Probably my single biggest objection to the finale of Gangs of London Season 2 was the way Lale’s plotline was handled.
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History repeats itself. Gangs of London began with a funeral for the patriarch of the Wallace family, and here we are again. Just like last time, far from being an opportunity for any of the survivors to find peace, it represents the start of a war.
And, we’re back!
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Red Rooms (2023)
The fans of the popular podcast My Favorite Murder call themselves “murderinos.”
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.
Who are “The Investors”?
Of all the characters in Gangs of London who could act as the “heart” of the story – the player with the most sympathetic motives and framed in the most sympathetic light – it’s peculiar that Season 2 seems to have settled on Luan. More than Sean, more than Elliot, more than Marian, more even than Saba, at this point he’s the character I’m rooting for hardest to succeed.
So: Sean Wallace is – big, theatrical sigh – still alive.