‘The Gentlemen’ season 2 now has a Netflix release date and will take Eddie and Susie all the way to Italy.
Netflix has now released the first preview of ‘The Gentlemen’ season 2, one of its most successful crime series of recent years. The platform has unveiled the official trailer and new images from the upcoming episodes, also confirming that the show will return on 3 September with a more ambitious, dangerous story packed with new power struggles.
The preview brings back Theo James as Eddie Horniman and Kaya Scodelario as Susie Glass, two characters who ended the first season united by an alliance as unexpected as it was explosive. Key cast members including Ray Winstone, Joely Richardson and Vinnie Jones also return, once again forming part of this universe shaped by organised crime, British aristocracy and illegal business dressed in sophistication.
The new season of ‘The Gentlemen’ begins one year after Eddie and Susie decided to join forces within Bobby Glass’ international criminal empire. Now, the pair are running the operation together, but the stability of the business begins to falter when Bobby’s increasingly erratic decisions threaten to put everything they have built at risk. Eddie and Susie will have to decide whether to intervene directly or allow the situation to spiral towards a point of no return.
One of the biggest changes in this second instalment will be the story’s international expansion. The trailer shows how the business reaches Italy, specifically the Lake Maggiore area, where Eddie and Susie attempt to establish a new base of operations. This new setting promises to bring a more elegant and dangerous dimension to the series, blending the British style of the first season with a Mediterranean atmosphere marked by fragile alliances, hidden interests and enemies who are difficult to read.
According to executive producer and co-writer Matthew Read, Eddie is entering a particularly ambitious phase. The character is described as “extremely aspirational”, increasingly drawn to the idea of accumulating power and expanding his influence. That ambition will be one of the major narrative engines of the season, pushing him even deeper into the criminal world and testing the alliances that still keep him standing.
The arrival in Italy will also introduce key new characters. Sergio Castellitto will play Marco Moretti, an influential crime boss described as “extremely ruthless and elegant”. His presence promises to become one of the major threats facing Eddie and Susie, especially in a context where every move can have unpredictable consequences.
Joining him is Michele Morrone as Cico Maldini, a volatile fixer who helps the pair manage their business on Italian soil. However, everything suggests that his role will be far from entirely reliable. Matthew Read has already suggested that Cico gives them very little reason to trust him, opening the door to betrayals, internal tensions and increasingly dangerous power games.
As his criminal empire grows, Eddie will also try to strengthen his position within the legitimate and aristocratic establishment. His desire for status and recognition will add new layers of pressure to his relationship with Susie, forcing him to ask himself how far he is willing to go in order to gain influence. The season will explore precisely that clash between ambition, loyalty and survival, with risky negotiations, betrayals and disputes over money and power.
The relationship between Eddie and Susie will remain one of the central pillars of ‘The Gentlemen’. Although the two share an obvious connection, their motivations do not always point in the same direction. The new episodes will test that bond with increasingly difficult obstacles, without losing the emotional tension and chemistry that made the pair one of the great attractions of the first season.
