Image via Quejaytee / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0). Anthony Mackie with fans at the 2025 Zurich Film Festival.
Apple TV has a new heist drama for the holidays, and it starts tonight. 12 12 12 drops its first two episodes on Friday, 13 November, but like most Apple TV shows they land early, at 9 p.m. ET tonight.
The title is the whole idea. Each episode cuts between three timelines of one job: the 12 months of planning, the 12 hours of the heist, and the 12 days after it. At the centre is a €1 billion raid on a bank vault buried deep under the streets of Zurich.
Two men on opposite sides of the same job
Anthony Mackie plays Jack Strickland, a disgraced FBI agent with a past heist hanging over him. Jamie Dornan plays Paul Galvin, an American career criminal who wants out of the life and gets pulled back in for one more job. They spend the season playing cat and mouse across Europe, and the show is just as interested in the planning and the fallout as it is in the robbery itself.
Paul is not working alone. His older brother Bobby, played by Jack Kesy, is part of the crew, and the brothers' strained relationship sits at the heart of the story. The rest of the team and the people chasing them fill out a cast that mixes familiar faces with newer names.
| Actor | Character |
|---|---|
| Anthony Mackie | Jack Strickland, disgraced FBI agent |
| Jamie Dornan | Paul Galvin, career criminal |
| Jack Kesy | Bobby Galvin, Paul's older brother |
| Agathe Rousselle | Severine |
| Sallie Harmsen | Lena |
| José Garcia | Serge Descoteaux |
| Ólafur Darri Ólafsson | Blasius Holtz |
| Kali Reis | Ensemble cast |
| Patrick Fabian | Ensemble cast |
The people behind it
Dudi Appleton and Jim Keeble created the series and serve as executive producers. Kari Skogland directed the pilot and several more episodes. She has worked with Mackie before, directing episodes of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Ellen Kuras and Takeshi Fukunaga also direct episodes this season.
Mackie and Dornan are executive producers on the show as well as its two leads. The series is produced by Anonymous Content and Skydance Television. It is also a reunion of sorts: the two stars last shared the screen in the 2019 science-fiction film Synchronic. This time they are on opposite sides of the law.
For Dornan, the show is the latest step in a busy run. His Jamie Dornan biography runs through the serious-actor rebuild that followed Fifty Shades, from Belfast and The Tourist to this lead role and his turn as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum.
Episode guide: every date and title
Season 1 has eight episodes. The first two arrive together, then one lands each Friday until the finale on Christmas Day.
| Episode | Title | Out on Apple TV |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | All for a F**king Betamax, Dad | Friday 13 November |
| 2 | I Want My Halo Back | Friday 13 November |
| 3 | Einfach Obergeil | Friday 20 November |
| 4 | That's How You Make a Boy Baby | Friday 27 November |
| 5 | One for the Money, Two for the Show | Friday 4 December |
| 6 | I Know Who You Are | Friday 11 December |
| 7 | You're One of Us, Maybe You Always Were | Friday 18 December |
| 8 | The Banks Must Pay | Friday 25 December |
Each episode is also likely to appear from 9 p.m. ET the night before its listed Friday date, which is how Apple TV usually releases its shows.
How to watch
12 12 12 is an Apple TV original, so you need a subscription to watch it. New subscribers get a seven-day free trial. You can also add Apple TV through Prime Video if you would rather watch inside that app.
Apple has another big title on the way this month too. The Way of the Warrior Kid trailer promises a Chris Pratt film about a Navy SEAL uncle and his nephew, out on 25 November. Between the two, Apple TV has the holiday season covered.
With a Christmas Day finale, 12 12 12 is built to run right through the holidays. The heist is the hook, but the real test is whether the three-timeline trick holds up for eight weeks.
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