From April 18, 2025, the third season of Gangs of London arrives in prime time on Sky Atlantic, increasingly ruthless and full of adrenaline.
Gangs of London, created by Gareth Evans and Matt Flannery, restarts with season 3, as always divided into eight episodes. Among the main protagonists, Joe Cole, Michelle Fairley, Sope Dirisu and Brian Vernel will return, along with many others, with some new entries and news that will concern the progress of the show and the peculiarities that have made it famous and unique, with a more analytical and profound point of view. At least, that's what it seems like from the first episodes. On air on Sky Atlantic and streaming on. Now, starting from April 18, 2025, Gangs of London raises expectations and consequently increases the hype.
Gangs of London and the profits threatened from many sides
Gangs of London, with its third season, seems to not miss a beat this time either. Always raw, always violent and always insistently bloody, but in the simplicity of the plot twists and the main story, it makes clear what the center of the story will be. Elliot, head of the Dumani, is forced to dig up his past, an elaborate trauma, but one that has not removed the thirst for revenge from his soul; meanwhile Sean is ready to testify and risks bringing to the bottom all the leaders of the gangs that meander in the burning London of the series. A city that continues to be illuminated, shining, only by the light of gunshots. The problems then increase when a large shipment of drugs is poisoned and all those who have used them die within a few minutes, including someone close to Luan, head of the Albanian group.
The police are also back, finally one could say, and their target is none other than Elliot, a guilty man who has changed sides and who is therefore, an unforgivable target. The first episodes of the British TV series broadcast on Sky Atlantic testify to a rich density of events, where the show immediately gets to the heart of the matter, literally throwing the viewer into the world of the series. The gruesome sequences tend to decrease slightly, but this does not mean that there are no bloody scenes, a distinctive feature of Gangs of London. The moments of struggle, however, seek greater verisimilitude, abandoning techniques such as slow motion and therefore opting for an action unfolding through martial arts, with which they had exaggerated in the second chapter. It is still too early to say that that expressive form of action has been abandoned because even in the second season, it was the subsequent mid-season episodes that transcended reality, or rather, what is the reality of the series.
Time plans and suffering that return from the past
A lot of action, anyway, that can't be missing, but also more plot, with less meticulous and excessive particularity for the trajectory of the bullets or for the studied choreography of the hand-to-hand combat. Gangs of London thus manages to involve immediately, giving life to three different dynamics, where revenge is primary and concerns not only the characters present since the first chapter, but also the new ones: those two mysterious figures who operate by hiding their faces, who shoot with the intent to kill, impossible to buy, as the Wallaces and the other gangs always try to do. The third season operates on three fronts, eternally and inextricably linked, capable of making the show even more compelling and adding narrative depth to a series that seems to have learned from its previous mistakes.
Here, that intricate tangle of the plot of the second season calms down and gives free rein to a psychological twist to be appreciated. In this third chapter of Gangs of London, there is, in fact, a higher percentage of introspection. Starting from giving information and shocking with an incipit that celebrates the characteristics of the series: violence, brutality and inhumanity, but which evokes painful memories. And discovering the connections with a present that has gone too far closes a first episode that is really successful. The second episode of the series takes up that action style, without however falling into excessiveness and while Sean Wallace's fate maintains the most cynical and rational involvement in front of harmonious sequences in their explosive dynamism, Elliot's past earns the title of symbolic emotional interest that, in Gangs of London, has not always been central.
Gangs of London: evaluation and conclusion
The series, choosing to go back in time, decides to discover the background of characters whose actions have often shocked and understand what brought them to where they are now; exactly that little something extra that the series was missing. And doing so in the third season is not only not a given, but it is the intrepid risk that a show of the level of Gangs of London had to take sooner or later. Drama and emotion alternate so balanced and proportionate in the premiere of this third season.
There is enthusiasm in the more intimate and reflective side and a compelling vigor in the spiral of action and revenge, the one that ends with the inclusion of new faces that will reveal themselves as either new enemies or new allies, but also both. Another unmistakable trait of the series is the continuous reversal caused by personalities, internal motivations and business logic. Bold and incandescent, the British crime of the series thus returns to set London on fire, which however always remains cold, indifferent and impassive in the face of the evil that unfolds and tortuously invades the streets and underground, without leaving even the smallest, hidden and insignificant corner pure and intact.