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Well we can say third is a charm, Episode 3 of Mobland really escalate things as I was expecting but we still have silly things going on as I mention on my previous post, the episode titled "Plan B" since that is exactly what Kevin and Harry come up with after Richie Stevenson blows up Kevin house after getting tired of waiting for Harry or any of the Harrigans to answers where is his son Tommy, I wonder if Richie is that powerful that the Harrigans don't go straight up war with him but to kinda try to avoid it to the point it almost look like they running from him? after he blew up Kevin's house, after all he is Comrad oldest soon, isn't that going too far?
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31510819
- Platform: Paramount+
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The episode does focus more on the drama side of things instead of action because literally after the bomb triggers on the very first scene, nobody shoots anyone until almost the end when Richie puts two bullets on his son murder knees, this hole drama its all coming from Eddie and Maeve because to be honest it feels everything happens because of them, its almost like the series wants the audience to either hate them or love them, embrace the madness or just straight up hate, to a certain point that's good because at least its making you feel something about the characters.
Here is why it feels like the Harringans respect too much Richie or fear him, but its a mix bag too. After Richie blew up Kevin's house the Harrigans dont pull up soldiers on the streets looking for the Stevensons, they first call in everyone on the family and get them to Comrad house, this is suppose to be consider a safe place and I say suppose because I got a feeling Richie might bring war to Comrad place but that is just me speculating. Harry also had to wake up his family and get them out of the radar and this is when you experience that psychological warfare, two shooters are staying out of Harry's place to put him down until he confront them with Comrad on the phone, on speaker, and they basically sht their pants when Harry threaten them with "kill me and Comrad is listening....he will go after your family" and they back out just like that, no shots fire, no nothing. I have to give them its some dark humor in between and shows the power of the Harrigan family on the streets but we want some action, some shooting, fights, blood, head shots, its suppose to be Mobland, I hope it gets darker soon.
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The meat of the episode comes up when Kevin confronts Eddie, his son; after Harry shows him what he had a guy called Valjon, the owner of the club he was at with Tommy on episode one; killed Tommy and cut him into pieces almost like saving his body for some reason. Eddie plans backfire because I guess he was planning to hide it from everyone or he probably did think about it and said fuck it lets go to war but without taking responsibility for the body. Its when Kevin confronts Eddie that some might start showing showing some love for Eddie almost like dammn he did that? and hate for Kevin because he is so fkn soft with his son, to the point he had to ask Comrad to discipline Kevin for him, to make things worst Eddie gets a pass to first base because Maeve pulling the strings for him, wtf!!!!
At this point we all know war is coming but Harry and Kevin still want to avoid it, we don't know why yet because if they had so much power should also say fuck it like Richie but I get there is always a side that thinks war is not good for business. They had Valjon tight up inside a container with plastic all over it to avoid blood spillage, they even wearing plastic suits and interrogate Valjon but at the end tells him to remember what Harry said the first time they met "...help the family and the family will help you" , Valjon knows he is a dead man already, Kevin and Harry threaten him to kill his family and son but Richie would the same if he ever finds out Valjon lies to him, yeah Harry and Kevin want Valjon to lie to Richie almost saying this was an isolated incident and he acted by himself. I think its going to work based on some pictures I have seen online where the Harrigans are at a funeral paying respects, I guess its at Tommy so Valjon dies and comes through with the Harrigans?, I got mix feelings if that's the case because it would be just too easy but I get that part of the audience might be rooting for Harry here.
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Besides the Eddie and Tommy incident it feels like the series is brewing in the back the Bella and Harry relationship, until now we have only seen Bella Harrigan, that's Kevin's wife; teasing Harry every time they see each other, trying to get him in bed with her. Bella seem to always call Harry when ever she is in some sort of trouble but not like the rest of the family, all this happens behinds the family back because Harry even says he doesn't know sht about her when he gets ask. Harry is her shining armor guy, he is also trying to keep things professional but I could only guess at some point he will get tired of the problems he is having with his wife at home and everything going on with the Harrigan & Stevenson war and say fuck it, I'm doing Bella to blow up some steam.
Bella has also been a bit naughty as she have this hate for her father, probably the same old story or her been hurt because he doesn't respect her or look at her over the shoulder, that is not clear and has very little context but her father has an important charge at the government and he is corrupt. Bella got him into a meeting with a man, Antoine a Frenchman who is suppose to be Bella's client; they recorded her father during a meeting to proof he is taking bribes to get ppl meet the UK Prime Minister so Bella can have the upper hand over her father, she does mention its not about the money but the power this would give her but her plan backfires when Antoine doesn't give her the tape and now is trying to blackmail her. Antoine probably thinks well after all I can get the meeting and still get my money out of Bella, this is when Bella ring Harry and he runs to her to see whats up.
I enjoy that the series is not falling short on sides stories, we got Harry's problems at home, the Harrigans & Stevensons war and we got Bella story too, plus there is something coming up with one of Comrad son who is trying to pull a deal that would do a lot of money for the family, so there is a lot going on and still doesn't feel that the series gets distracted with a single story, probably the reason for this is because almost in all this story lines Harry has something to do with since he is the man who makes things happen, the man you call when you have problems.
Its been very entertaining although its not perfect, it has its moments of greatness and episode 3 has way more action and intense drama although we fall into those moments where it feels silly, like why not going after Richie and kill him??? after all they were going to put him down on episode 1 right after he sat down with Harry for the first time to talk about the Tommy situation, and is Richie really going to fall for Valjon saying it was just him and the Harrigans had nothing to do? is he seriously going to take all the pain Richie is going to put him through and not sing like bird? still this episode its a 7.5/10 for me.
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