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As Kevin prepares for all-out war, Harry kills two birds with one stone.

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Harry&apos;s game

&quot;MobLand&quot; has extremely colorful villains: Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Geoff Bell as their adversary Richie, but the show revolves around Harry, the anti-hero vividly depicted by Tom Hardy. He can do anything, even many things at once, yet still manages to project a vulnerability.

This episode, directed by Anthony Byrne (not Guy Ritchie this time) has Harry in charge of cleaning up the royal mess created by Eddie Harrigan, with an all-out gang war seeming imminent. His &quot;Hail, Mary&quot; effort to coverup for Eddie seems doomed to failure, but it is still tense and exciting to see him and Kevin Harrigan (Paddy Considine) try it out.

Yet another Harrigan, Bella (Lara Pulver) has put her foot in it by betraying her dad for a fast buck but instead finding herself in the blackmail hotseat, and of course only Harry can fix her dilemma.

Like most if not all dramatic TV content, it&apos;s the writers (Ronan Bennett and Jez Butterworth) who run this show, not exec producer Ritchie. I like their pizazz (even though the C-word used as British slang in every other sentence falls poorly on my American ears), but they lost me when they introduce yet another subplot for Harry quite awkwardly and by utter coincidence when he encounters an old nemesis (prison guard) who beat him, as an obvious and digressive set-up to some future episode showdown. Clearly the auteurs believe in the &quot;in for a penny, in for a pound&quot; principle, but there has to be a limit to how many problems they can put on Harry&apos;s plate before the show just becomes silly.

"MobLand" has extremely colorful villains: Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Geoff Bell as their adversary Richie, but the show revolves around Harry, the anti-hero vividly depicted by Tom Hardy. He can do anything, even many things at once, yet still manages to project a vulnerability.

This episode, directed by Anthony Byrne (not Guy Ritchie this time) has Harry in charge of cleaning up the royal mess created by Eddie Harrigan, with an all-out gang war seeming imminent. His "Hail, Mary" effort to coverup for Eddie seems doomed to failure, but it is still tense and exciting to see him and Kevin Harrigan (Paddy Considine) try it out.

Yet another Harrigan, Bella (Lara Pulver) has put her foot in it by betraying her dad for a fast buck but instead finding herself in the blackmail hotseat, and of course only Harry can fix her dilemma.

Like most if not all dramatic TV content, it's the writers (Ronan Bennett and Jez Butterworth) who run this show, not exec producer Ritchie. I like their pizazz (even though the C-word used as British slang in every other sentence falls poorly on my American ears), but they lost me when they introduce yet another subplot for Harry quite awkwardly and by utter coincidence when he encounters an old nemesis (prison guard) who beat him, as an obvious and digressive set-up to some future episode showdown. Clearly the auteurs believe in the "in for a penny, in for a pound" principle, but there has to be a limit to how many problems they can put on Harry's plate before the show just becomes silly.

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