“Gangs of London” is quite a freighted title to give to a piece of media.
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Something that tends to get buried in the discussions I’ve heard around Gangs of London is that it’s a videogame adaptation.
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.
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?
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.
There’s a scene early in Episode 8 of Gangs of London which finds Sean Wallace at his lowest ebb.
At around the thirty-four-minute mark of Gangs of London’s second season finale, we check in with Ed and Shannon Dumani, who are keeping a watchful eye out through the curtains of their room in the Red Lion Motel. In the adjoining ensuite bathroom, filling the space from wall to wall, they’ve piled the entirety of Asif’s stolen heroin shipment. They’ve pulled a double-reverse-Uno-card betrayal on Marian, and stolen the shipment from her and Luan in turn.
You know who feels curiously absent from Season 2 of Gangs of London? Finn Wallace.
S2 E6 of Gangs of London is the shortest episode of the entire show, as of this writing: a slender 49 minutes. Within that concentrated frame, it compresses some of the very best and the very worst qualities of Season 2.
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