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Ritchie has done the TV-spinoff thing before.
(A pre-ServantRupert Grint and a pre-BridgertonPhoebe Dynevor were both in that one.
A real time capsule!
It shouldnt make sense!
The cast, led by the frenemy-flirtatiousTheo Jamesand Kaya Scodelario, is game.
And hey, theres only alittleracism this time around.
Susie is, like Eddie, the smart child tasked with running their familys business.
), and about whether theyre ever going to sleep together, arguments that work because of their chemistry.
Freddy is impulsive, immature, and short-sighted.
Can you believe that these at-odds personalities complicate the Hornimans attempts to extricate themselves from the Glass crime family?
(The costume design for her character, by Loulou Bontemps and Carly Griffith, is fantastic.)
Youve only seen me in one setting.
A request for season two: Can they kiss?
That leads us into our next trope-within-a-trope!
… often by characters with military and spy backgrounds.
As Seen In:The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
And Jamess ability to believably hold a gun (remember theDivergentfilms and theUnderworldspinoffs he was in?)
does come in handy whenThe Gentlemenexplores that boundary.
More on that later.)
… who gamble a lot, especially on boxing.
Less necessary, though, is the seriess overuse of onscreen text, often rendered in difficult-to-read yellow.
Otherwise, all that font is unnecessary flair.
Also, nearly all these scenes are set to opera?
.The Trope: Hey, Vinnie Jones is here!
It did Bullet-Tooth Tony good to settle down!
Seen in:King Arthur: Legend of the Sword;Sherlock Holmes;The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Robert Downey Jr.s Sherlock Holmes and Jude Laws Dr. John Watson (a veteran!)
prevent a coup attempt on the monarchy and maintain the sanctity of the British Empire inSherlock Holmes.
If Ritchie gives the London family in hisRay Donovanspinoffroyal connections, this theorys got legs.
