MobLand Season 2 Trailer: Tom Hardy’s Harry Da Souza Faces a Family in Freefall

Paramount+ has released the full trailer for MobLand Season 2, and the Harrigan crime dynasty looks more fractured than ever.

The ten-episode second season premieres globally on September 18, with new episodes streaming weekly on Fridays through the November 20 finale.

Tom Hardy returns as Harry Da Souza, the street-smart fixer holding the family together — or trying to. In the new footage, he delivers a grim warning to Pierce Brosnan’s crime boss Conrad Harrigan: “This family is in a death spiral.”

Season one ended with Conrad and his wife and partner in crime, Maeve (Helen Mirren), behind bars. Now out and back in the thick of it, Conrad has lost none of his volatility — a character in the trailer describes him as having “went completely bonkers berserk.”

A civil war inside the Harrigan empire.

The official logline sets the stakes plainly: “The Harrigans struggle to show a unified front as rising rivals threaten their fractured criminal empire — and Harry Da Souza, their street-smart and formidable ‘fixer,’ must walk a dangerous tightrope when tensions within the family intensify.

As violence spills into every corner of their lives, loyalties snap, safety proves temporary and the battle for power leaves no room for mercy.”

Season 2 picks up immediately after the events of the first season, which followed a near-complete breakdown of the Harrigans’ criminal empire.

Harry got them out of a war with a rival family by simply winning it for the Harrigans and killing the head of the gang, Richie Stevenson. But the Harrigans aren’t an easy family to manage, and the new season promises them at their most reckless point yet.

Mirren returns as the loose-cannon matriarch Maeve, a role that has given the Oscar winner some of her most ferocious television work in years.

The ensemble is stacked: Paddy Considine, Joanne Froggatt, Lara Pulver, Anson Boon, Mandeep Dhillon, Jasmine Jobson, Teddie Allen, Emmett J. Scanlan, Johnny Flynn, Ophelia Lovibond, Janet McTeer and Toby Jones round out the cast.

Behind-the-scenes drama, resolved.

The Season 2 trailer arrives after a turbulent stretch behind the camera.

Reports surfaced that Hardy clashed with executive producer Jez Butterworth during production of the second season — at one point, the star allegedly refused to leave his trailer — raising real questions about whether he would continue with the series.

The two sides eventually worked it out. A meeting in London between Hardy and the show’s higher-ups led to a breakthrough and carved a path for his return, and Hardy is now set to potentially sign on for a third season.

Brosnan, for one, is hopeful the show has legs. “I would very much like to see more seasons. There’s a lot of life (laughs) and death within this family and these storylines,” he told The Hollywood Reporter.

“People love these kind of characters, especially when they’re so beautifully rendered by playwrights like Ronan Bennett and Jez Butterworth. And when you have an ensemble cast like we have, which is so strong, so powerful.”

A third season has not been formally announced, but given the show’s performance on Paramount+, another run is all but assured.

The crime drama is commissioned by Paramount+ and produced in association with Paramount Television Studios and 101 Studios. Additional executive producers include David C. Glasser, Guy Ritchie, Hardy, Ivan Atkinson, Dean Baker, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin, Bob Yari and Keith Cox.

For a series built on the idea of a fixer who can talk his way out of anything, the most interesting question Season 2 poses is whether Harry can fix what’s broken inside the family — or whether he was always the only thing keeping them from eating each other alive.

Sources

• The Hollywood Reporter