Stephen Butchard’s scripts also had the knack of ramping up tension to the point that each episode felt like a season finale. It made the first season of the show drainingly engrossing and addictive, with a juxtaposition of family and Family that may sometimes have felt familiar, but never played out.
The repercussions of the otherwise reliable Banksey’s (Mike Noble) murder of Colombian kingpin Ricardo are almost instant, as Michael’s pregnant partner Diana (Hannah Onslow) and the vengeful mob widow Cheryl (Saoirse-Monica Jackson) are taken hostage by Ricardo’s smoothly sadistic brother Felipe (Alvaro Morte), their release contingent on Michael’s recorded execution of Ricardo’s assailant. “It is one thing after another, and it is never-ending,” laments Diana. “How much more trouble can there be?”
That big bag of “lemo” (AKA cocaine) remains at large. Banksey’s fate sends his suggestible son Freddie (Adam Abbou) into a spiral. And then there’s Shaun Evans, joining the show this series. His former Phelan firm ally Ozzie Thompson is out of prison and seeking compensation for time served, regardless of how much chaos he sows in the process.
Fans of the House of Bamboo line dance will also get their fix, although edging further away from the soundtrack aisle labelled “Rat Pack Classics” might not be a bad call next time (series three has already been commissioned by the BBC).
But the biggest asset of the show is its impeccable ensemble, used to perfection. Nelson-Joyce’s coiled charisma is now tempered by increasing desperation as the stakes rise both personally and politically and his New Man aspirations wrestle with the Old Ways.
But behind the scenes, it’s the women who are pulling the strings and stealing the show: Julie Graham’s shrewd matriarch, Laura Aikman’s pragmatic dealmaker, Darci Shaw’s calming but clear-eyed Jamie whisperer and, above all, the brilliant Onslow.
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