The Gentlemen: the series with Theo James is a mix of twists and laughs

If you love Guy Ritchie's style The Gentlemen, the Netflix series that takes up his 2019 film of the same name, will be right for you because it is capable of perfectly summarizing the absurdities, accelerations and repercussions of a filmography that has always been based on adrenaline and twists. The beginning is in medias resready as he is to immediately introduce us to the protagonist, that is, a good and honest young officer named Eddie Halstead who, in addition to being thoughtful and rule-abiding, is also beautiful – plays him Theo Jameswhich after the worldwide success of the second season of The White Lotus he saw his prices grow enormously – and he was very rich. Halstead is, in fact, son of a duchy that has existed for five hundred years which, at a certain point, tears him away from the military life he loves to put him face to face with an extraordinary fact: at the reading of the will following the sudden death of his father, he discovers that the latter has decided that his fortune will not be inherited by his first-born Freddy (Daniel Ings), but by Eddie himself.

The Gentlemen begins like this: with Eddie not understanding why his father decided to designate him as heir and with Freddy who goes crazy with envy and jealousy also because he risks his life if he doesn't hand over the amount monsters Of eight million dollars a drug dealers who threaten to kill him. Our gentleman Eddie, who has an aplomb and patience worthy of the Dalai Lama, is not discomposed, and decides to help his brother in difficulty by trying to sell the property of I don't understand how many square meters not to mention the hectares within a week . This is where, though The Gentlemen marks a turning point: by chance Eddie discovers, in fact, that hidden inside the estate there is a gigantic cannabis field which proceeds under the supervision of the incarcerated Bobby Glass (Ray Winstone) and the management of his daughter, the beautiful Susie (Kaya Scodelario). How to behave, considering how faithful our gentleman is to the law?

A scene from The Gentlemen

The answer is a series in which Guy Ritchie brings together a bit of everything – the crimes, the comical negotiations, the bloody clashes and the expected and unexpected deaths – for the joy of a viewer who does not want to be bored or sift through the platform's catalogue to search for a new title to watch. From episode to episode, The Gentlemen in fact, it puts together plot after plot without forgetting action and fun, which has actually never been lacking in Ritchie's films. Between cannabis, meth empires, splashes of blood here and there, machete attacks and religious sects, it is above all the character of Theo James who functions in the series, the only bastion of calm and coolness in the midst of a chaos that becomes increasingly intricate and difficult to untangle. He is the reason why the series works, without forgetting the light register that made it happen The Gentlemen rocketed to the top of the most viewed titles on Netflix in several countries around the world including ours.