Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock… TV Series Is a Must-Watch

After watching The Gentlemen, many viewers find themselves hunting for more Guy Ritchie — and Lock, Stock… is worth the dig. This seven-episode Channel 4 series isn’t a sequel to Jason Statham’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; Statham and Nick Moran don’t appear.

Ritchie and executive producer Matthew Vaughn repurposed the same raw materials — London’s East End, catastrophically bad decisions and an atmosphere of cheerful menace — to build a new world. The story follows four friends — Moon, Jamie, Bacon and Lee — who run a pub called The Lock and repeatedly mishandle valuable objects that fall into their orbit.

In “... And Two Hundred Smoking Kalashnikovs,” for example, they accidentally steal a van full of AK-47s and escalate a gang war. Ralph Brown plays the unflappable crime lord Miami Vice, with Christopher Adamson as his enforcer Three Feet. Ritchie co-wrote the 90-minute pilot, “...

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