{"id":23773,"date":"2025-07-08T16:40:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=23773"},"modified":"2025-07-08T16:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:40:07","slug":"helen-mirren-tom-hardy-pierce-brosnan-and-two-other-reasons-to-watch-mobland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2025\/07\/08\/helen-mirren-tom-hardy-pierce-brosnan-and-two-other-reasons-to-watch-mobland\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Mirren, Tom Hardy & Pierce Brosnan and Two Other Reasons to Watch MobLand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If Mirren, Hardy & Brosnan as stars of a London family gangster series dreamed up by Day of the Jackal creator Ronan Bennett aren\u2019t enough reasons to get you to watch MobLand (on M-Net from 10 July at 9pm), why do you even watch TV?<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Harrigans are an Irish, London-based crime family who find themselves in a battle with the Stevensons that could end both syndicates – and their lives. Harry Da Souza (Hardy) is a street-smart and formidable fixer employed by the Harrigan family to navigate and mitigate the escalating conflict threatening their empire. As loyalties collide Harry is tasked with protecting the Harrigans’ interests and preventing an all-out gang war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We promised five reasons, so, for the sake of fairness, let\u2019s lead with the headline cast as one reason alone\u2026 Brosnan stars as Harrigan family patriarch Conrad, alongside his darkly dangerous wife Maeve (Mirren), along with Hardy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helen Mirren has both an Academy Award and a BAFTA for Best Actress in a Leading Role, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, four Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, a Peabody Award, and Laurence Olivier Award and a Tony Award. Now she plays a scheming psychopath goading her husband into ever-expanding acts of mayhem and violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brosnan has had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 1997, has been honoured with the Irish Film and Television Academy Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Irish Film – and was James Bond. Four times, for goodness\u2019 sake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom Hardy received an Order of the British Empire (OBE) from then-Prince Charles in recognition of his work in film in 2023 and was named Best Actor at the Critics\u2019 Choice Movie Awards in 2016 for Mad Max: Fury Road. He was also Bane in The Dark Knight Rises. Bane with an OBE. Imagine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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