From the magazine James Delingpole

It should be illegal for TV baddies to profit from their psychopathic acts

A lot of viewers are now so coarsened by TV violence that they don’t even notice it. But I still do – and Paramount+'s MobLand hits new lows

James Delingpole James Delingpole
Tom Hardy as Harry Da Souza, chief fixer for a London-based Irish crime family called the Harrigans: Paramnount+'s MobLand 
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 26 April 2025
issue 26 April 2025

I’m about to give away the opening scene of the latest gangsters-are-cool drama MobLand. Don’t worry. It won’t spoil anything. By the end of this review you won’t want to watch even a moment of this dog’s breakfast of an atrocity of charmless, witless, misbegotten, amoral tripe anyway.

So we’re in a basement with Tom Hardy, playing his usual amiably ruthless hard-man character.

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