Eddie Horniman makes his brother kill a man with a chainsaw. That’s how season 2 of “The Gentlemen” leaves things, and it’s the reason season 3 already has a job to do before a single scene is written.
Guy Ritchie’s crime drama dropped its second season on Netflix on Sept. 3. Eight episodes, and they go down fast: chase sequences, bloody shootouts, gorgeous sets, schemes folded inside other schemes. The through line is Duke Eddie Horniman (Theo James) trying to satisfy his growing ambitions as both a noble and a drug lord. If you tore through all eight and want more, here’s where things stand.
The renewal is official
Netflix and Ritchie announced the show had been renewed in August, roughly a week before the season 2 premiere. So the wait isn’t a question of whether. It’s a question of when.
How Eddie got here
Season 1 brought Eddie home from serving as a United Nations peacekeeping officer after his father’s death, where he discovered a marijuana grow house running on the family estate. He tried to clear his debt to gang leader Bobby Glass (Ray Winstone). Then he decided to go the other way entirely and get deeper into the drug business, treating it as the path back to the estate’s former glory.
That decision compounds all through season 2. Eddie becomes a hereditary peer in the House of Lords, hoping to pass legislation decriminalizing marijuana. Glass wants the bill dead.
To fund the expansion, Eddie borrows from Italian mob boss Marco Moretti (Sergio Castellitto). When the vote fails, he has to put his estate up as collateral for a loan from billionaire Fred Johnston (Giancarlo Esposito) to pay Moretti back. And then Bobby buys the debt off Johnston, which hands him even more leverage over the man he thinks is “evolving” into a worthy heir to his drug empire.
The wedding, and what came after it
Eddie also marries Moretti’s goddaughter, Italian Countess Isabella (Benedetta Porcaroli). She’s murdered the day after the wedding, in an explosion meant to kill them both.
The attack traces back to his older brother Freddy (Daniel Ings), working with Gospel John Dixon (Pearce Quigley), a cocaine dealer avenging his own brother’s death in season 1. Freddy’s plan also involves kidnapping his infant nephew so no other claimant stands between him and the inheritance.
Eddie captures John with help from a cocaine supplier connected to Bobby’s daughter Susie (Kaya Scodelario). Then he makes Freddy do the killing himself. With a chainsaw.
Where season 3 picks up
The fallout from that betrayal is the engine. Season 3 will push Eddie back into the same choice he keeps refusing to settle: stay Bobby’s lieutenant, or build a criminal empire of his own.
Eddie’s mother talked him out of killing Freddy. That doesn’t mean trusting him again is on the table, or letting him come home. The rest of the family, meanwhile, is nervous about being tied to a business this volatile, and you can hardly blame them.
Expect the “will they, won’t they” thing between Eddie and Susie to keep simmering too, now that they’re both single.
Don’t hold your breath on a date
“The Gentlemen” premiered in March 2024. Season 2 arrived in September 2026. There’s no official release date for season 3, but do the math on that gap and 2028 looks like the realistic answer.
Ritchie, who directed “Snatch” and “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” has built a second career out of streaming crime series. The second season of his Paramount Plus drama “MobLand” premieres Sept. 18, and it’s already renewed for a third. A second season of his Prime Video series “Young Sherlock” is in the works.
Which is to say the man is busy. Eddie can wait.
