Tuesday, 9 December 2025

Mobland and This City is Ours

First season TV shows about protagonists who are crime family adjacent.

Mobland

Harry (played by Tom Hardy) is a fixer for the Harrigan crime family who has his work cut out for him as he needs to clean up messes created by the entitled youngsters and/or crazy elders of the family while attempting to keep the peace with their rivals and trying to keep his wife happy. It's nice how he's portrayed as a really soft spoken, calm bloke regardless of the situation but can "shift gear to six" when things need to happen but you'll also be face palming at all the idiotics everyone else gets up to. Worth a watch. 

This City is Ours

Michael (played by James Nelson-Joyce) is the right hand man to the Phelans crime family patriarch but when things go awry (what with the patriarch played by the walking spoiler Sean Bean :P) he soon finds himself on the outside of the family circle despite actually owning half the business. You'd think that what follows would just be a tale of guns blazing but no... the story makes it a bit more complicated than that. It's not bad, but it does feel that all the characters are lacking the cajones to actually see things through personally. Hopefully they get more drive in season two or this is just going to go nowhere. 

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