MobLand sets the tone right away and makes good use of the diverse cast. Good humor, hard action, exactly what you expect from Guy Ritchie. Recently I had the chance to attend the premiere of the new series by Guy Ritchie who you undoubtedly know from films such as Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Sherlock Holmes and from the series The Gentleman. The premiere was in the brand new luxurious Rosewood hotel in Amsterdam which was an experience in itself. The Rosewood hotel used to be the Palace of Justice and therefore the perfect setting for the crime series Mobland.
Mobland is about the Harrigan family, a British criminal family in which (almost) everyone has made a career of crime. Drug dealing and extortion are the most normal thing in the world. It is also inevitable that there is a lot of conflict with competing criminal families and the first episode of Mobland gives a good foretaste of that.
In the first episode you are introduced to different members of the Harrigan family. Everyone plays a different role within the family. One dares to make strategic choices easily, the other is very cautious and quickly foresees problems or playing each other against each other is someone else's expertise.
Guy Ritchie productions always have a strong cast and Mobland is no exception. For example, certain characters from the Harrigan family are played by Pierce Brosnan, Tom Hardy and Oscar winner Helen Mirren. I found Tom Hardy and Helen Mirren particularly convincing, Pierce Brosnan was a bit less strong. From what I was able to see in the first episode, it looks like Mobland will be pure enjoyment. Strong dialogues, hard action and above all pure entertainment. This sounds like a standard recipe for a Guy Ritchie production, but he still manages to make something different of it and the tone is different from, for example, The Gentleman, Guy Ritchie's most recent other production.
[quote-7882]The first season consists of ten episodes, of which a new episode appears weekly on SkyShowtime. I am very curious about what the remaining nine episodes will bring us. The first episode has made me very enthusiastic in any case. Even when watching the first episode with many other guests in the same room of the Rosewood hotel, I was completely into it. It is clear that Mobland knows how to grab you.
In short: the first episode of Mobland is a good start to a hopefully strong and entertaining series. It has a good cast, contains strong dialogues and has enough action and entertainment. The story knows how to grab you and I am very curious about the rest of the season.
Based on the above, the first episode of Mobland gets a well-deserved 8.5.
About the writer, Karzal
Mike (1995) has been a member of MySeries since 2016 and is mainly active on the English version of the site. Since 2018, he has been actively translating news articles, columns, reviews and basically everything that ends up on the Dutch site. The original articles, columns and reviews were actually written by others. During the week Mike can be found at IKEA, where he is a national systems specialist and occasionally also in the classroom to teach an English lesson. In addition, Mike logically enjoys watching series and has actually been spoon-fed this from an early age. The genre doesn't matter, there is a place for everything in the otherwise busy life.
