If you’ve been anywhere near the MobLand fandom lately, you’ve probably seen the same question pop up again and again: Is MobLand actually a prequel to Ray Donovan? Honestly, I understand why people keep asking. Put Tom Hardy in a room with Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren, throw in a ruthless London crime family, professional…
There is something about MobLand that makes its locations feel almost as important as the people standing inside them. You can watch Tom Hardy’s Harry Da Souza walk into a room and immediately know whether you’re looking at money, danger, or both. The show has that grimy Guy Ritchie quality where a pub, hotel, country…
MobLand Season 2 has arrived, and “I Wanna Be Your Dog” wastes absolutely no time reminding us why this show works so well. The first season already left the Harrigans looking like a dynasty held together by threats, old grudges, and sheer force of personality. Now the cracks are wider, the enemies are smarter, and…
There are crime shows you watch for the guns, the expensive cars, and people in dark coats staring each other down across a restaurant table. Then there are shows like MobLand, where the real entertainment comes from watching a family quietly destroy itself while insisting that everything is perfectly under control. That is what makes…
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,…
There is a particular problem with finishing MobLand: suddenly, a lot of other crime shows feel painfully ordinary. That is not entirely fair, of course. Plenty of gangster dramas are excellent. But MobLand has a very specific combination that is surprisingly difficult to reproduce. You get polished London crime families, professional fixers, old-school mob politics,…
There are crime dramas you watch for the plot, and then there are shows you watch because every room, car, coat, gunshot, and awkward family dinner feels like it cost a small fortune. MobLand is very much the second kind. Paramount+’s British crime drama came out swinging with a cast that almost feels unfair: Tom…