Our favorite dysfunctional UK crime family is back this weekend with the Season 2 premiere of MobLand on Paramount+. While our not-so-heroic heroes had won a major battle last season, it may have been little more than Pyrrhic victory. Powerful new enemies line up against the Harrigans as Season 2 kicks off, and Harry de Souza (Tom Hardy) faces new fights against dangerous new foes.

Read on for the entire MobLand Season 2 release schedule and everything else you need to know before diving back into this gritty UK crime drama.

What Time Does MobLand Season 2, Episode 1 Come Out?

MobLand Season 2 premieres Friday, September 18 on Paramount+. Episode 1, titled “I Wanna Be Your Dog,” is expected to begin streaming at 12 a.m. PT / 3 a.m. ET in the United States.

That works out to 1 a.m. MT and 2 a.m. CT. In other words, unless you’re planning a very late night, the Harrigans and their pile of problems will be waiting for you when you wake up Friday.

MobLand Season 2 Release Schedule

Unlike some streaming series, and just about everything on Netflix, MobLand won’t arrive all at once. Paramount+ is releasing one new episode every Friday for ten weeks, with the Season 2 finale landing November 20. This means that I’ll be able to review each episode as they come out here on this blog . Be sure to follow along here and on my YouTube channel as I’d love to hear your thoughts on the show as well!

MobLand Season 2 At-A-Glance

What Happened In MobLand Season 1?

Major spoilers for Season 1 ahead.

Season 1 revolved around the increasingly bloody war between two London crime families: the Harrigans, led by Conrad Harrigan (Pierce Brosnan) and his formidable wife Maeve (Helen Mirren), and the rival Stevenson family, led by Richie Stevenson (Geoff Bell). Caught in the middle was Harry Da Souza (Tom Hardy), the Harrigans’ supremely capable fixer and longtime friend of Conrad’s son Kevin (Paddy Considine). Harry’s competency is rivaled only by his saint-like patience, which he must tap into regularly given the nature of his employers.

The uneasy peace between the families collapsed after Kevin’s supposedly wayward son Eddie (Anson Boon) went out partying with Richie’s son Tommy Stevenson. Tommy subsequently disappeared and eventually turned up dead. Harry’s attempts to smooth things over are dashed by Conrad and Maeve’s increasingly erratic leadership. Things . . . escalated rather quickly.

By the finale, Harry discovered that Harrigan attorney O’Hara Delaney was Richie’s mole, having backed what she thought would be the winning horse. Harry turned that betrayal against Richie, luring the Stevensons into an ambush that ended with Richie and O’Hara dead and effectively brought the Harrigan-Stevenson war to a close. But victory only exposed the much more dangerous conflict brewing inside the Harrigan family itself, and invited in new threats from outside to fill the power vacuum.

The Harrigan family tree was one casualty of Season 1’s violence. As Kevin finally confronts his father in prison, asserting his dominance at last, Maeve revealed an enormous family secret to Eddie: Kevin isn’t actually his biological father. Conrad is. And things get twistier still, since Maeve isn’t Eddie’s biological grandmother at all. Eddie is now another potential claimant to the Harrigan empire. Seraphina (Mandeep Dhillon), meanwhile, attracted the attention of the mysterious and extremely powerful Kat McAllister (Janet McTeer) to whom she owes her life, thanks to Harry’s quick thinking.

This placed Harry directly in Kat’s crosshairs, where he found himself facing the kind of offer you can’t refuse: A better job, but only if he’d betray the Harrigans. Harry politely turned Kat down. She was none too pleased.

The season ends on a wild cliffhanger after Harry, victorious, returns home and gets in an argument with his wife Jan (Joanne Froggatt) who accidentally stabs him with a kitchen knife. Harry is left bleeding out as the credits roll.

While the Harrigans technically won their war against the Stevensons, they enter Season 2 divided, vulnerable and surrounded by ambitious enemies, corrupt police and internal strife. Juicy material for a second season, no doubt.

What Is MobLand Season 2 About?

The official description for Season 2 reads: “Season 2 finds the Harrigans struggling to maintain a united front as rivals threaten their criminal empire and tensions within the family increase. Harry is again caught in the middle as the family’s fixer, straining his other dangerous connections in the process. The race for control of London’s underworld is on, and there’s no room for mercy.”

