Netflix has released the official teaser for The Gentlemen Season 2, and Eddie Horniman’s criminal education is clearly far from over.
Theo James returns as Eddie, the aristocratic Duke who accidentally inherited a weed empire in Season 1 and then proved he had far more gangster potential than anyone expected. Kaya Scodelario is also back as Susie Glass, the sharp, ruthless operator who helped pull Eddie deeper into her family’s criminal business.
Season 2 picks up one year after Eddie and Susie joined forces in Bobby Glass’s overseas empire. The business is expanding, the stakes are higher, and Bobby’s decisions are becoming increasingly unstable. Which, in Guy Ritchie terms, usually means everyone is about three conversations away from betrayal, gunfire or a very expensive disaster.
The teaser leans into the show’s best ingredients: tailored suits, country-house menace, criminal manners and the delicious tension between people who sound polite while actively plotting against each other. This time, the world also gets bigger, with the story moving beyond the English countryside and toward the Italian lakes.
That expansion should suit the series well. The Gentlemen works because it treats British class privilege and organised crime as two systems that understand each other disturbingly well. Season 2 appears ready to push that idea further, with Eddie and Susie trying to grow the empire while new players circle their power.
The returning cast includes Ray Winstone, Daniel Ings, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Pearce Quigley and Giancarlo Esposito, while new additions include Hugh Bonneville, Maya Jama and Chris Eubank Jr. That is a very Ritchie-friendly mix of aristocrats, gangsters, wildcards and people who look like they know exactly where the bodies are buried.
For fans of crime series, The Gentlemen Season 2 looks like a confident return to Netflix’s stylish underworld: posh estates, dirty money, shifting loyalties and Eddie slowly becoming much less of a gentleman than his title suggests.
The Gentlemen Season 2 launches September 3, only on Netflix.
