Post Holiday Blues Streaming 25' - MobLand - Season One

MobLand is honestly one of the best series from the Post Holiday Blues Streaming 25' quarter.

Starring Tom Hardy as Harry Da Souza, a fixer for the Harrigan crime family led by Conrad (Pierce Brosnan) and Maeve Harrigan (Helen Mirren). 

Paddy Considine also stars as Kevin Harrigan, son of Conrad and Maeve, and Harry's longtime working partner. 

Legendary and ex to Madonna Guy Ritchie, alongsideAnthony Byrne, Daniel Syrkin, and Lawrence Gough serve as directors for the first season. 

The series was first announced in February 2024 as The Donovans, a loosely-based spinoff of the Showtime series Ray Donovan. Last October, the series was announced to have been reworked into a standalone series with the working title The Associate.

Production began in November 2024 with Hardy, Brosnan and Mirren in London, and the working title was removed. In February, the final title of the series, MobLand, was revealed.

The Harrigans (not the Donovans), a London crime family, find themselves in a battle with the Stevensons that could end syndicates and their lives. 

Harry Da Souza is a street-smart and formidable fixer employed by the Harrigan family to navigate and mitigate the escalating conflict threatening their empire. As tensions between the families intensify, Harry is tasked with protecting the Harrigans' interests and preventing an all-out gang war.

 

So with power up for grabs as the Harrigans and Stevensons, two warring London crime families, clash in a kill-or-be-killed battle that threatens to topple empires and ruin lives. 

Caught in the crossfire is Harry Da Souza, the street-smart ‘fixer’ as dangerous as he is handsome, who knows too well where loyalties lie when opposing forces collide. 

As kingdom goes up against kingdom, lines will be crossed - and the only saving grace is a bet-your-life guarantee: family above everything.

So what went down in the action packed finale. Firstly spoiler alert! Secondly, this series does stream on Donovan's Showtime adjacent, Paramount+.

Kevin, after killing Rusby, sits alone in front of the dead body and recites a story about how he and Bella tried to live a normal marriage, and how he found out Eddie is his brother. 

Harry then shows up on the scene and sees Kevin with Rusby; Kiko and Zosia clear the bloodied items and clean Rusby's body. 

Harry interrogates O'Hara about how she betrayed the family to Richie and that she is the rat. 

Kevin extends his support to Harry. Kevin meets Conrad and tells his father how he killed the person who hurt him. Eventually, Kevin threatens Conrad. 

Eddie meets Maeve in jail, and over the intercom she tells him that he should kill Harry and Seraphina as part of a new plan to take control of the family operations. She discovers that Eddie is clueless about his true family ties and prepares to set him straight. 

Kat talks to Seraphina and says that the Harrigans are in bad shape as leaders of their family operations and that she would like to meet personally with Seraphina. Colin pays Alice £100,000 for her work, but he betrays her to Richie's men. 

Richie's men kidnap her and tell Richie that the job is done. O'Hara goes to meet Ritchie and tells him Harry wants her to arrange a meeting where he intends to kill Ritchie. She calls Harry while in Ritchie's office with Ritchie silently listening in, in order to convince Harry about a 1pm meeting in her office with Ritchie to be there at the meeting. 

Harry seems to accept the appointment as his chance to ambush and kill Ritchie.

Richie sends half of his men to O'Hara's office and half of his men to the country safe house to eliminate the Harrigan family. After Ritchie's troops arrive for the ambush, Paul has rigged the office for detonation and remotely blows up the office with all of Ritchie's troops inside. 

Separately, Kiko and Zosia infiltrate the safehouse and similarly ambush and kill Richie's men, but Kiko gets shot and dies in the process. 

Harry and Kevin then arrive at Ritchie's bar and office to ambush and kill his few remaining men and to then get Ritchie. Harry and Kevin quickly locate Ritchie and O'Hara in Ritchie's office and quickly shoot them both to death. 

While at the holding tank at the police, Maeve and Conrad speak to each other on their cell phone from different holding rooms. 

Harry and Kevin contemplate their gains and discuss needing to get a new attorney to replace O'Hara and to decide how long they will let Maeve and Conrad sit in the holding tank at the police. 

Harry goes to have lunch with Kat, who wishes to discuss the end of the Harrigan family. She wants Harry to join her against the Harrigans but Harry declines to sell them out against all odds. He walks out on Kat. 

Harry goes to meet his wife and daughter but has a fight with his wife in which she cuts herself while cutting vegetables, and Harry unexpectedly gets stabbed in the chest during the argument. 

Conrad is prepared to leave from lock-up and be discharged, when he receives a standing ovation from the on-looking inmates for what appears to be his beating the system and the charges against him one more time.

The series was a wild ride, full of C bombs, full of action, Hardy being a serious fixer and Helen Mirren being damn frightening!

If you have Paramount+ watch this now! Don't delay!