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Guy Ritchie has been making British criminals look damn watchable since Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, so by the time he made The Gentlemen for Netflix, we already knew the drill, except Eddie Horniman was never supposed to enjoy the criminal bit as much as he does.

After spending most of season one trying to get the family estate out of bed with a cannabis empire, Eddie ended up doing the very sensible thing of sticking around and going into business with Susie instead. Talk about a turn-up for the books.

Season two takes a year’s leap, and now they are pushing the operation beyond England while Bobby Glass starts losing his touch. Not ideal when you’re running a criminal empire, really. Eddie is not exactly resisting anymore either, which is half the fun. The man has had a taste of power and, well, that usually ends brilliantly on television.

So if the finale left you at sixes and sevens, don’t throw in the towel yet; Netflix has five shows that should keep the criminal itch well scratched.

Five Netflix shows to watch if you loved The Gentlemen:

How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) (2019–)

People do the stupidest things after they get their hearts broken; we’ve all been there, but Moritz Zimmermann takes the idea too far in How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast). His girlfriend comes home after a year abroad and seems rather interested in someone else, so Moritz, in a moment of teenage logic, decides ecstasy could sort everything out. Yeah, that’s his plan. Feel better about yourself now, don’t you?

Naturally, it blows up in his face. Lenny gets dragged into the mess, and what starts as one foolish attempt to impress a girl turns into an online drug business that becomes far too huge for Moritz to handle in a lifetime. Honestly, the boy needed a hobby. So if The Gentlemen was fun because Eddie kept finding new layers of a criminal world he did not understand, Moritz gives you the same thing with the teenage version.

FUBAR (2023–2025)

It’s hard to imagine Arnold Schwarzenegger as a CIA agent in a spy comedy, but the makers of FUBAR were a step ahead of us. Oh, this was bound to become a circus. In FUBAR, Luke Brunner is one assignment away from freedom when the CIA sends him back into the field to rescue another operative. Fine. Sounds like standard spy business. Except that the operative is his daughter Emma. Well, well, well. Dad is CIA, daughter is CIA, and neither has a clue. Seriously, what sort of family is this?

The father-daughter duo is trying to stop criminals while arguing about years of lies. Luke and Emma can sure survive gunfire, but one family conversation? Hell no. Sounds a bit like Eddie and Susie having arguments about crime; it’s just that here, it’s a father and daughter duo. But if you want to see Schwarzenegger out of his typical action avatar, this is your chance.

The Brothers Sun (2024)

Crime-family politics were already delicious in The Gentlemen, but The Brothers Sun takes one look at that mess and feels like child’s play. Here, we’re dealing with a Taiwanese triad boss being attacked, and just then, his lethal eldest son Charles races to Los Angeles to protect his mother and younger brother Bruce. One tiny problem: Bruce has no clue his family runs a criminal empire. None. Imagine finding out that your relatives are gangsters because now assassins pay visits to you regularly… As crazy as it sounds.

And then there is Mama Sun, written with Michelle Yeoh in mind from the start, because apparently, this family needed force in the room, and nobody does it better than her. Charles can face killers without flinching, but dealing with his mother and brother? Oh, hell no. Sort of a similar situation to FUBAR, no.

Florida Man (2023)

The title Florida Man comes in with a wink, and the show intends to earn it well. Creator Donald Todd, a Florida native, takes the internet’s chaos meme and builds a crime caper around Mike Valentine, a disgraced former cop with a gambling problem and a debt to the mob. Then comes the job: go back to Florida and find the gangster’s runaway girlfriend, Delly. Simple? Oh, please.

Mike finds murder instead. Then family secrets surface, and comes the hidden gold. This is the sort of man who goes to fix something but ends up making a bigger disaster. Just stop touching things, man. And doesn’t this chain reaction of back-to-back disasters sound like pure The Gentlemen? One bad choice cracks open the next problem until everyone is facing consequences. Sounds like nobody is a gentleman here.

Kleo (2022-2024)

Kleo opens with a gut-wrenching betrayal, and oh, she does not take it well. In 1987, East German assassin Kleo Straub finishes a mission in West Berlin and is rewarded with prison by the very system she served. Then the Berlin Wall comes down, and Kleo walks free. And now, every person who had a hand in ruining her life has reason to panic.

She wants names. She wants answers. And judging by her talent for disguises and spectacular violence, she is not planning to ask nicely. You go, girl! Netflix called the German series “ludicrous”, which tells you more than enough. The Gentlemen have criminals trying to stay ahead of trouble, while Kleo (although she does the same) does it with revenge as her driver. Eddie may talk his way through danger. Kleo? Tch. She looks at subtlety but picks the explosive option.