A new London-set crime show from Guy Ritchie and Top Boy writer Ronan Bennett sounds like a match made in gangland TV heaven – the gun-toting, geezer-iffic equivalent of Marvel’s The Avengers, with a lot less spandex and a great many more c-words flying about.
MobLand certainly has all the raw materials. They include Tom Hardy as a brutal underworld enforcer and Pierce Brosnan as a grizzled London-Irish godfather with a Quiet Man accent and a hairstyle that can’t decide whether it is combover or quiff. Ten minutes in, there’s already been a blizzard of swearing, a gory machine gun execution and a blood-streaked romp through a sex club soundtracked by The Prodigy’s “Firestarter”. That’s a full bingo card and the credits have hardly rolled.
