2025 its been a great year for content on the TV series side, so far not so much on movies not like 2024; Mobland started as a series that might introduce something new with the hole British gangster theme, a more modern one than what we are use to watch, but even though there is a lot of explosions and some fights here and there it still doesn't feel like a tier one series, something as hard as "Peaky Blinders", for that I believe its a watchable series and probably its the lack of context that makes me feel like this on every other episode, some are good some are better but nothing that really strikes, yes there are wow moments like the end of this episode but after the obvious I ask myself but how did all this started? or is the series created with the purpose of just attracting the audience that is only chasing dopamine rush?
Episode 5 is the proof that women on Mobland has way more power than men, it is the case of Maeve who puts on a hit on Vron after been humiliated in front of other women at Tommy's funeral. Comrad once told Maeve "dont forget I'm the judge" but if she really gave the order to kill Vron, Comrad threat didn't age well. Lets see where this all takes us because now Richie not only lost his son but now also lost his trophy wife, there is nothing worst that can be done to a gangster that killing his wife or kids, that is a clear declaration of war, Maeve is wild and I only wonder at what point she is going to get Eddie in action if he ever will, there is the question if Maeve really told Eddie to kill Tommy.
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Well I already drop the beans on how the episode ends and its fine because I dont think this would be a series ppl are waiting for the season to end, with only 74% on RTT either a lot of ppl dont even know this series exist or its not that good. By now we know Maeve has more power over the family than Comrad himself, this could be the breaking point many might think but been realistic they have been together for a long time so this for sure has happen in the past.
From both sides, Comrad and Richie, none of them want to pull the trigger first, it is the case on how Comrad calls in everyone from the family who is involve in the business, leaving Brendan and Seraphina out. In the case of Brendan he once lost a lot of money on a deal he was working on for the family and after that has been banned for life and Seraphina well she not Maeve daughter so its just obvious that she is not welcome at Costwold but Comrad still has love for her. Everyone else is at Costwold to discuss if its safe to go to the funeral, here is when I think Comrad is more about making money than been wild, same goes to Richie even though bust sometimes just talk too much, I guess probably thats how it is once a gangster is settle and has a ton of power. What is curious about this episode is how Harry goes from been a possible informant as Maeve and Eddie were speculating to everyone going to the funeral because Harry says its fine, Comrad and everybody at that house put their faith in Harry. Lucky for them Harry is on their side, he even sneak guns and grenades at Richie's place after getting caught one of Richie's bodyguard and black mail him for fucking Vron, Richie's wife.
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On their way to the funeral there were several scenes that will catch your attention, one on each of the cars from Comrad. There is Harry and his wife Jan who in my opinion have to go at some point but he loves her too much, Jan is scare to death because she knows what can go down at that funeral, Harry getting everyone to the funeral is a way to basically say "we have no fear because we didn't do anything", putting every one at risk at once. On Kevin's car there was a more interesting conversation going on, same topic, Kevin tells Bella to not worry and just say the word and he would take her out of there, the most common answer would be "take me home" although she asks what did Harry said? did Harry say its safe? almost like I dont give a sht about what you say Kevin, to make things worst for Kevin, Eddie jumps in asking "yeah what did Harry said?", zero respect for Kevin on the family not even on his own, that really made me laugh.
You dont have to be genius to understand that Richie wants to expose Comrad, I think his plan is to get him to go to Tommy's funeral as the maximum disrespect so he can have enough excuse to go after him but why now? Richie already blew up Kevin's house so I dont think there is any excuse necessary, unless he is doing this to paint Comrad as a traitor and potential snitch against their providers, basically him on a Checkmate situation.
At the funeral Eddie had to show off, he looks Richie straight to his face and said how sorry he was for his lost, same thing to Vron and even try to give her a kiss, Harry had to pull on him and he answers he was only trying to meet her, honestly its the first time that I felt cool with Eddie for been so savage, for the most part he does feel like Joffrey from GOT.
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Richie's wife, Vron; is the classic gorgeous trophy wife, way younger than Richie and a bratt too, the total opposite to Maeve who is the same age or older than Comrad but as fierce as him. Clearly both gangster wife are out of their leach, on one side there is Vron who though he is just too powerful for anyone to do something against her but she is just stupid, they already killed their son, with more reason others would have the balls to go against them. Vron dare to disrespect Maeve in front of a group of her friends, even saying how does Comrad even fuck her and that Richie knows the truth, the end result is Maeve calling a guy name Luca who I assume setup a bomb on Vron's car, the event was too predictable but at the same time felt good, really intensifying the chaos between the families and probably open the door for war. It was probably Vron saying Richie knows the truth what gave Maeve that final push to kill her, almost saying like we going to war anyways.
Brendan and Seraphina characters have a bit of more development on this episode, Brendan in the past try to get her to jump ship with her but she puts him a stop right away, this was a strategic pause before she asks Comrad how to proceed, to what he said just listen to him but do not commit to anything. Brendan asks her for 1 hour of her time for lunch and talk about this deal he is brewing, she accepts to listen to what he has to say although the offer is really wack, what caught her attention was the possibility of getting a nice cut out of it going up to 75%, reason why she push so much is because Brendan is trying to deal ruby from Mozambique but it seems she knows where are this coming from based on a ruby Brendan show her and even knowing who is the buyer, this can be a strategy to put Brendan against the wall before she talks to Comrad about it or this might be her just been greedy and trying to leave Brendan with crumbs since he is so desperate to do something that can put him back on a good word with Comrad.
What kept me thinking there is more to the series are the many threads developing like Bella and Harry romantic connection at least from Bella whenever she gets horny, making things worst would the though if Kevin and Harry will have a problem because of Bella, based on the first five episodes I would say no but how far will Jan keep pushing Harry into Bella's arms?. Bernard and Seraphine deal brewing is also interesting and I think it deserves more development, I hope they just dont kill the idea and let Bernard really screw up things for the family once again. Based on this arguments besides the war between families going on, I think there is way more to the series, considering this is only on the Harrigans side, what else is to develop on the Stevensons?, cool episode and I'm starting to like Eddie's savage attitude.
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