MobLand Season 2 doesn’t just raise the stakes. It starts tearing the entire board apart. If you came into the second season expecting another stylish London gangster story with Tom Hardy looking exhausted while everyone around him makes terrible decisions, well… you weren’t wrong. But the scale of the violence has changed, and so has…
MobLand never pretended that the Harrigan family was healthy. These people were always one bad conversation away from someone getting threatened, betrayed, or buried. Still, I wasn’t prepared for just how vicious the Season 1 finale would become. The tenth episode, Beggars Banquet, doesn’t simply wrap up the Harrigans’ war with the Stevensons. It takes…
There is something about a good British gangster story that still gets under my skin. Maybe it is the clipped dialogue, the uncomfortable silences, the sense that violence can erupt in the middle of an otherwise ordinary conversation. I grew up watching crime films and television where a raised eyebrow could mean more than an…
There are crime shows you watch, and then there are crime shows that make you sit there staring at the screen thinking, “Well, that family is completely screwed.” MobLand belongs firmly in the second category. The first season hooked viewers with its mix of London gang politics, family dysfunction, sudden violence and the kind of…
There is something wonderfully old-school about MobLand. In an era when every crime series seems desperate to reinvent the genre, this one walks into the room wearing a sharp suit, carrying a bad attitude, and reminding you that sometimes all you really need is a dangerous family, a few loaded guns, and people who absolutely…
There are crime shows you watch once and move on from, and then there are shows like MobLand that somehow make you want to sit down with friends afterward and argue about who is going to betray whom first. That was the fun of the first season. Nobody felt completely safe, nobody seemed completely honest,…
If you are looking for Outlander: Blood of My Blood Season 2 in the United States, there is one answer that matters more than all the others: Starz. The prequel is staying inside the Starz ecosystem, and that means Netflix, Disney+, and the standard versions of Hulu are not going to suddenly rescue you when…
There is something slightly dangerous about getting invested in an Outlander story. You tell yourself you’re here for the romance, maybe the history, maybe the time travel. Then suddenly you’re tracking release dates, arguing about family connections on Reddit at two in the morning, and wondering whether a set of standing stones is ever going…
There is something especially exciting about watching an Outlander story return to Scotland. The landscapes, the old estates, the family conflicts, the romance, and, of course, the time travel all come with a particular atmosphere that is difficult for another series to reproduce. Now Outlander: Blood of My Blood is getting ready to continue that…
There are two kinds of Harry Potter fans right now. There are the people who hear “HBO reboot” and immediately start comparing every casting announcement with the original movies, and then there are those who are genuinely curious about what the books might look like if nobody had to squeeze them into two-and-a-half-hour chunks. I’m…
There is something almost unfair about being the next actress to play Hermione Granger. Emma Watson’s version of the character has been sitting in the heads of millions of Harry Potter fans for years. For a lot of people, Hermione simply is Emma Watson: the bushy hair, the raised eyebrow, the rapid-fire explanations, the books,…
There are some casting announcements that feel like ordinary entertainment news, and then there are casting announcements that make an entire fandom stop what it is doing. Dominic McLaughlin becoming Harry Potter is very much the second kind. I’ll admit it: I was skeptical when HBO decided to remake Harry Potter. The original movies are…