Kevin has emerged from Season 1 with considerably more confidence and ambition, while Eddie now knows the truth about his parentage and an even more impressive chip on his shoulder. Seraphina is increasing her influence within the organization and without, and Maeve remains one of the most dangerous, unpredictable and mercurial political operators in the entire family. Conrad, who seemed to be having a right jolly old time in prison, has become increasingly volatile.

Lurking at the edges of all this is the corrupt detective, Colin Tattersall (Toby Jones), who threw his lot in with the Stevensons last season. Whether he has some larger personal grudge against the Harrigans remains to be seen, but we know for sure that he’s responsible for the deaths of three police detectives, killed in cold blood.

Kat McCallister appears to be the Big Bad of Season 2, and she’s joined by several newcomers in the cast (see below).

Is MobLand Worth Watching?

I was a bit late to the show, but I absolutely loved it once I got going and I’ve been extremely excited for Season 2. Hardy is a great central protagonist, calmly fixing the myriad problems that both his enemies and employers cause. Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren really steal the show, however, even if their Irish accents are a bit wonky. (Yes, I know Brosnan is Irish, but that is still not his natural accent). Maeve is such a great, wicked, half-mad witch of a character. I love her. I’ve joked that I’d happily play a GTA-style video game starring Conrad and Maeve.

Beyond these three, you have such a fantastic cast. Paddy Considine will always have a special place in my heart for his tremendous role as King Viserys I in House of the Dragon , and he was terrific in Season 1 of MobLand as well.

If you enjoy gritty UK crime dramas, you’d be crazy to miss this one. It’s also ten episodes per season, which is almost twice the length of a normal BBC crime drama (which are usually capped at six episodes). While Guy Ritchie is involved in the series, this is a much darker, more grounded crime drama than Ritchie’s Netflix show, The Gentlemen, and while it’s not as funny, that grounded nature serves it well. I can’t say whether Season 2 will be as good as Season 1, but as of this publication its Rotten Tomatoes score is at 100% with critics , fully 23% higher than Season 1. So that’s good news!

MobLand Season 2 Full Cast

Here’s the full MobLand cast. Other than a few casualties from the first season’s war, most everyone returns for Season 2.

  • Tom Hardy as Harry Da Souza
  • Pierce Brosnan as Conrad Harrigan
  • Helen Mirren as Maeve Harrigan
  • Paddy Considine as Kevin Harrigan
  • Joanne Froggatt as Jan Da Souza
  • Lara Pulver as Bella Harrigan
  • Anson Boon as Eddie Harrigan
  • Mandeep Dhillon as Seraphina Harrigan
  • Jasmine Jobson as Zosia
  • Emmett J. Scanlan as Paul
  • Janet McTeer as Kat McAllister
  • Toby Jones as Colin Tattersall
  • Teddie Allen as Gina Da Souza

Joining the cast this season are Johnny Flynn as Frankie, Ophelia Lovibond as Kavanagh and Mayor of Kingstown star Tobi Bamtefa as Dog. Flynn’s Frankie appears to be the most significant newcomer, emerging as a potentially dangerous new adversary for Harry and the Harrigans. ( Harry and the Harrigans would have made a great name for this show, actually).

An exciting trailer, indeed, though you almost don’t want to watch these for fear of spoilers! I just love the expressions on Conrad and Maeve’s faces when Harry is trying to warn them about the family being in a “death spiral.” Maeve slurping on her drink, Conrad daydreaming about how much respect he got in prison. This is actually a great trailer because it shows just enough to pique our interest but doesn’t give away anything substantial. “We are the Harrigans. You don’t know who we are? Google us!” Oh my lord, this season looks totally bonkers.

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Will There Be A MobLand Season 3?

Paramount announced that MobLand would return for a third season on Thursday, September 3. The renewal announcement keeps details to a minimum. We know that Tom Hardy will return but we don’t know when. Season 1 came out in March of 2025 so Season 2 is just over a year later, which is pretty quick for modern television. With a release cadence like that we could potentially get Season 3 in late 2027 or early 2028.

Be sure to check back on this blog for my Season 2 premiere review as well as more thoughts on my YouTube channel . I’m also reviewing Apple TV’s excellent UK spy thriller, Slow Horses . You can read my Season 6 premiere review here .