The Gentlemen
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It does if you watch television in 2024.
Surely lightning cant strike half a dozen times, right?
The result, so far, is a scream.
Hes even enlisted in the army, working as a U.N. peacekeeper on the Turkey-Syria border.
Its the will of God!
A striking mystery woman soon solves the mystery for him.
Her name is Susie Glass (Kaya Scodelario).
Since cash-poor aristocrats need to make the money somehow, everyone wins.
After all, neither he nor Susie want trouble.
Freddy, meanwhile, pitches in by repeatedly fucking things up.
First, he nearly blows a million pounds on a bogus boxing bet.
His beating is a message for Eddie as much as anyone else.
Its when Tommy Dixon comes to collect that things truly go tits up, as they say.
For Freddy, the answer is only so much.
Episode two, Tackle Tommy Woo Woo,has our gang in cleanup mode.
(Eddie gives himself away by tripping over and disconnecting a wire.
(Giancarlo Esposito, a refined and mild-mannered meth kingpin?
Well, now Ive seen everything.)
Eddie claims Jethro must have stolen it, which the Gospel buys.
He insists, however, on keeping the gun until he can use it on Jethro.
Stack any two episodes of a crime thriller on top of one another and itll sound complicated.
ButThe Gentlemens scripts, by Ritchie and Matthew Read, are a breeze.
I thinkBreaking Badproved the watchability of that particular business model.
For another, every scene is redolent with this marvelously dry sense of black humor.
Besides, hes an engaging leading man if you need a handsome guy of his age.
The other real standout in the early going is Daniel Ings.
Zooted posh nincompoop is easy to do but not easy to domemorably, and thats what Ings manages.
I thought he could handle it; I did.
Its a terrific performance.
There are a lot of quietly hilarious exchanges of misplaced politeness like that.
The Gospel deadpanning, Would it be alright if I dropped by?
in a voice that implies hes not asking at all.
Have you got any?
