Is <em>MobLand</em> Coming Back for Season 2?

Have you watched MobLand yet? The Paramount+ series launched as one of the most-watched debuts for the streamer earlier this spring, filling a Peaky Blinders-sized hole for a proper mob drama in viewers's hearts (for now). Now, as we head toward the finale, a season 2 renewal is certainly right around the corner.

The series stars Tom Hardy as Harry Da Souza, a fixer for the Harrigan crime family led by Conrad (Pierce Brosnan), his wife Maive (Helen Mirren), and their son Kevin (Paddy Considine). The Harrigan family is at war with rival London gang the Stevensons over their drug empire but matters escalate once the Stevensons’s heir is found dead.

Executive Producer Guy Ritchie and directed the first two episodes of the series, alongside creator Ronan Bennett (Top Boy, The Day of the Jackal), who initially pitched the project as a spin-off of Showtime’s Ray Donovan with Liev Schreiber. Somewhere along the way—potentially around the Paramount and Showtime merger—the network reworked the spin-off as a standalone series. Then, MobLand debuted to 8.8 million viewers in its first week, according to Deadline, placing the series among the top three most-watched shows on Paramount+, alongside Taylor Sheridan’s Landman and 1923.

In the penultimate episode, the Harrigan family continued their search for a mole within their operation, but not before Conrad and Maeve were arrested. Now, Harry and co. must work to free the Harrigans and stop the Stevensons from getting to them in the finale on Sunday, June 1.

We’ll have to wait to find out who survives the season 1 finale before coming to a more definite answer on season 2. So far, all four of the show’s major billings—Hardy, Brosnan, Mirren, and Considine—are available to return. Geoff Bell’s Richie Stevenson, the patriarch of the rival gang family and the main antagonist of season 1, also remains alive as we head into the season finale.

While I can’t say who survives until the final episodes, it appears Hardy’s fixer will walk away clean—and with plans for season 2.

“The plan is definitely to see more seasons,” Hardy told The Hollywood Reporter in April. “The question is: Does it become international? There are international elements to organized crime, which are touched on in season one and the control of drugs and ammunition and weapons and people and all kinds of things that go through Europe and from Africa through to South America, Pakistan and the variable commodities that move around Europe. There are families that are involved in each European country that are vying for power to have that status to be able to move these kind of commodities through and who polices that and how that fits into a world stage.”

Certainly, some big ideas! With MobLand’s success so far, I’m willing to bet that Paramount will hear him out.