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Killer thrillers

I USUALLY WRITE ABOUT television dramas I have enjoyed, but this month I’m starting with a warning. Were this an obscure series buried on a streaming service I would not bother, but season two of Gangs of London is a high-profile, big budget extravaganza, its glamorous cast clad in carefully-styled designer wardrobes as they cavort and slaughter each other across the capital.

The gangs are Albanians, Kurds, Georgians, Irish mobsters and more. At first I wondered if the drama, showing on Sky Atlantic and NOW, was a parody, a post-modern take

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