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How Does The Gentlemen Do It?
A terrible movie becomes a surprisingly entertaining TV series thanks to its handling of Guy Ritchie’s favorite tropes.
The Gentlemen is about an aristocratic British family whose patriarch dies and leaves their centuries-old country estate, Halstead Manor, and accompanying duke title to his second son, Eddie Horniman (James), skipping over his eldest, addict and fuckup Freddy (Daniel Ings). Also present: blood splatter on beautifully luxe clothes, secret killings that end up being meaningful later, some brutal fight scenes that evoke Gangs of London(director Nourizadeh helmed a couple episodes of that series), and a slow-motion dismembering by machete. Supporting characters include myriad bookies (nearly all untrustworthy, of course); a fixer played by Dar Salim, reuniting with Ritchie after The Covenant; the Glasses’s head grower Jimmy (Michael Vu), as earnest as he is constantly high; and a couple of brunettes in yet another crime gang who are great at upending men’s expectations (more on that trope later).
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