Chris McPherson

Published Oct 22, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT

Chris is a Senior News Writer for Collider. He can be found in an IMAX screen, with his eyes watering and his ears bleeding for his own pleasure. He joined the news team in 2022 and accidentally fell upwards into a senior position despite his best efforts.

For reasons unknown, he enjoys analyzing box office receipts, giant sharks, and has become known as the go-to man for all things Bosch, Mission: Impossible and Christopher Nolan in Collider’s news division. Recently, he found himself yeehawing along to the Dutton saga on the Yellowstone Ranch.

He is proficient in sarcasm, wit, Photoshop and working unfeasibly long hours. Amongst his passions sit the likes of the history of the Walt Disney Company, the construction of theme parks, steam trains and binge-watching Gilmore Girls with a coffee that is just hot enough to scald him.

His obsession with the Apple TV+ series Silo is the subject of mockery within the Senior News channel, where his feelings about Taylor Sheridan’s work are enough to make his fellow writers roll their eyes.

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The Harrigans have had the idea that controlling London was enough, but now, one of their own is proposing a bold plan that might see ambition stretched to the point of sanity and chances are, they’ll cut each other’s throats while doing so. Between Tom Hardy trying to keep everybody alive and Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren doing their best to make his job considerably more difficult thanks to their, shall we say, eccentricities, the show is a masterclass in hanging onto control when all odds are against you. Now, though, they want to go to a new level.

In Collider’s exclusive sneak peek at MobLand Season 2, Episode 6, Mandeep Dhillon’s Seraphina Harrigan makes a bold proposal that could change the family’s criminal empire forever. During a tense family dinner attended by her biological mother, Priyanka, Seraphina suggests that the Harrigans should expand their power and infrastructure on a global scale, moving beyond their existing operations to establish an international presence. The episode, titled “A Different Corner,” premieres Friday, October 23, exclusively on Paramount+.

It’s a tough moment because the Harrigans are still reeling from the full blown assault on their home by Frankie. The family is struggling to maintain a united front, but Seraphina has seen an opportunity to think bigger and she pitches a bold plan that could see them go bigger than ever before. Having said that,y ou know by now that the Harrigans don’t play nice with each other, while Maeve has Harry in her crosshairs yet again. At this point, you’ve got to start wondering if this is getting personal? Just kidding, everything’s personal with that psychopath.

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 series stars Hardy (Venom) as Harry da Souza, Brosnan (GoldenEye) as Conrad Harrigan and Mirren (1923) as Maeve Harrigan, alongside Paddy Considine (House of the Dragon), Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey), **Lara Pulver **(Sherlock), Anson Boon (Pistol), Dhillon (After Life), Jasmine Jobson (Top Boy), Johnny Flynn (Emma), Janet McTeer (Ozark) and Toby Jones (Captain America: The First Avenger).

Created by Ronán Bennett, MobLand is executive produced by Guy Ritchie, Jez Butterworth, Hardy and several other producers, with Paramount Television Studios and 101 Studios producing the crime drama.

MobLand** Season 2, Episode 6 premieres Friday, October 23, exclusively on Paramount+.**

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Tom Hardy

MobLand explores the intense conflict between two rival mob families whose escalating feud endangers both their criminal empires and the lives entangled in their violent world.