Gangs of London 2 (Sky Atlantic) amounts to an urban retread of Frozen Planet 2. In David Attenborough’s series, the soon-to-be-eviscerated quake in terror, be they lemmings cowering from arctic foxes or seals hyperventilating on ice floes broken up by synchronised killer whales after fresh meat.
In the second series of Gangs of London, ultraviolence is equally omnipresent, amoral predation the law of this urban jungle. The body count of psychopathic gangsters rises faster than your energy bills. A drug thug is getting quietly strangled when we notice one eye swelling. The camera zooms in just as it explodes. I’d like to thank all the creatives involved for making that scene pop.
