Paramount+ renews Tom Hardy-Pierce Brosnan series 'MobLand' for second season
Paramount+ has renewed the gangster series MobLand for a second season. The streamer announced the news with posters that confirm Tom Hardy's return along with Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren, hinting that the cliffhanger ending of Season 1 will be explained in the new season.
Ronan Bennett, creator of the recent series version of The Day of the Jackal, is behind the conception, with Guy Ritchie directing a couple of episodes. The first season streamed on Paramount+ on March 30 and JioHotstar (in India) on March 31.
The series revolves around a powerful crime family called The Harrigans, with Brosnan and Mirren as its ruling heads, while Hardy played their steadfastly loyal enforcer. In its review, THE WEEK wrote: "Through its fast-paced, 10-episode span, the show moves like a race-against-the-clock thriller with multiple double crosses happening quicker than you can count, explosions and bloody shootouts, all the while some of its secondary and tertiary characters struggle to make sense of what's happening around them and make a few wrong choices because they want to make the idea of living in a f*ed up family more palatable. The unseen internal explosions are more troubling than the ones planted inside cars and buildings. Let's say that in terms of their overall messed-upness, the Harrigans could give tough competition to the Lannisters and Baratheons."
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The series also reunited Ritchie with Hardy after their last collaboration in 2008's gangster comedy RocknRolla, in which Hardy co-starred with Gerard Butler and Idris Elba before they all went on to become bigger stars.
Ritchie is one of the directors of the series alongside three other directors who have experience directing acclaimed shows: Anthony Byrne ("Peaky Blinders"), Lawrence Gough ("Doctor Who"), and Daniel Syrkin ("Tehran").
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