How many episodes are in A Thousand Blows?

A Thousand Blows has 6 episodes in this listed season.

When does A Thousand Blows premiere?

A Thousand Blows premieres on 2026-01-09.

Is A Thousand Blows a new series?

A Thousand Blows is a returning series (Season 2).

A Thousand Blows(2025)

Also known as Roads to Freedom

Archived · Disney+

7.46 eps

S02

DramaHistory

ON AIR: JAN 9Season 2Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

A Thousand Blows drops two Jamaican newcomers into the criminal ecosystem of 1880s London's East End, where bare-knuckle boxing and gang hierarchy overlap in ways that make violence both livelihood and social currency. The pacing favors confrontation and escalation; quieter moments exist mainly to set up the next collision of ambition or force.

Mary Carr and her all-female Forty Elephants run a sharp parallel thread to the boxing underworld, and the friction between these rival power structures gives the story much of its momentum. Hezekiah and Alec have to navigate both, earning standing through cunning or force in a world where loyalty shifts and Sugar Goodson's criminal reach sets the ceiling on everyone else's ambitions.

Best for

bare-knuckle boxing, east end gang and Drama

Story lane

Drama and History

Commitment

Season 2 · 6 episodes

Where

Disney+

Official Premise

Hezekiah and Alec, two friends from Jamaica, finds themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London's East End. Here they meet Mary Carr, Queen of an all-female criminal gang known as the Forty Elephants, and run afoul of Sugar Goodson, criminal kingpin and notorious boxer.

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