You know how the recent TV series Mr & Mrs Smith had the same title as the film Mr & Mrs Smith, and a similar premise, but you could watch it happily without having seen what was only technically the original? Well, welcome to The Gentlemen, Guy Ritchie’s new series with the same name as his 2019 film. It has a similar premise to the movie, but you could watch it happily without having seen what is only technically the original.
The main players in The Gentlemen are swiftly established. A fine, upstanding young officer, Eddie Halstead (Theo James), is yanked out of the army life he loves to take over his family’s 500-year-old estate and dukedom after his father’s sudden death. As the second son, Eddie was not expecting this. The first son, Freddy (Daniel Ings), was expecting it even less. But wills is wills and Daddy’s is very clear.
