'Mobland' from the maestro

ON SHOWMAX: DIRECTOR GUY RITCHIE OWNS LONDON GANGSTER UNDERGROUND ON FILM

- Hein Kaiser

Whenever a new Guy Ritchie film or series lands, it’s an event.

Few directors have made the London gangster underground their stock-in-trade so successfully, and so utterly brutal and as sardonic as this director. Mobland is available on Showmax and ranks among the best shows of the year. It’s that bingeworthy.

We meet underground London in today’s milieu. Harry Da Souza, played by Tom Hardy, is the fixer for Irish mobster family the Harrigans, with their godfather Conrad cruelly animated by Pierce Brosnan.

Maeve, his wife, is his dark passenger, conscience (if she has such a thing) and shoulder whisperer. She’s a strategist that massages Conrad’s brutality deftly and dangerously.

Harry fixes the family’s stuff ups, but when Harrigan grandson Eddie stabs a man in a club for no reason, all hell breaks loose.

Then, when it turns out that rival gang the Stevensons’ son Tommy was with Eddie and then went missing, it hits the fan, again.