The Gentlemen

Four years after the film, Guy Ritchie went back to its premise, old English money discreetly underwriting a cannabis operation, and rebuilt it for Netflix. The Gentlemen premiered in March 2024 as an eight-part series created by Ritchie, who wrote it with Matthew Read and directed the opening two episodes. It shares a title and a sensibility with the 2019 feature but none of its characters. It became a fixture of Netflix's global top ten and returned for a second season in September 2026.

Theo James plays Eddie Horniman, a soldier and second son who unexpectedly inherits his father's dukedom and finds the family estate secretly leased to a criminal enterprise run by the Glass family. Kaya Scodelario is Susie Glass, the operation's poised, unsentimental manager, and the pair make a wary double act at the show's centre. Around them Ritchie stacks a gallery of his favourite types: Daniel Ings as Eddie's hapless elder brother, Vinnie Jones as the loyal gamekeeper, Ray Winstone as the imprisoned patriarch Bobby Glass, Giancarlo Esposito as a softly spoken American billionaire. The longer format suits Ritchie's habits: the digressions, the cross-cut set pieces, the dialogue that circles a threat before landing it.

Reviews were warm without being rapturous, naming its debt to Ritchie's earlier work as both its pleasure and its limit, but audiences took to it straight away. The appeal is plain: a class comedy dressed as a gangster caper, in which inherited titles and new money speak much the same language. It sits naturally beside Snatch and the film that shares its name, and, with the darker MobLand, it shows the British crime caper finding a second home on television.