Can You Catch Up on MobLand by Friday?
On Friday, September 4, MobLand sat at No. 69 on CrossBinge's TV chart. By last Friday, September 11, it was No. 57. Twelve places is a modest move, but no title already on one of our five charts climbed further last week, and it did it without a new episode. The last one aired on June 1, 2025.
So why is it climbing? The honest answer is that we cannot tell you. Our charts blend activity on CrossBinge with critical standing. They record movement. They know nothing about motive.
What we can show you is the calendar. On September 3, the day before our window opened, the show was renewed for a third season. And season two arrives this Friday, September 18. Either date could be the reason. Neither is proof, and we are not going to dress a guess up as an answer.
Ten episodes, five nights
If you never started, the arithmetic is kind. Season one is ten episodes of 41 to 59 minutes, call it seven to ten hours. Two a night from Monday and you finish on Friday, the day season two begins.
The setup: the Harrigans, a London crime family at odds with the south London Stevenson gang, and Harry Da Souza, the fixer they pay to make problems disappear. Tom Hardy plays Harry. Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren are Conrad and Maeve Harrigan, and the show is at its best when those two sit in a room deciding what the family can afford to lose. Guy Ritchie directed the first two episodes, Ronan Bennett created the series and Jez Butterworth runs it.
Set your expectations where the critics did. Rotten Tomatoes' consensus calls it a gangster saga that "hardly reinvents the genre but nails its conventions with crunchy style and memorable performances." That is exactly right. Come for Hardy, Mirren and Brosnan, not for surprises.
If it turns out to be your kind of trouble, Peaky Blinders has Hardy as Alfie Solomons, leader of a Jewish gang in Camden Town, across series two to six. The Gentlemen is Ritchie's own Netflix crime series, spun off from his 2019 film, and its eight-episode second season arrived on September 3.
One pick per chart, priced in hours
One pick from each of our five charts, from 46 minutes to about 24 hours.
TV. MobLand, as above. Three other shows climbed ten places or more. The Terror (No. 93 to No. 82) traps two Royal Navy ships in Arctic ice on the lost Franklin expedition, from Dan Simmons's 2007 novel The Terror, in ten episodes that stand alone; season two is a different story. The Office (No. 66 to No. 56) gets no guess from us: 201 episodes of Dunder Mifflin climb when they feel like it. South Park (No. 90 to No. 80) has the one dated event we found inside our window: it won outstanding animated program at the Creative Arts Emmys on September 5 and 6. Whether that moved it, the chart cannot say.
Film. Blade Runner 2049, No. 88 to No. 77, the biggest climb on the movies chart. Denis Villeneuve's sequel, with Harrison Ford, casts Ryan Gosling as K, a replicant blade runner who finds remains suggesting replicants can do something everyone believed impossible. It won Oscars for cinematography and visual effects, and it runs 163 minutes: one full night, the biggest screen you own. One returner: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which spent most of the summer in our low 30s, dropped off the chart for nine days and came back at No. 37. HBO's Harry Potter series, adapting the same book, is due on December 25, too far off to pin the move on.
Games. The games chart barely moved. Four titles tied for its biggest climb, three places each: Hades (No. 52 to No. 49), Dark Souls III (No. 53 to No. 50), Bloodborne (No. 38 to No. 35) and Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (No. 66 to No. 63). Our pick is Hades. You are Zagreus, fighting out of the underworld to escape your father and reach your mother, Persephone, and every death sends you back to the House of Hades with the permanent upgrades you have bought. HowLongToBeat players log a little under 24 hours for the main story, and its full release turns six this Thursday, September 17.
Books. The Summoning, No. 50 to No. 44. Kelley Armstrong's 2008 novel follows Chloe Saunders, fifteen, who turns out to be a necromancer, able to see ghosts and raise the dead, and who is sent to Lyle House, a group home where the other residents have powers too. It runs 390 pages, opens the Darkest Powers series and is rated 9.4 in our catalog. We found no peg. A weekend.
Albums. Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, No. 62 to No. 57, the biggest climb on the albums chart. Coldplay's 2008 record, produced partly by Brian Eno, won the Grammy for best rock album and wears Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People on its cover. Ten tracks, 45 minutes and 51 seconds. One sitting.
Who gets the week
MobLand, and not because it climbed furthest.
The case against it is the consensus above, and Blade Runner 2049 is the more ambitious work by a distance. If you want the best thing on this page, that is the film.
But this is a plan for one week, and MobLand is the only pick with a deadline. Ten episodes fit five weeknights with nothing left over, and on Friday you meet season two already knowing who Harry works for and why the Harrigans need him. Everything else keeps. Blade Runner on Saturday. The Summoning on Sunday. The Coldplay record on the commute. Hades for the night a plan falls through, because a failed run costs you some pride and little else.
And if you finish season one by Friday, tell us which Harrigan you trust least. The chart cannot answer that one either.
