So: Sean Wallace is – big, theatrical sigh – still alive.
Category: Guest Post
The first shot of Gangs of London S2 E2 is pretty inspired, NGL.
There was little doubt that Gangs of London would be renewed for a second season: it was a big hit for Sky Atlantic in 2020, to say nothing of the prestige it conferred upon production company Pulse Films.
I have my bones to pick with the way that Gangs of London’s first season wraps up – quite a few of them, honestly – but I also don’t want to come out of the gate sounding too negative.
There’s a scene early in Episode 8 of Gangs of London which finds Sean Wallace at his lowest ebb.
The last time I watched Gangs of London’s first season all the way through was in the spring of 2020, fully four years ago now, but my memory of the show up to this point has, I think, been pretty sharp.
After the apocalyptic farmhouse siege sequence that closed out Gangs of London’s fifth, parenthetical episode, the first question on everyone’s lips was: how the hell can the show possibly top that in the four episodes left in the season?
Episode 4 of Gangs of London ended on a heck of a cliffhanger, with Elliot bleeding out on the Wallaces’ dining table, while an assassin embedded in the wait staff (Laura Sofia Bach) almost succeeds in gunning down Sean in his own home.
Something that tends to get buried in the discussions I’ve heard around Gangs of London is that it’s a videogame adaptation.
“Gangs of London” is quite a freighted title to give to a piece of media.