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This series is terrifyingly hectic. It was nominated for a BAFTA earlier this year as well as Hollywood Critics’ Association Award for Best Drama. Almost more importantly, it received an Emmy nomination for its stunts, because goeie fok, they are good! It’s like someone went through all the old Steven Seagal movies and made notes of how people get hurt, get beaten up, get limbs broken, shot or killed. Then they took that list and upgraded it for Gangs of London, because trust me, you’re going to make some noises out loud yourself when you see the creative ways in which people get hurt and fucked up. Ashtrays and darts are for instance used as weapons in a pub fight scene.  You feel this series in your teeth and jaw en jou poephol sal sommer fokken toe trek. Sommer right from that first scene of the rooftop which you might mistake for on opening scene of a Batman movie.

Like Rolling Stone tunes:

“Gangs of London will grab you by the scruff of the neck, hurl you against a wall, and remind you with repeated blunt force that the show comes from Gareth Evans, one of the great action directors alive.”

Gangs of London tells the story of how a city gets torn apart in the wake of the assassination of Finn Wallace (Golden Globe nominee Colm Meaney from Layer Cake), who just happens to be the head of London’s most powerful crime family. Seriously groot fokken kak, pappie! There is a fresh variety of characters, cultures, and languages, including Albanian, Danish, Kurdish, Urdu and Welsh reflecting a modern-day London, which is a welcoming change form the old British Bulldog brute streotypes. It is an unapologetic script which have done away with clichés. This is not the London the tourists see.

As The Atlantic puts it:

“Gangs of London exists on a fully realized plane of its own, where brutality is power, death is inevitable, and even the pigeons are on cocaine. I love it. I cannot get enough of this show.”

I promise that you won’t get enough of it either. Thankfully Gangs of London has already been confirmed for a second season. The only kak is that it it only coming our way in 2022.

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Need more streaming goodness? Check out our top 10 list of movies and TV series picks from The Plumlist. It is my to-go-to website when I’m stuck for streaming ideas from Netflix, Showmax and Amazon Prime:

#10. Lucifer’s final season “sends the Devil off with a bang” The sixth – and final – 10-episode season of Lucifer presents a departure from its previous police procedural format and focuses instead on the characters; only the first two episodes cover very lightweight quick-to-solve murder cases, probably because Lucifer Morningstar (Tom Ellis) and The Detective (aka Chloe Decker, played by Lauren German) are no longer members of LAPD on account of him being God-in-waiting and she his consultant.	On Netflix (read more)
# 9. 17 Razzie nominees and winners for an offbeat movie marathon The Golden Razzies honour the movies that didn’t quite tick the mainstream checklist but they’re still golden goodies. And don’t think a Raspberry gong means a movie’s bad – often they’re the best at the offbeat categories… like these.	On Netflix & Showmax (read more)
#8. Brand New Cherry Flavor is “an engrossing and pleasantly odd ride” My late great-aunt Edie was a gentle and sensitive soul. Whenever she’d watch television or movies, she’d keep a cushion on her lap, into which she would bury her face every time something scary or disturbing happened on-screen. Now, decades later, after watching this extremely crazy, extraordinarily weird, oftentimes hugely disturbing limited series, I can finally relate.	On Netflix (read more)
#7. Judy offers an insightful look at the life of an iconic star No one could have predicted that Renée Zellweger would play Judy Garland to an Oscar in the biographical music drama Judy. While Zellweger wouldn’t be the first or maybe even fifth person you’d expect to play Garland, she delivers a spirited career best performance. Just as versatile as her character, Zellweger makes the transition seem effortless, embracing the part with empathy and understanding.	On Showmax (read more)
#6. Stream the M-Net Sunday Night Movie in September 2021 These movies air at 21:05 every Sunday night on M-Net, channel 101, on DStv, and they will also be available to stream within 24 hours on DStv online to all DStv Premium subscribers, so you can watch them wherever and whenever suits you.	On DStv (read more)
#5. Seven reasons to watch Huisgenoot: Ware Lewensdramas South Africans have not stopped talking about Devilsdorp since it was released on Showmax at the end of July. One of the things that make the true-crime drama stand out is how the inconceivable bizarreness of event upon event makes up the canvas of the unbelievably horrific bigger picture of the Krugersdorp Killings between 2012 and 2016.	On Showmax (read more)
# 4. Gripping South African docuseries for Devilsdorp fans The unbelievable docuseries Devilsdorp has undoubtedly awakened South Africans’ appetite for true-crime dramas and I find myself searching for more of these stories, more often. It is the perfect filler between Hollywood blockbusters, but believe me – once you’ve watched one just to change up your viewing a bit, you’ll get lost in it, over and over again.	On Showmax (read more)
#3. Thumbs up for Jackie Chan: 7 action flicks starring the one and only Known for his martial arts, humorous action choreography, performing his own stunts and his Buster Keaton-style clown comedy, Chan has become an entertainment powerhouse. Having worked with Bruce Lee, John Woo and been referenced extensively in songs, cartoons, films and video games, he’s part of our pop culture stratosphere.	On Netflix & Showmax (read more)
#2. In Gangs of London, “brutality is power” Nominated earlier this year for both a BAFTA and a Hollywood Critics’ Association Award for Best Drama, as well as an Emmy for its stunts, Gangs of London tells the story of a city torn apart in the wake of the assassination of Finn Wallace (Golden Globe nominee Colm Meaney from Layer Cake), the head of its most powerful crime family. .	On Showmax (read more)
#1. The beautiful sadness that is Nêrens, Noord-Kaap Nêrens, Noord-Kaap is a remarkable drama series that offers an almost palpable nostalgic familiarity, thanks to the majestic but arid and ruthless plains of the Northern Cape as backdrop. It is a beautifully shot series, with the landscapes doing their part to help tell the story of the Adendorff family on their farm, Nêrens.	On Showmax (read more)

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Each week we take a number from 1 to 10 from our list of suggestions and put it through a randomizer to choose a trailer to show you. This week it landed on our number 1 spot, “The beautiful sadness that is Nêrens, Noord-Kaap“:
Nêrens, Noord-Kaap is a remarkable drama series that offers an almost palpable nostalgic familiarity, thanks to the majestic but arid and ruthless plains of the Northern Cape as backdrop. It is a beautifully shot series, with the landscapes doing their part to help tell the story of the Adendorff family on their farm, Nêrens.