Is There a Season 2 of The Gentlemen? Release Date, Cast, and Plot Rumors
There are some shows you watch, enjoy, and then move on from. The Gentlemen was never going to be one of those shows. Guy Ritchie’s Netflix crime series arrived in March 2024 with expensive suits, filthy money, eccentric criminals, aristocratic family drama, and enough weed to make half of the British countryside look suspicious. By the time the first season ended, I was already wondering how long Netflix would make us wait for more.
Now we finally have an answer: The Gentlemen Season 2 is happening, and it has an official Netflix release date of September 3, 2026.
That is obviously fantastic news, but what really interests me isn’t simply getting another eight episodes. Season 1 ended with Eddie Horniman discovering something rather uncomfortable about himself. The man who spent most of the story trying to escape the criminal business eventually stopped running from it. Worse — or perhaps better, depending on how you look at it — he turned out to be pretty good at the whole ruthless-underworld-boss thing.
And that’s exactly where Season 2 becomes interesting.
When Does The Gentlemen Season 2 Come Out?
Netflix officially renewed The Gentlemen in August 2024, only a few months after the first season became one of the platform’s biggest hits.
The second season is scheduled to premiere on September 3, 2026, with eight episodes planned, keeping the same episode count as Season 1.
Production moved forward in the United Kingdom before eventually expanding the story beyond the familiar English countryside. Filming began around May 2025 and continued through the following production period, with the team spending considerable time preparing the next chapter of Eddie and Susie’s increasingly dangerous business.
Honestly, the long gap between seasons doesn’t bother me nearly as much as it probably should. If the result is another season with the visual personality of the first one, I’ll take the wait.
The Gentlemen works because it doesn’t feel like generic Netflix crime television. It has a very specific personality. The editing is aggressive, the characters are larger than life, the dialogue can turn from polite aristocratic conversation into a threat within seconds, and Guy Ritchie’s sense of humor is all over the place.
I’d rather get eight episodes that understand that identity than twelve episodes that feel like somebody copied the formula and removed the personality.
Eddie Horniman Has Become the Problem
The biggest reason I’m excited for Season 2 isn’t the new locations or even the new villains.
It’s Eddie.
When we first meet Captain Edward “Eddie” Horniman, he is essentially the straight man trapped inside an increasingly ridiculous criminal circus. He’s trying to protect his family, deal with his inherited title, and understand why his father’s estate happens to be sitting on top of a gigantic cannabis operation.
By the finale, that version of Eddie is basically gone.
Instead of walking away from the business, Eddie chooses to embrace it. He joins forces with Susie Glass and helps take control of the empire after defeating Stanley Johnston’s plans.
That decision changes the entire premise of the series.
Season 1 was about Eddie discovering the criminal world.
Season 2 can be about Eddie becoming part of it.
That’s a much darker proposition.
The first season constantly played with the idea that Eddie was different from the people around him. He had principles. He had discipline. He had a military background. He wasn’t supposed to be a gangster.
But power has a funny way of exposing what people are capable of.
And Eddie now has power.
Eddie and Susie: Partners, Friends, or Future Enemies?
Let’s talk about the relationship everybody will be watching.
Eddie and Susie have chemistry. Not the predictable romantic kind where two characters stare at each other for six episodes before finally kissing. Their connection is much more interesting because they genuinely need each other while never completely trusting each other.
Theo James and Kaya Scodelario play that tension extremely well.
Eddie brings organization, authority, and a growing appetite for control. Susie understands the criminal world in a way Eddie never could. She’s calculating, connected, emotionally guarded, and always seems to know more than she’s willing to say.
That makes them a fantastic partnership.
It also makes them a disaster waiting to happen.
The Season 2 setup makes the possibility of betrayal almost impossible to ignore. They’re expanding the empire, dealing with new criminals, and operating in unfamiliar territory. Add Bobby Glass making questionable decisions from prison, and suddenly Eddie and Susie have several reasons to start looking over their shoulders.
Personally, I don’t expect their partnership to collapse immediately.
I actually think the more interesting route would be for them to become even closer before something tears them apart.
That would hurt more.
Season 2 Moves From Britain to Italy
One of the biggest changes is the location.
Season 1 was deeply connected to the English countryside, Halstead Manor, old money, country estates, and the bizarre contrast between aristocratic tradition and organized crime.
Season 2 is going international, with the story moving into the criminal networks surrounding Italy’s Lake Maggiore region.
That opens the door to a completely different atmosphere.
And I’m glad they’re doing it.
The first season had a wonderfully British identity, but repeating the same formula around the same manor forever would eventually become predictable. Taking Eddie and Susie abroad gives Guy Ritchie room to introduce new criminal organizations, new rivalries, new visual styles, and a fresh collection of characters who have absolutely no reason to respect an English duke with a criminal empire.
