Dame Helen Mirren is so happy to be a mob wife. And she’s not just any mob wife. She’s a Guy Ritchie mob wife, in a series written by Top Boy creator Ronan Bennett, with Pierce Brosnan as her husband, Tom Hardy as her ‘fixer’, and Paddy Considine as her doting son. She’s also, crucially, not just a mob wife.
In MobLand, released this Sunday on Paramount+, Mirren is a tour de force as Maeve Harrigan, the calculated matriarch of an Irish crime dynasty who spends much of her time scheming in the countryside, pulling at the strings of her family’s London-based drug trade from the comfort of her Cotswolds mansion.
