In ‘Gangs of London,’ the Method Behind the Madness
Gareth Evans, a creator of the hyperviolent AMC crime series, breaks down a battle from Sunday’s episode. “Every death should be a tragedy,” he said.The kinetic crime series “Gangs of London,” currently airing on AMC, is a pulpy video game adaptation that follows a chaotic gang war that begins after the mysterious killing of the mob boss Finn Wallace (Colm Meaney). The major players include Finn’s vindictive son Sean (Joe Cole), the macho Welsh gangster Kinney Edwards (Mark Lewis Jones) and Kinney’s petulant son Darren (Aled ap Steffan). In the first episode, Darren kills Finn at the request of an unidentified rival. (Not even Darren knows who it is.) More