The Season 2 Cast Is Packed
Theo James returns as Eddie Horniman, now far more comfortable in his role as the criminal mastermind behind the family business.
Kaya Scodelario is also back as Susie Glass, and I suspect she’ll be even more dangerous this time around.
Several familiar faces are returning as well:
- Daniel Ings as Freddy Horniman, Eddie’s spectacularly chaotic older brother.
- Ray Winstone as Bobby Glass, the intimidating patriarch whose influence still hangs over the entire operation.
- Vinnie Jones as Geoff Seacombe, the loyal and surprisingly formidable groundskeeper of Halstead Manor.
- Joely Richardson as Lady Sabrina, Eddie and Freddy’s mother.
- Giancarlo Esposito as Stanley Johnston.
- Michael Vu as Jimmy, the lovable cannabis-growing expert who somehow remains one of the strangest people in this entire criminal ecosystem.
But the newcomers are what really have my attention.
Michele Morrone Could Be a Serious Problem
One of the most interesting additions is Michele Morrone, who joins the cast as Cico Maldini.
Cico operates as an underworld fixer around Lake Maggiore, and everything about the character screams trouble.
Morrone is an especially interesting choice because he can play polished and intimidating at the same time. That’s exactly the kind of presence this show needs when Eddie and Susie leave their comfortable British territory.
The new cast also includes Hugh Bonneville, Benjamin Clementine, Benedetta Porcaroli, Sergio Castellitto, Maya Jama, and professional boxer Chris Eubank Jr.
That’s a ridiculous collection of personalities for one season, which is precisely why I’m curious to see who survives long enough to become important.
Bobby Glass May Be the Wild Card
The official Season 2 setup introduces another problem: Bobby Glass is still pulling strings.
There’s reportedly a one-year time jump, meaning Eddie and Susie have had time to establish themselves as co-rulers of the expanding operation.
But Bobby’s decisions from prison are becoming increasingly questionable.
That creates an excellent conflict because Eddie and Susie can’t simply treat him like an ordinary rival. He’s the man whose empire they’re running in the first place.
If they decide Bobby has become a liability, what happens next?
Do they remove him?
Do they manipulate him?
Or do they discover that the imprisoned Bobby is still several steps ahead of them?
I wouldn’t bet against Ray Winstone’s character just yet.
What I Think Season 2 Is Really About
The first season was surprisingly good at hiding its darker ideas underneath the jokes.
For me, the central question wasn’t really whether Eddie could save his family’s estate. It was whether he would remain the person he believed himself to be after being exposed to money, violence, and power.
He didn’t.
That’s why Season 2 has so much potential.
Eddie no longer needs convincing. He’s already chosen the life.
Now we get to see what that choice costs him.
I expect the second season to push him further away from the reluctant aristocrat we met in Episode 1. He has tasted control, and people like Eddie don’t usually give that up willingly.
The real danger is that he may eventually become exactly the kind of person he once wanted to destroy.
My Biggest Season 2 Predictions
If I had to put a few predictions on the table before watching the new episodes, these would be my bets:
- Eddie and Susie will become more powerful before their relationship starts falling apart.
- The Italian criminal world will introduce a rival who doesn’t care about Eddie’s title or British connections.
- Bobby Glass will remain far more influential than Eddie expects.
- Freddy will somehow create an enormous problem while accidentally helping solve another one.
- Eddie will cross a moral line that Season 1 would have considered unthinkable.
That final one feels especially likely.
Because that’s the story I want from The Gentlemen.
Not another adventure where Eddie survives a bunch of gangsters and returns home wearing an expensive suit.
I want to see what happens when the gentleman becomes the gangster.
Why I’m Actually Excited for The Gentlemen Season 2
There is always a risk with a successful first season. The sequel can become a louder, bigger, more expensive version of the same thing without understanding why people liked the original.
I’m not particularly worried about that here.
Guy Ritchie still has his fingerprints all over the project, and the move to Italy gives the series an opportunity to evolve instead of simply repeating itself. The returning cast is strong, the new additions are intriguing, and the central relationship between Eddie and Susie has plenty of unresolved tension.
Most importantly, the characters have somewhere to go.
Eddie isn’t the same man anymore. Susie has even more reasons to distrust him. Bobby Glass remains a dangerous presence. And now they’re taking their empire into territory where their reputation doesn’t necessarily mean anything.
That is a much more interesting setup than simply asking, “Can Eddie run the business?”
The better question is:
How far will Eddie go to keep it?
The Gentlemen Season 2 arrives on Netflix on September 3, 2026, and if the series manages to preserve that strange mixture of British gangster brutality, aristocratic absurdity, slick action, and genuinely funny character work, I suspect the second season could be even more entertaining than the first.
I’m just hoping Eddie doesn’t become too good at this.
Because watching him lose control of the empire would be fun.
Watching him realize he actually wants it would be much, much better.
