Gangs of London Season One | Blu-ray (Image)
RELEASE DATE: July 20, 2021
On July 20, 2021, RLJ Entertainment is releasing the Blu-ray set for Season One of Gangs of London, the latest from Gareth Evans, the action filmmaker behind The Raid, Apostle and Merantau.
Gangs of London stars Joe Cole (A Prayer Before Dawn) and Sope Dirisu (Humans), alongside Lucian Msamati, Michelle Fairley, Mark Lewis Jones, Narges Rashidi, Jing Lusi and Pippa Bennet-Warner.
Evans directed the majority of the 10-part run, including choreographed fight scenes. Other directors for the series include Corin Hardy (The Nun) and Xavier Gens (Hitman).
Gangs of London is set in contemporary London as it is being torn apart by power struggles involving several international gangs. The series begins as the head of one criminal gang is assassinated and the power vacuum threatens the fragile peace between the other underworld organizations (via DL).
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“According to SD, Evans will direct the majority of the 10-part run, including choreographed fight scenes.”
Thank God! I quite liked The Hallow (haven’t seen The Nun, but I’ll get around to it) and I’ve got a love/hate relationship with Gens’ stuff, but from the way Evans has been talking about “Gangs” lately, I thought he was strictly on writing and action duties. 5/10 with proven genre talent on the other 5 sounds nice to me.
Evans is credited with only 2 episodes (The great first episode and absolutely rocking fifth), but he was behind much of the action throughout.
As the drama takes hold though, Hardy and Gens take over and there is a drop in quality. The final episodes don’t have much action at all.
Ah, that’s unfortunate. Thanks for the heads up, though! Here’s to the second season having more action/Evans. 🍻
An uber-violent and operatic TV show about a power play within the Criminal Underworld rife with betrayals, double-crosses and counter-moves rooted in the real albeit exaggerated London-set Gangland Arena which showcases Mob Players of seemingly every stripe ( English, Irish, Turkish, Albanian, Nigerian, Pakistani, Pikeys) out for their pound of flesh….I liked Gangs of London!
The “created by Gareth Evans” tag likely turned out to be a double-edged sword for GoL, heightening expectations of a “The Raid as a TV Show” when what you got was a pretty cool and stylish Mob Drama sprinkled with a few Raid-style beatdowns. Sure it was formulaic, but the acting and action sold it for me and I binge-watched it across 2 evenings. And that Gareth Evans directed episode centered around a Farmhouse Siege is the single finest hour of Action Goodness committed to television, if you’ll pardon the hyperbole.
My gripes about GoL would be in it’s frequent and mean-spirited wallow in torture sequences (almost an entire episode is dedicated to the systematic brutalizing of a young woman chained in a basement) and the fact that it could have been wrapped up as a 9 episode self-contained mini-series, instead of leaving threads unresolved for a second season.