Rent Gangs of London: Series 2 (2022)
3.8 of 5 from 17 ratings
7h 28min
- General info
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- All series
- Synopsis:
One year after the death of Sean Wallace (Joe Cole) and the violent reckonings of series one, the map and soul of London has been redrawn. The surviving Wallaces are scattered. the Dumanis broken and estranged, and ex-undercover cop Elliot (Sope Dirisu) is now being forced to work for the investors. To restore order, the investors have aligned behind heroin baron Asif Afridi (Asif Raza Mir) and together they have installed a new ruling force in London in the form of brutal gang leader - Koba (Waleed Zuaiter). His vision for the criminal landscape is a dictatorship, a world in which old school gangster codes don't exist and in which he holds a complete monopoly over London's drug trade. But this monopoly can't last forever. The gangs are fighting back - who will win the battle for the soul of London? - Actors:
- Salem Kali, Aymen Hamdouchi, Fady Elsayed, Sammy Broly, Yassine Mkhichen, Waleed Zuaiter, Sope Dirisu, Zydrunas Savickas, Paapa Essiedu, Asif Raza Mir, Brian Vernel, Valene Kane, Pamela Nomvete, Amanda Drew, Lucian Msamati, Romanos Kassimis, Michelle Fairley, Jake Curran, Joe Cole, Narges Rashidi
- Directors:
- Corin Hardy, Marcela Said, Nima Nourizadeh
- Producers:
- Michael Eagle-Hodgson, Hugh Warren, Stella Nwimo
- Voiced By:
- Yassine Anaddam
- Creators:
- Gareth Evans, Matt Flannery
- Writers:
- Tom Butterworth, Gareth Evans, Matt Flannery, Lauren Sequeira, Steve Searle, Danusia Samal, Rowan Athale, Megan Salter
- Studio:
- Dazzler
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Action & Adventure, TV Crimes, TV Dramas, TV Mysteries
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 19/12/2022
- Run Time:
- 448 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, English LPCM Stereo
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Disc 1:
- This disc includes episodes 1 - 3
- Disc 2:
- This disc includes episodes 4 - 6
- Disc 3:
- This disc includes episodes 7 - 8
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Reviews (1) of Gangs of London: Series 2
So-so very violent London gangs thriller, with lots of fights, shooting, explosions etc - Gangs of London: Series 2 review by PV
This is a lots of style but not so much substance. The creator Gareth Evans is from a martial arts and action movie background, and it shows.
Shifting loyalties of various ethnic gangs over 8 episodes. Paper-thin characterisation apart from a couple of the gang leaders - the Georgian Koba, Asif, the Jamaican. It is true that London and the Uk is ruled by these foreign criminal gangs - Albanians, Russians, Kurds, Jamaicans, Turks as shown here, plus the old traditional British white gangs like the Richardsons, surely the model for this. Joe Cole is Joe Cole and stares well.
BUT it is rather glossy superficial, and the target audience is surely those who do not care much about that and just want lots of blood and guts and violence, shooting, stabbings, explosions etc. Well there is plenty here.
Not a patch on the real classics of TV drama about organised crime and drugs such as Peaky Blinders (early series), The Sopranos, Breaking Bad and Narcos. Compared to them, this really is division 2, B-movie land.
I found it hard to suspend disbelief here esp re the supposed UK police guy, the black character who lost his family in series one (Cannot remember the name).
But it's watchable. 3 stars. Just
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