WARNING: This article contains spoilers for MobLand Season 1.
It looks like Guy Ritchie, Ronan Bennett, and Jez Butterworth have been shaking the right hands (no wrong hand breaking necessary): MobLand is getting a Season 2! Just three weeks after the first season of Paramount+'s Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren, and Pierce Brosnan led gangster drama ended its run quite literally on a knife's edge, the streamer took to its social channels today to confirm that fixer Harry Da Souza and his crime family associates will be returning to our screens for more shady dealings in the land of mobs. Check out the Instagram reveal below;
"They may have won the battle, but will they win the war?" reads the teasing tagline attached to the new season's announcement — and there's no prizes for guessing who the 'they' in question refers to. Season 1's explosive finale, 'The Beast In Me', saw the Harrigans finally put their feud with the Stevensons to blood-soaked bed, leaving Kevin (Paddy Considine) newly seated at the head of the Harrigan family empire, Conrad (Brosnan) and Maeve (Mirren) off the hook and out of the slammer after having been framed for a crime they didn't commit, and the stage set for the Harrigans' conquest of the criminal underworld to potentially go global in Season 2. There is, it has to be mentioned, also the small matter of Harry having taken a knife to the gut from his wife (Joanne Froggatt) for the show's creatives to contend with next time out, but one thing at a time eh? Let's face it, we never believed for a second that our boy Harry was being taken out of the game this early on: who else would be there to correct gangsters' improper use of metaphors? Exactly.
“TV was a brand new world for me and I was reluctant to commit to a TV overall, but Chris, David and the teams at Paramount and 101 Studios completely changed my perspective with their bold creative vision and razor-sharp strategic insight,” said MobLand co-writer Jez Butterworth in a statement accompanying the show's renewal. “Collaborating with Chris, David, Guy and our stellar cast has been nothing short of inspiring and I’m excited to dive into the second season of MobLand.”
With Season 1 having balanced licks of comedy with lashings of brutal crime drama nastiness and more twists than a French pastry, racking up over 26 million viewers on its way to becoming a global No. 1 show for Paramount+, expect plenty more where that deliciously dark and effed-up first season came from. Bring. It. On.