#crime-drama

#crime-drama

"When Coop's ex-wife Mel sees her son with Coop's watch, she realizes he's expecting the worst. The tragedy of their divorce is that they still remain the people best equipped to talk to each other."

"Cecilie and Angel are ready to assist, and as they do, the social structures of privilege and power that govern the elegant homes around them begin to crumble."

Whatever Fisk may say about himself, this is a man who's taken heads off with car doors and run his own crime syndicate.

Every occasion is an occasion to really get dolled up. The portrayal of Cheryl in This City Is Ours reflects the pride Liverpool women take in their appearance.

MobLand is a reflection of the longing for past decades, drawing on 90s nostalgia to create a crime drama that feels like a cultural throwback.

Whenever anything dodgy happens that could jeopardise the capital's lucrative illegal rackets, some high-level hood growls the magic words into their mobile: Call a meeting of the gangs.

"The perspective of how we shaped this character came in conversations with Ben Watkins where we didn't even talk about the character. We just talked about what was going on in our personal lives, our lives as men."

Contrary to popular misinformation across the fan base and subsequent outcry, the show's divergences from the story, tone, and characters of the games is a feature, not a bug, of the adaptation. Speaking on Ryoma Takeuchi's Kiryu in an interview with Polygon, head of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio Masayoshi Yokoyama clarified, "It's not an imitation or mimicking the game character. It's more embodying the spirit of him and making him live again as a new character. So there's no comparison. It's just something completely different - and it's cool."

The series finale reveals a darkly humorous crime narrative where life-and-death scenarios coalesce with absurd dialogues, reflecting the show's unique wacky tone.