The Gentlemen season 1
I had mixed feelings with Guy Ritchie's 2019 flick The Gentlemen so when news came that he had a TV series of the same name on Netflix, I wasn't all that compelled to see what it was about. However, being locked in at a decent monthly subscription and wanting to get some value out of it, I thought I might give season one of The Gentlemen a spin with the first episode and, a few weeks later, I finished it just as season two approaches. The story takes a lot of familiar beats from the film with the aristocracy melting in with working class criminals to do some dodgy deals but seems to be its own thing entirely, or at least for this season. Theo James' UN officer is called back home after the death of his wealthy father and is put in charge of the estate as the older brother isn't deemed fit to keep things afloat. It's here that James' Edward Horniman (nicknamed The Duke) learns that his father was involved with growing drugs right beneath their grounds and he...
