Published Jun 13, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT
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2026 has already been an up and down year for Guy Ritchie, who returned to the crime thriller genre for one of his best projects in years, Young Sherlock. Prime Video dropped all episodes of Young Sherlock as a binge a few months ago, and the show did more than overstay its welcome at the top of streaming charts on its way to earning a Season 2 renewal — Ritchie is expected to return for the follow-up. Ritchie has since faced a setback with the premiere of his long-gestating action movie with Henry Cavill, In the Grey, which bombed hard at the box office. The film, which also stars Jake Gyllenhaal, has since scurried to VOD platforms like Prime Video and Apple TV, where it’s seeking redemption for its box office misfire as one of the most-watched titles of the week.
Young Sherlock is far from Guy Ritchie’s only popular show to emerge from the shadows in the last few years, though. Back in 2024, Ritchie turned to Netflix for The Gentlemen, the hit crime series set in the same universe as his 2019 film of the same name starring Matthew McConaughey and Charlie Hunnam. The Gentlemen was, to no surprise, a high-level performer for Netflix in 2024, and the show was picked up for Season 2, which wrapped filming last year. The streamer has yet to set a release date for Season 2 of the Theo James-led crime saga, but it has been confirmed that it will premiere before the end of this year. Before its return, The Gentlemen has surged back into the global top 10 on Netflix in a handful of countries.
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
The official synopsis for The Gentlemen, which also stars Giancarlo Esposito, reads as follows:
“When Eddie Horniman inherits his father’s sprawling English country estate, he expects land and legacy — not a thriving underground cannabis empire. With Britain’s most dangerous criminals refusing to walk away, Eddie must learn to play the game by their rules. From Guy Ritchie: sharp suits, sharper instincts, lethal consequences.”
Not only did Guy Ritchie direct five episodes of The Gentlemen on Netflix, he is also the primary writer and creator of the show. Daniel Ings, who recently starred as Lyonel Baratheon in the Games of Thrones spin-off, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, also has a key role in The Gentlemen TV show on Netflix.
Check out the entire first season of The Gentlemen on Netflix and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Season 2.
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David Caffrey, Guy Ritchie, Eran Creevy