part Apple TV+ thriller with Jessica Chastain in undercover mode, rolling out weekly after a two-episode opener. Details below.

The basics

• Season 1 is 8 episodes total.
• The first two episodes premiere together, then it switches to one episode a week.
• New episodes land on Thursday or Friday depending on where you live. Yes, that Thursday/Friday split is one of those time-zone release quirks Apple loves.
• This is a crime-thriller miniseries based on journalist Andrea Stanley's 2019 Cosmopolitan feature, 'Is It Possible to Stop a Mass Shooting Before It Happens?'
• Jessica Chastain leads the cast as Jodi Goodwin, aka 'The Savant.' Also in the mix: Nnamdi Asomugha, Pablo Schreiber, and Cole Doman.
• Created by Melissa James Gibson, who is also the showrunner and an executive producer. Inside baseball, but worth noting: the creator-showrunner combo usually means a steady creative voice across the season.
• Where to watch: Apple TV+. There is a free trial if you have not used it yet, and the service is also where you will find The Morning Show, Severance, Chief of War, Slow Horses, and Your Friends & Neighbors.

What the show is actually about

The Savant follows a covert investigator who embeds herself inside online hate communities to spot and disrupt would-be violent extremists before they act. It is pitched as a thriller, but the premise leans straight into the ugly corners of the internet and the real-world stakes that come with them. Chastain playing someone who weaponizes anonymity to stop mass violence is the hook — and the 'savant' moniker comes from the character's reputation as a top-secret operator.

'A top-secret undercover investigator known as the Savant infiltrates online hate groups to take down the most violent extremists in the United States.'

Release rhythm, clarified

Apple is doing the now-standard streaming rollout: a two-episode drop to start, then weekly installments until all eight are out. If your app says Thursday and your friend swears it is Friday, you are both right — it is just the platform staggering launch times by region.