Mobland (2025) on Paramount Plus, is about warring London mobs. The youngest son in a crime family is usually gay, as we have seen in Gangs of London, Shameless, Greenleaf, Animal Kingdom and The Righteous Gemstones.
Eli Gemstone's son Kelvin and grandsons Pontius and Abraham (Gavin Munn, right) are all gay. At least in my fan fiction.
Besides, it stars Pierce Brosnan, so I'll check out Episode 1.1, "Stick or Twist."
Scene 1: Harry (Tom Hardy, who played a gay mobster in RocknRolla, 2008) is hosting a mob summit where the capos, speaking various languages (all immigrants?), are arguing over a mishap involving a spoiled side of beef. Mehmet and Costas agree to a truce, but only with a handshake, not with an apology. That might be good enough: Harry goes to the restaurant upstairs and reports to his Dad (Pierce Brosnan), who doesn't think that it will stick. Besides, Mehmet and Costas have been skimming off the top.
Back downstairs: Harry orders his goons to kill them all. Equal opportunity assassins: one of the goons is a woman. Dad inspects the corpses, finishes off one ("You whore!"), then announces that there's a gap in the brown business; call the Maltese and ask for their offer.
Scene 2: Two guys at a club. Tommy (Felix Edwards) and wants to go home, but his Boyfriend Eddie (Anson Boon, gay in real life) argues that they still have "a date with Destiny...and Bethany and Alexis and Zari." So that's two girls each, or are they planning to share all of them?
Left: Anson's d*ck.
On the way to the orgy, they run into Tommy's friends Mink (Lucas Ely, straight in real life) and Kingster. (Jake Dove, can't tell) Boyfriend wants to rush him along -- the girls are waiting! -- but Tommy would rather hang out with the guys. Prefering male company to a hetero orgy? He's gay. Boyfriend fumes.
On the way, the guys take a photo: Tommy and his Boyfriend belong to rival mob families, so dating --- um, hanging out -- is epic. Boyfriend throws their phone out the window. "Nobody can know that we're dating...um, hanging out!"
Scene 3: Boyfriend Eddie suggests an exclusive leather/S&M club that he belongs to. He's only permitted one plus-one, but he bribes the bouncer to make it a plus-three. Inside, it's mostly leather-clad girls dancing. Not a gay club, darn it.
Eddie flirts with a girl and threatens a leatherman, while the other guys look embarrassed. The manager rushes over to complain about him bringing three guests instead of one.
Uh-oh, Eddie splashes a guy with his drink, then insults him, and when he complains, stabs him to death. Security tries to grab him, but he climbs onto the roof and escapes.
At the park, Eddie runs into Tommy, who is hyperventilating. "You really fucked that one up."
"He was reaching into his back pocket. It was self-defense." Then why did you run?
"You're a mad c*nt, Eddie." In Britain, it's the equivalent of "asshole," applied to men and women.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of you."
More after the break
