MobLand

This show is one of those shows, that if never existed, people would still feel as if they have seen it. That is how many times a thing such as this has already been seen, and truth to be told, previously done in quite better ways and versions of itself..

Not an awful show, other than dreadful irish accents and some quite lousy, convenient writing, especially near and by the end, it is not bad, only issue, that is becoming bigger and bigger issue lately, is that it is generic, in instances painfully, borderline slop.

Pierce Brosnan more and more looks and sounds, shortly said resembles, that hypothetical "thing" where good old Jean-Luc Picard, in his old days 'Picard' starts a gangster organisation in his vineyard back in France, while also pretending to be Irish (most funny part is that Pierce was born in Ireland), and Tom Hardy is way better "Data" than that (maybe Taboo should be renewed)..

Shows like this are the product of those who don't know when the time to stop has come, we have seen this pattern past decade over and over again with creators who peaked in their creativity and skill a long time ago, now attempting to reach those peaks again, while continuing Faded Creativity Circus..

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.

Tom Hardy. That's it.

Great to see him back in something substantial after years wasting his talent in those godawful super hero films or turgid biker movies.

Anyway, dubious accents from Mirren and Brosnan notwithstanding, this is very good stuff so far. Slow burn sure, but I'm loving the controlled menace from Hardy - his understated anti-hero is like comfort food.

Good story telling and nice performances from Paddy and others. And I'm glad the Guy Ritchie signature style is dialled back.

Really looking forward to future eps.

Every director and producer out there, hire Tom Hardy, please. He's so damn good.

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.

There's way too much of these types of shows now. In an ideal world they would take the best elements of all these and put them together to make a brilliant series.

There's so many holes in the plot and so many unbelievable things happening considering the prestige of the family and their enterprise. If it wasn't for Tom Hardy I may have switched off before the end.

I was stunned to find out the Pierce Brosnan was Irish, that accent is wild. Same as Helen Mirren and her ridiculous character.

Too much of this stuff is designed for the yanks, the Cotswolds isn't around the corner from London.