The Harrigans keep a man for the calls that come in at three in the morning. MobLand is his shift.

Tom Hardy plays Harry Da Souza, fixer to a London crime family run by Conrad and Maeve Harrigan. The series weighs him against both sides of that arrangement: the household that pays him, and the trouble it hands him. Paddy Considine plays Kevin Harrigan, son of Conrad and Maeve, and Harry's working partner of many years. A second family wants the same ground, and the two houses grind against each other across ten episodes.

Ronan Bennett created the show for Paramount+ and wrote the entire first season with Jez Butterworth, which keeps the register verbal. People negotiate, flatter and threaten in the same breath, and a scene tends to turn on what someone chooses not to say. Guy Ritchie, Anthony Byrne, Daniel Syrkin and Lawrence Gough split the directing. Pierce Brosnan, Joanne Froggatt, Lara Pulver and Anson Boon fill out the two households.

Come for Hardy in low gear, watchful, doing the family's arithmetic in his head. Stay for the two-hander scenes with Considine, where a partnership built on years of shared work has to survive the fact that one man is family and the other is staff. Contemporary British gangster television with old dynastic bones, played closer to a family business under audit than a street war.