The Gentlemen - Season 1
The Gentlemen is pure entertainment and director Guy Ritchie can enjoy himself again. I'm an admirer of director Guy Ritchie. This Brit is known as Madonna's ex-husband, but fortunately much more famous for classic action films such as Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. Both films are characterized by very brutal violence, witty dialogues and wonderful plot twists and rapid switches between place, time and events. After a number of lesser films, he made classics such as Sherlock Holmes and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. With The Gentlemen, Ritchie follows the path of the television series and we will see him again on Netflix.
A television series based on a Guy Ritchie film is nothing new, because after the success of the film there was also a television series by Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels. That series was well made and Guy Ritchie also wrote one episode, but was only a modest success. Now he is fully focused on a more large-scale television adaptation of one of his films: The Gentlemen.
Soldier Eddie Horniman (Theo James, Castlevania) is on a mission when he is called back because his father Archibald (Edward Fox, Taboo) is terminally ill. He returns to his family's impressive estate to say goodbye to his father. That farewell goes faster than expected and before Eddie realizes it, the will is read and his brother Freddy does not inherit the estate, but becomes the new duke of the family.
Brother Eddy Horniman (Daniel Ings, The Crown) is a cocaine-addicted, unpredictable gambler who has gotten into a lot of trouble in recent years. Gambling debts, wrong contacts and his impulsive behavior are ingredients for many problems. Eddie tries to help his brother and also uses his military experience, but from the start he has the greatest difficulty in keeping his brother's major problems under control.
He gradually discovers the actions his late father took to save the family from problems. However, the question is whether those past actions have curbed the problems or made them worse. The most important roles are in the hands of relatively new actors. Theo James plays the lead role in this series excellently. It's also nice to see veteran Edward Fox in the series (briefly), but I was especially pleased with Vinnie Jones's (Law & Order: Organized Crime) role as the understated estate supervisor, Geoffrey Seacombe.
A television series based on a Guy Ritchie film is nothing new, because after the success of the film there was also a television series by Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels. That series was well made and Guy Ritchie also wrote one episode, but was only a modest success. Now he is fully focused on a more large-scale television adaptation of one of his films: The Gentlemen.
Soldier Eddie Horniman (Theo James, Castlevania) is on a mission when he is called back because his father Archibald (Edward Fox, Taboo) is terminally ill. He returns to his family's impressive estate to say goodbye to his father. That farewell goes faster than expected and before Eddie realizes it, the will is read and his brother Freddy does not inherit the estate, but becomes the new duke of the family.
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Brother Eddy Horniman (Daniel Ings, The Crown) is a cocaine-addicted, unpredictable gambler who has gotten into a lot of trouble in recent years. Gambling debts, wrong contacts and his impulsive behavior are ingredients for many problems. Eddie tries to help his brother and also uses his military experience, but from the start he has the greatest difficulty in keeping his brother's major problems under control.
He gradually discovers the actions his late father took to save the family from problems. However, the question is whether those past actions have curbed the problems or made them worse. The most important roles are in the hands of relatively new actors. Theo James plays the lead role in this series excellently. It's also nice to see veteran Edward Fox in the series (briefly), but I was especially pleased with Vinnie Jones's (Law & Order: Organized Crime) role as the understated estate supervisor, Geoffrey Seacombe.
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Director Ritchie has created an excellent series with The Gentlemen. The series has little to do with the original 2019 film, but it is nice to see its wonderfully spicy action scenes, sharp dialogues and beautiful plot twists on Netflix. After his sweet Disney film Aladdin from 2019 (extremely successful with a box office of more than 1 billion dollars), it is good to see that he has not lost his old style. The series may not be innovative or high-flown, but it is certainly very exciting, sometimes shocking and ultimately always entertaining.Director Ritchie has created an excellent series with The Gentlemen.
About the writer, Karzal
Mike (1995) has been a member of MySeries since 2016 and is mainly active on the English version of the site. Since 2018, he has been actively translating news articles, columns, reviews and basically everything that ends up on the Dutch site. The original articles, columns and reviews were actually written by others. During the week Mike can be found at IKEA, where he is a national systems specialist and occasionally also in the classroom to teach an English lesson. In addition, Mike logically enjoys watching series and has actually been spoon-fed this from an early age. The genre doesn't matter, there is a place for everything in the otherwise busy life.
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