The Lordsthe very accomplished return of Guy Ritchie
A little bit of Successiona little bit of breaking Badbut above all a lot of Guy Ritchie for the series The Lords, or the art of representing criminal England with humour, sympathy, irony and violence. The 2020 film of the same name, already a success, brought Guy Ritchie back to the energy and style of his first feature films,Fraud, Crimes and Botany AND RocknRolla. Quentin Tarantino’s distant cinematic cousin, Guy Ritchie, loves gangsters and in-depth stories and has a lot of fun with a pleasure of communication putting criminals in extreme and borderline absurd situations, ultimately more surprising and entertaining than scary.
Whether in a gypsy camp Ripin the middle of the ultra rich of RocknRolla, the English director loves to invite all social classes into his criminal intrigues, offering fun comparisons of worlds, where everyone has their own accent, their own mannerisms and their own appearance. It is therefore a generous entertainment, with a large and detailed universe, that The Lords delivers with enough style and sincerity to make it one of the best recent Netflix series.
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With the series The LordsGuy Ritchie has the time to extensively develop everything that was in the film The Lords, and we can therefore focus on the details. The luxury cars, the paintings, the well-stocked wardrobes. There is Succession In The Lordsas we explore the inheritance of an estate in an English aristocratic family. Once the patriarch of the Halstead family dies, it is Eddie who becomes Duke, albeit second in line of succession. He must take over the family business, and in particular a very particular file: the leasing of their land to a crime boss who runs a huge cannabis farm there.
Eddie will then immerse himself in the twists and turns of a criminal empire, which has established itself in a dozen estates of penniless aristocrats across England. His goal? Get your family out of this dangerous association. But Eddie will prove gifted and a formidable match with Susie Glass, daughter of Bobby Glass and “CEO” of this empire. After a period of observation, he decides to be much more involved in the initiative of events…
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If it’s still there Succession, it is in the right measure with which wealth is shown. Enough to make you travel, without being ostentatious or surreal. But it is also because the two series share the sense of Shakespearean tragedy, with its blood ties, its betrayals, its violence and its dilemmas. In The Lordshe would therefore be Shakespeare on coke while writing.
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The balance of the series, between pragmatism and dramatic flashes, is so careful that Guy Ritchie and his screenwriters allow themselves to develop for Giancarlo Esposito a character directly taken from the one he played. breaking Bad. There he was Gus Fring, now he’s Stanley Johnston (with a “T”) in The Gentlemen. That is to say, an omnipotent and extremely wealthy methamphetamine trafficker, whose exquisite sophistication hides extreme aggression.
The main cast is attractive, with Theo James as a phlegmatic but determined young duke and apprentice dealer, joined by his mad, dependent older brother played by Daniel Ings. Kaya Scodelario in poisonous and reckless criminal, also caught in a difficult succession. There’s also Vinnie Jones as a discreet, loyal and efficient ranger, and Ray Winstone as a cockney crime boss. In short, everything is there so that we don’t get bored, and as such the bet is largely a winning one.
With eight episodes of around 1 hour each, you might worry that it will end up dragging. This is not the case, and although it sometimes risks redundancy, when it is not the association for the soundtrack between energetic hip hop and disturbing classical composition (another reminiscence of Succession) that awakens attention, is the development of the few subplots that amuses and entertains with the care given to it.
Ironically, if The Lords it is therefore one of Netflix’s best recent offerings, on which it clearly stands out the aesthetic and narrative level, with the cinematic ambition otherwise absent in the vast majority of series produced and distributed by the platform. An example to follow.
Source: Cine Serie
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