BOND AND BANE, Mamma Mia! and Mad Max: Pierce Brosnan and Tom Hardy make a somewhat unlikely double act, but the pair have teamed up in MobLand, the ten-part Paramount+ drama that’s already been watched by nearly nine million viewers globally and is set to conclude this week. Brosnan plays Conrad Harrigan, a grizzled Irish “Godfather” at the head of an organised crime family that’s fighting for power within a global crime syndicate, while Helen Mirren is his wife, Maeve. Hardy is Harry Da Souza, their loyal fixer.
The series is set in a dimly lit and frequently cloudy present-day London, where mobsters tell their henchmen to “call the Maltese and tell them there’s a gap in the market on the brown” and nightclubs are seemingly only allowed to play…