It's not even fall yet, and already MobLand Season 2 is the thing gnawing at my brain. You felt the chill, too, right? That last episode—Harry bleeding out, Jan's face white as hospital sheets, Conrad banging the walls like a king in exile—left more questions than any writer's room would dare answer in one go.
Here's what we know. No guesswork, no armchair theories. Pure, beautiful, confirmed mess.
MobLand is coming back—renewed and swaggering for Season 2, with Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, and Tom Hardy still front and center, all ready to glare, snarl, or bleed all over London's bad side once again. Release date? No official confirmation yet (as of June 2025), but every tradesheet's whispering “late 2025” or sooner if Paramount+ wants another hit for Q4.[^1]
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Family First? Yeah, Right.
Harry Da Souza (Tom Hardy, all muscle and regret) “saves” the Harrigan family—if you call dragging everyone, lovers included, into a bloodfeud saving anything. Season 1 ended with Harry on the wrong end of a knife (yes, Jan stabbed him; yes, he's alive, but barely). Here's the rub: producer Jez Butterworth says the wound isn't fatal, but it's the emotional scarring that matters, not just the stitches.
Picture it—Harry on the lam or licking wounds at home, torn between giving up the fixer game for Jan and Gina, or getting pulled back into the endless cycle of underworld firefighting by (who else?) the ever-volatile Harrigans. Is this the season he walks away? Does anyone in mob stories ever truly walk away? God, I hope so. But you know—narratively speaking? Probably not.
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Changing of the Guard (Maybe)
Kevin Harrigan (Paddy Considine with a bruised halo) has just inherited the mess—and trust me, the mess is biblical. With the old king Conrad locked up but very much alive (cheered by fellow inmates like some Cockney demigod), Kevin's at a crossroads. He wants peace, maybe even some redemption. His wife, Bella (Lara Pulver), is spinning her own web, climbing from pawn to queen with a new lattice of political connections that would make Frank Underwood glance twice. If the Harrigans go legit (or legit adjacent), it'll be Bella's doing.
But there's always a snake (or five) in Eden. Enter Eddie—Conrad's true heir, a powder-keg groomed by grandmother Maeve (Helen Mirren, icier by the season) to take what's “rightfully” his. The real twist? The kid's blood runs cold; he's the ghost of every bad decision the family ever made, and now he knows it.
The subtext here practically screams—in MobLand, blood isn't thicker than ambition, it's just easier to wash off the marble floors.
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There's Always… Maeve.
Nobody holds a grudge like Maeve. She's spent a lifetime feigning loyalty to Conrad, all while grooming Eddie for power. Now, with Conrad and Maeve both behind bars, Season 2 could see Maeve discard the old “loving matriarch” mask. (Confession: Mirren's stone-cold stare as Maeve gives me chills—the kind you feel only when someone's plotting something biblical. Or lethal.)
If Eddie seizes the top spot? Don't be shocked if Maeve torches her marriage and burns Conrad down, just for fun. It's Shakespeare by way of Guy Ritchie, with extra salt.
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Seraphina's Gambit
Can we talk about Seraphina for a second? Always the overlooked Harrigan, always a hair's breadth from ruin, now she's sniffing around for real power. Conrad favored her; Maeve hated it. Cue the fireworks. Last season's finale had her literally sitting in Conrad's chair—a gesture that felt both desperate and inevitable. What happens when you put an ambitious outsider in the heart of a crumbling dynasty? Usually, blood on the walls.
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Conrad: The Lion in Winter
Conrad may be locked away, but don't mistake that for defeat. His last shot—basking in adoration in the prison block—screams ‘this isn't over'. Season 2 might keep him in the shadows, biding his time, waiting for the chaos to make his return not just possible, but inevitable. Any other show, it would be cliché. In MobLand, it feels like gravity.
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The Big Picture
MobLand Season 2 isn't about who wins, it's about how ugly the victory gets. Family loyalty is a myth, bloodlines a curse, and London—a map of unfinished wars. I'm obsessed (I really am) with how MobLand continues to take tropes apart, then glue them back together with spit, guilt, and the odd political favor.
Will Harry get a real shot at peace? Can Kevin build something new, or will Bella pull the strings? Is Eddie a villain, a victim, or next in line for the throne? And Maeve—god, Maeve—she's the black hole at the story's center, swallowing everything whole.
Ready for the worst? Me neither. But I'll be watching—knuckles white, waiting for the first body to drop.
No release date (yet). No mercy, either.
