I thought one of the better shows of 2024, somewhat of a surprise, was The Gentlemen on Netflix, the Guy Ritchie crime drama starring Theo James and Kaya Scodelario. It seemed to perform well, and it has high audience scores, a stellar 8/10 on IMDB.

But it took a surprisingly long time to get renewed for season 2. After its March 2024 airing, it wasn’t until August 2024 that it got picked back up, an odd five month gap for reasons that remain unclear.

While that was good news about season 2, a new update is sort of disappointing about how long it’s going to take to get here. The Gentlemen season 2 has just now begun filming in the UK. The second season will have eight episodes like the first, and while it has a target date of 2026, that gap between seasons is going to be…long.

This is what happens when you wait 5 months to renew a show and don’t start shooting it until over a year after the first season airs. 14 months, to be exact. I’m trying to estimate how long filming will take and then post-production. Comparing it to another perhaps similar series, The Night Agent, that show started filming in January 2024 and did not air until January 2025, so a full year. If we’re doing a year from now, that’s effectively May 2026. That means it will be over two years between seasons of The Gentlemen, which is pushing the high end of even the slow streaming era where series usually take 1.5-2 years. Some especially bad cases (Squid Game, Wednesday) can take three years, so at least we’re not there.

Still, this seems like a series that should have been greenlit sooner than it was and started filming sooner than it was. I’m curious as to what the delay was here, whether it was actor availability or some other consideration. But now that it’s happening, at least we’ll get to see where things go eventually. In a year, it seems, at best, which is a shame.

I would definitely recommend the first season if you haven’t watched it yet. Guy Ritchie may have had his ups and downs, but this is going back to what he does best, UK-based crime families and murders and heists, and it feels like the good old days. This expands on the concept of the movie with the same name, but it is better than The Gentlemen film in every way.

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