The Gentlemen season 2 is irritating but extremely funny
Season two of the gentleman series returns on Netflix with Guy Ritchie’s crime caper still irritating, beautifully shot, overlong and extravagantly stupid—yet fitfully funny. Theo James’s Eddie Horniman pushes for more power, an Italian drug deal and a peerage, while The Guardian finds Daniel Ings the standout again.
Key Takeaways
- Guy Ritchie’s Netflix crime saga is back with the same swearing, fist-shaking hijinks and tweed-clad geezers as season one.
- Eddie wants out of Susie and Bobby Glass’s debt grip, an Italian deal with Marco Moretti, and a hereditary peerage tied to cannabis politics.
- The Guardian calls it irritating, overlong, extravagantly stupid and fitfully funny; the FT labels it rowdy, fast-food TV.
- Hugh Bonneville joins as bribable Lord Hawthorne; Netflix confirms the cast expands into Italy and beyond.
- Season 2 of The Gentlemen is streaming now on Netflix.
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What happens in The Gentlemen season two?
When we left Eddie Horniman, the 13th Duke of Halstead had teamed with frosty Susie Glass to run the cannabis operation under his estate. Now he wants more. Per The Guardian’s review, he aims to shake off Susie and Ray Winstone’s Bobby Glass, who hold him over a debt after bailing out brother Freddy.
He also eyes an Italian drug deal with "boss of bosses" Marco Moretti and a seat as a hereditary peer. That peerage would help him shape a marijuana decriminalisation bill—and let him parade the grounds in a cape. Netflix Tudum adds that Eddie is "very much at the helm," embracing life as both aristocrat and criminal as the operation grows past England.
Is the gentleman series season 2 any good?
Critically, it is comfort food with caveats. The Guardian says series two is "precisely as irritating, beautifully shot, overlong, extravagantly stupid and fitfully funny as its predecessor." The Financial Times frames Guy Ritchie’s saga as "rowdy, fast-food TV."
Expect motorcycle chases, a Botticelli subplot, and Bobby barking from sauna and hot tub. Ritchie’s mix of fists, shouting and geezerisms in tweed is intact. Pacing is the sore spot: for all the international oi-oi energy, the review still wishes the show would, as Bobby might put it, get a move on.
Who joins Eddie’s empire of allies and enemies?
Theo James remains the blankly ambitious centre—described as a "wardrobe of beef in cufflinks"—while Daniel Ings’s Freddy is again "the best thing in this bunkum." Kaya Scodelario’s Susie grows more rebellious; Vinnie Jones’s Geoff stays fiercely loyal.
Netflix’s cast guide highlights Hugh Bonneville as Lord Hawthorne, a House of Lords route into establishment power, plus Sergio Castellitto’s ruthless Marco Moretti, Giancarlo Esposito’s Uncle Stan, and Italian newcomers Bella and Cico as the crime world thickens. The gentleman series season 2 is streaming now, only on Netflix.