MobLand

Show did an excellent job of establishing characters and what their individual idiosyncrasies are. A mob story but character driven. It reminded me of the Sopranos that way. The characters are just as interesting as the plot lines. What happened in the last few episodes was what happens to a lot of shows that start strong, the writers just start throwing too much on top of the characters. They become inconsistent with the exception of Harry. The writers amp up the brutality to wear the violence becomes disproportionately too much. It is not lost on me that a mob story will have violence. What sometimes happens and I think what happened with this show, is that the characters become more erratic and more violent but at the same time they're asked to plot and think and connive their way towards their own ends. In a 10 episode season, some characters are not even recognizable from where they were built to where they wind up. That's not necessarily character evolution. It felt like a lot of the characters were lobotomized. Plot devices are inserted in a heavy-handed way to make this one a good guy and this one a bad guy. I don't feel like we were treated very intelligently as the season moved along. There was a lot of potential here, and as some reviewers have written, the show really lost its way.

OK worth watching but nothing that you haven't seen before. But how on earth did Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren be allowed to get away with those accents?? Some of the worst and insulting attempts I've ever heard and Brosnan is actually Irish!! Didn't anyone dare tell them? Brosnan is not really known for his acting skills just watch his masterpiece Taffin. But I expect more from Dame Helen!! Tom Hardy is his usual mumbley self Paddy Considne is very good as usual. Overall worth a watch if you like the Guy Ritchie gangster stuff but not as good as The Gentleman and not a patch on Lock,stock or Snatch.

The series Mobland starts off strong and is carried by Tom Hardy. The other actors range from decent to completely over-the-top - especially Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren, who are genuinely hard to watch.

The show lacks an overarching storyline, instead stringing together one narrative fragment after another, often feeling more like a soap opera than an actual mafia series. Many scenes are marked by illogical decisions. All in all, it's nowhere near masterpieces like The Sopranos.

It's a show you can easily binge in one or two days, have a good time with, and completely forget about four weeks later. Without Tom Hardy, it would be a 5 out of 10.

The casting is spot on, with Mirren and Brosnan as a nasty mob boss couple, the Harrigans, who ignite the screen like dynamite ready to blow away your senses with their evil doings. If that doesn't put the fear in you, then there is the fixer, Harry Da Souza (played by the cool cold steel talents of Tom Hardy), who is also a loving husband and father, and in between carries out dirty work for the mob family. A small situation gets out of hand, and it is going to get very ugly. So with Guy Ritchie directing the first episode and setting the tone, you know it is going to be a tense bloodbath with anything goes...

I've been looking forward to Mobland ever since I first heard about it. First of all, I'm a huge Tom Hardy fan and would watch him in anything. He really is one of the best and most underrated actors of his generation. On top of that I'm also a Guy Ritchie fan and watch anything he does. So you can that the two of them together would give me huge expectations and Mobland not only met those expectations but has surpassed them in every way. This is as an A-list cast as you're going to get for a tv show with Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, etc all starring and Ritchie as the creator. I'll be shocked if this show and its cast isn't nominated for every major award come award season, especially Hardy. The only bad thing about the show is all the episodes aren't released at the same time so we can binge it, we have to way wait a week between shows and it's so good you want to watch the next episode as soon as possible.