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Gangs of London(2020)

Archived · Sky Atlantic

8.01625 eps
S04
Action & AdventureDramaCrimeThriller
ON AIR: JAN 15Season 4Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

Gangs of London runs on faction chaos: when the head of the city's dominant crime family is assassinated, every competing group moves at once, and the series tracks that scramble across multiple fronts simultaneously. The action is frequent and visceral, not rationed out as punctuation between dialogue scenes, so the physical violence and the political maneuvering carry equal weight throughout.

No alliance here stays intact long enough to feel safe. Loyalties fracture episode to episode, and the deception runs in every direction, meaning characters who seem aligned in one scene are actively undermining each other in the next. The revenge motivations are rarely clean or satisfying when they land, which keeps the whole thing unstable in a way that matches the world it depicts.

Best for

high-octane gang warfare, betrayal-heavy alliances and Action & Adventure

Story lane

Action & Adventure and Drama

Commitment

Season 4 · 25 episodes

Where

Sky Atlantic

Official Premise

Tells the story of London being torn apart by the turbulent power struggles of its international gangs and the sudden power vacuum that's created when the head of London's most powerful crime family is assassinated.

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