Mobland - 10 episodes of Tom Hardy being "cool" and intimidating

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BiggestKai

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Mobland's an ensemble crime TV series produced by Guy Ritchie starring Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirrin, Paddy Constatine and others.
Two rival families, the Harrigans and the Stevensons turn to war as the only son of Richie Stevenson goes missing and the two families fight over the fentanyl trade.
Hardy plays Harry De Souza, the biggest gary stu to ever gary stu(in a good way, I feel), an enforcer for Conrad Harrigan(Brosnan).

It's guy Ritchie but a bit darker, a lot more serious in tone than The Gentlemen series/Snatch while still maintaining some level of levity. Overall a fun watch.


With the preamble done what the fuck was that finale? All of it. You really needed to keep all of your monologue/speaking scenes to the final episode where everything is supposed to finally go down? You needed to dedicate 1/3 of the episode to sequel teasing? And that bit with the knife, did Guy Ritchie go mad or something?
 
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"oi allo mate, do ya remember dis yeah? yeah? this is your blackmail innit, AKA an unimaginative plot device to make the story go the way i want innit?!"

i like Guy Richie especially his early stuff, but i stopped watching this after episode 6
all of the "oh but you didnt know about this" shit that happens off screen and never mentioned is too much and with terrible exposition
i am probably alone in this, it just felt lazy and completely took me out of the show
i am aware how common blackmail is, im not saying it doesnt happen or that it doesnt happen often
but when you need to solve a problem in a TV show just coming up with a "i have blackmail on you" out of NOWHERE is not how it should be done
its like he couldnt figure out a problem he created in his own story so he dropped the ball

i know it sounds stupid but the blackmail thing was just a step too far, it was a level of lazy that i could not look past
there were many steps
but pulling "blackmail" out of your ass to solve a characters problem is SO lazy
 
Felt very similarly to this as I did Dope Thief. Perhaps that sounds like a superficial comparison at first, because plot-wise the only thing the two shows really have in common with each other is the illegal drug trade, and aesthetically and thematically they're completely different. But despite that, interestingly enough they seem to have the same problem with wonky, uneven pacing. First few episodes were very interesting and kept me engrossed, and at some point mid-way through the season it just felt like it lost all forward momentum. They both start off strong, and there's nothing "bad" about the later episodes, but with both shows they never feel like they successfully delivered on the build-up of the first few episodes.
 
Watched the first three episodes, didn't know there are more out, gonna catch up with the rest tomorrow. It's an okay show, doesn't bring anything new to the table but i like crime shows and i like Guy Ritchie films so it's good enough for me. Brosnan is great in it, Hardy is Hardy, as always. Helen Mirren and the kid who's playing the psycho grandson feel incredibly miscast. Paddy Considine feels wasted in his role, he was fucking great in Dead Man's Shoes and his film Tyrannosaur is also well worth a watch.
BiggestKai said:
a lot more serious in tone
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BiggestKai said:
the biggest gary stu to ever gary stu
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I agree to that.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Do they actually show anyone related to it in a positive way? It's even worse than coke in its effect.
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They don't really show anything on the criminal side besides Harry doing fixer shit, ie blackmail and investigations and the gang related assassination every other episode.
The Feline Solution 2 said:
the kid who's playing the psycho grandson feel incredibly miscast. Paddy Considine feels wasted in his role, he was fucking great in Dead Man's Shoes and his film Tyrannosaur is also well worth a watch.
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Eddie(psycho kid) just feels like a little shit that no one gives a spanking the entire series and his role in the last episode is the most what the hell is this crap to exist. Without spoiling much imagine if you were watching a tv series about the origins of The Joker and at the finale he discovers something that'll finally put him over the edge, goes to confront the person responsible for that and is about to kill them before he gets punched by a woman and stumbles out of scene, and literally out of the episode since he never appears afterwards with no one even going "whatever happened to that guy"?

Ditto with Kevin(Considine). They sideline him for a plot that basically puts him in the same role as Jimmy in Kin, he looks depressed and sad the entire time and has the whole "you don't respect me, my woife, or my brother/friend" arc that you think was resolved by episode 9 but the final keeps having him go on monologues related to it.
 
BiggestKai said:
Ditto with Kevin(Considine). They sideline him for a plot that basically puts him in the same role as Jimmy in Kin
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seen this one?
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this is the show that many remember as using the rise of the Los Zetas as inspiration for one of the crime groups
thats just 1 aspect of it, multiple organisations involved, but it is very good
 
GradeAGobbleDeeGook said:
seen this one?
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this is the show that many remember as using the rise of the Los Zetas as inspiration for one of the crime groups
thats just 1 aspect of it, multiple organisations involved, but it is very good
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I haven't actually, I tried a couple of episodes of an Italian series called Gamorrah but if I'm being honest it's not grabbing me and have been watching the pure slop that is Mayor of Kingstown.
 
BiggestKai said:
I haven't actually, I tried a couple of episodes of an Italian series called Gamorrah but if I'm being honest it's not grabbing me and have been watching the pure slop that is Mayor of Kingstown.
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ZZZ was made by the same creators as Gamorrah but is more recent and made for English audiences, and is just 1 season
Gamorrah is very good but you have to stick with it and its a bit much keeping up with everything
 
BiggestKai said:
I haven't actually, I tried a couple of episodes of an Italian series called Gamorrah but if I'm being honest it's not grabbing me and have been watching the pure slop that is Mayor of Kingstown.
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I recently rewatched the entire series of Gomorra plus the accompanying movie (L'immortale), i think it's the best crime show ever made, next to BCS. Gives the rawest look on crime in Naples/Italy, everyone is a huge cunt and everyone is constantly fucking everyone else over. I shill it to pretty much anyone. How the show portrays how the System operates is as realistic as a crime show can get, apart from how some characters have ridiculous plot armor (especially Ciro, he's not called l'Immortale for nothing). The on-location shooting puts The Wire to shame. Show needs to be watched in it's original language, i caught one episode way back when, dubbed in my native language, and it was atrocious, completely robs the show of its character.

Caveat to the above is that i am part italian so i might be biased towards an italian-made show. Especially one as good as this one, seeing how Italy's show output is mostly dogshit (see Suburra, see Mare Fuori).
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ZZZ was made by the same creators as Gamorrah but is more recent and made for English audiences, and is just 1 season
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I'm gonna check that one out, haven't even heard about it before.

Edit: Nevermind, i'm an idiot. I have watched the first two episodes when it came out, it's based on another Saviano book which i also read and which i had read shortly before watching that show. Show didn't catch me but i might try watching it again as i can remember pretty much nothing from it or the book.
 
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The Feline Solution 2 said:
I'm gonna check that one out, haven't even heard about it before.

Edit: Nevermind, i'm an idiot. I have watched the first two episodes when it came out, it's based on another Saviano book which i also read and which i had read shortly before watching that show. Show didn't catch me but i might try watching it again as i can remember pretty much nothing from it or the book.
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i had it in my "to watch" folder for years until about 2 years ago
it didnt grab me either but i saw a clip on a youtube short and decided i had to give it another go
 
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