Monday, July 07, 2025

Maeve Helen Mirren - love to hate characters: MobLand Coming Back for Season 2

“Mother Nature is a heartless, pitiless, unsympathetic, brutal, barbaric bitch who knows no mercy or pardon. She only cares which f—ker wins. But yet, you know, everybody loves her. Worships her. It doesn’t matter how much she hurts them: They keep coming back. 

Even if she breaks their hearts, burns their houses down, kills their babies. They love her to her bones. So, in this story, Conrad, I am Mother Nature. And, like her, I test people — Kevin, Eddie, even that bitch Seraphina — to see who’s got the head, the stomach, the balls, the juice, the fight. And most of all, I test you, Conrad. And don’t think the test is over. And that, Conrad, is why you love me.”


The character Helen in the movie MobLand is quoted as saying, "But yet, you know, everybody loves her. Worships her. It doesn't matter how much she hurts them: They keep coming back. Even if she breaks their hearts, burns their houses down, kills their babies." according to Yahoo EntertainmentThis quote highlights a character's manipulative and destructive nature, yet their enduring hold on those around them


The most interesting, hysterical aspects of the Guy Ritchie-produced crime drama 
MobLand stem from the marital tension between Conrad (Pierce Brosnan) and Maeve Harrigan (Helen Mirren), the heads of a gangster clan in London. In the penultimate episode of the show’s first season, which aired May 25, the two get into one of their many evocative fights. 
While sweating it off in the sauna of their luxurious English manor (he’s shirtless, and she’s in a bathrobe), they bicker because he’s invited a younger woman over for a meal. “Do you want to ride her?” she asks him in a thick Irish accent that’s hard to take seriously even for a second. 
He denies this, claiming he wants only to suss out if this new family friend of sorts is spying on them. “Want to strip her bare and find a wire?” Maeve continues, ending the chat by pointing to her powerful husband’s balls, threatening that he’ll “lose them” if he tries anything. To make matters funnier, Conrad looks down and sighs, partly in frustration and partly as if relieved to find his body parts still intact. 
 



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MobLand Renewed For Season 2 At Paramount+ — Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren, And Pierce Brosnan To Return


One of the show’s stars who’s getting rave reviews online is Tom Hardy: “Tom Hardy is quietly, menacingly, and wittily giving a Gary Oldman sized performance in Mobland. Every line he delivers is sweet as… Highly recommended,” one fan wrote.

“TV brilliance”: Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren’s "best" drama MobLand is returning with “everybody" on board Guy Ritchie's record-breaking crime drama is officially returning!


MobLand’s producer David Glasser also gave some insight into a second season during an interview with Deadline in March. “Yes, there will be,” he said. “Same team, same everybody. Everybody’s coming back. One big family.”

 Is MobLand Coming Back for Season 2

The Tom Hardy–starring crime drama is quietly one of Paramount+’s most successful shows.


Tom Hardy's mob drama, MobLand, has proven to be a big success with critics and viewers, and its popularity could allow another series from eight years ago to receive a second season. Created by Ronan Bennett, MobLand stars Tom Hardy as Harry De Souza, a tough and no-nonsense fixer who works for the formidable Harrigan crime family.

Tom Hardy’s Forgotten Crime Series Deserves A Second Life After His Latest Streaming Hit



It's been a pretty great year for Paramount+, as the streamer has released its two most-watched shows ever in the first half of 2025: Taylor Sheridan's Landman with Billy Bob Thornton, and star-studded British thriller series MobLand. Featuring the talents of folks like Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, and Paddy Considine, it's no surprise that MobLand turned out to be a massive success, becoming the streamer's biggest debut so far. 

MobLand tells the story of a war between two London crime families — the Harrigans and the Stevensons — from the point of view of the Harrigans and their fixer, Harry Da Souza (Hardy). But this series is as much a personal melodrama as it is a crime story — the Harrigans have a level of family drama that you'd normally have to watch Game of Thrones for. That's no doubt one of the reasons MobLand has proven so popular.

Now that Season 1 is over, though, it's time to look ahead at what's next for MobLand


“Mother Nature is a heartless, pitiless, unsympathetic, brutal, barbaric bitch who knows no mercy or pardon. She only cares which f—ker wins. But yet, you know, everybody loves her. Worships her. It doesn’t matter how much she hurts them: 

They keep coming back. Even if she breaks their hearts, burns their houses down, kills their babies. They love her to her bones. So, in this story, Conrad, I am Mother Nature. And, like her, I test people — Kevin, Eddie, even that bitch Seraphina — to see who’s got the head, the stomach, the balls, the juice, the fight. And most of all, I test you, Conrad. And don’t think the test is over. And that, Conrad, is why you love me.”