Netflix Quietly Adds Guy Ritchie and Tom Hardy’s Hit Crime Series, But There’s a Catch

Crime thrillers have accounted for some of Netflix’s biggest hits of the year. The streamer kicked off 2026 with the release of Harlan Coben‘s Run Away, which amassed roughly 40 million views and even outpaced Stranger Things on the charts. Despite drawing heavy criticism from fans, Coben’s follow-up thriller, I Will Find You, is currently delivering an even stronger streaming performance. The divisive series is now in contention to become Netflix’s most-watched crime drama of the year, a title currently held by His & Hers (starring Jon Bernthal and Tessa Thompson). With the genre continuing to dominate the platform, it’s no surprise that Netflix is doubling down on crime dramas. The streamer’s latest addition is a gritty crime saga that should appeal to fans of Peaky Blinders.

As part of its latest catalog reshuffle, Netflix is officially adding Paramount+’s hit crime drama MobLand to its library. Featuring a starry ensemble including Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, and Helen Mirren, the series has been one of streaming’s biggest success stories since its debut in March 2025, consistently ranking among the most-watched shows even while off the air. That staying power is especially impressive given the competition. With Taylor Sheridan dominating Paramount’s crime drama landscape through hits like Tulsa King, Mayor of Kingstown, and, more recently, Marshals and Dutton Ranch, MobLand has continued to hold its own, regularly reappearing on streaming charts despite not releasing a new episode since its Season 1 finale more than a year ago.































































Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz
Which Action Hero Would Be
Your Perfect Partner?

Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt

Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.

🎖️Rambo

🍸James Bond

🏺Indiana Jones

🔧John McClane

🎭Ethan Hunt

01

You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner?
The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.





02

You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel?
How you get there is half the mission.





03

You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do?
This is when you find out what someone is really made of.





04

The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest?
Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.





05

How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission?
Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.





06

Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them?
The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.





07

Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do?
Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.





08

What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace?
A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.





09

Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with?
No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.





10

It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now?
The last question is the most honest one.





Your Partner Has Been Assigned
Your Perfect Partner Is…

Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.

Rambo

Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.

James Bond

Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.

Indiana Jones

Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.

John McClane

Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.

Ethan Hunt

Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.

What Is Tom Hardy’s ‘Mobland’ About?

Directed by Guy Ritchie and created by Ronan Bennett, MobLand sees Hardy as Harry Da Souza, a fixer for the powerful London crime family known as the Harrigans. When the family’s long-running feud with a rival syndicate threatens to spiral out of control, Harry relies on his street smarts and ruthless efficiency to keep an all-out gang war from erupting. Brosnan and Mirren play the heads of the Harrigan empire, while House of the Dragon star Paddy Considine portrays Kevin Harrigan, the patriarch’s son.

The crime drama has earned strong reviews from both critics and audiences, making it little surprise that Netflix is now bringing the series to an even wider audience. The streamer has added a countdown to its platform, confirming that MobLand Season 1 will begin streaming on July 1. The release, however, appears to be limited to international territories, with Paramount+ retaining the exclusive U.S. streaming rights.

The international rollout comes at a welcome time for the series, which recently found itself at the center of controversy after rumors claimed Hardy had been fired following an alleged altercation with one of the show’s producers. The reports sparked backlash from fans, many of whom threatened to boycott the series if the actor was written out. Those concerns have since been put to rest, with subsequent reports indicating that Hardy remains firmly attached to the show. He is confirmed to return for Season 2, slated to premiere later this year, and will reportedly also reprise the role in Season 3, which is already in development despite an official greenlight.

MobLand will stream internationally on Netflix on July 1 and is currently available to stream on Paramount+ in the U.S. As always, stay tuned to Collider for future updates.


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Release Date

March 30, 2025

Network

Paramount+

Directors

Daniel Syrkin

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    Pierce Brosnan

    Conrad Harrigan


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