5 TV Shows To Watch If You Like The Gentlemen

Ever since 2024, "The Gentlemen" has been keeping fans entertained on Netflix thanks to its absolutely wild premise, excellent cast, and action-packed episodes that make you want to press play on the next installment before the credits even properly roll. Adapted from Guy Ritchie's 2019 film of the same name and with Ritchie as the show's creator to boot, "The Gentlemen" uses the same universe as the movie — in which an American drug lord hopes to peddle his wares across the pond — but tackles a different standalone story, focusing on Edward "Eddie" Horniman (Theo James), the British Duke of Halstead and Army veteran who's working as a peacekeeper on the border of Syria and Turkey when he suddenly inherits his dying father's title. (This inheritance is actively despite the presence of Eddie's troublesome older brother Freddy, played by "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" standout Daniel Ings.) As Eddie tries to solve his brother's financial woes, Eddie decides to sell the estate ... only for Susie Glass (Kaya Scoledario), who manages her father's criminal empire, to reveal that there's a massive cannabis farm hidden within it. From there, Eddie ... keeps the family business afloat, so to speak.

So what should you watch next if you're a huge fan of "The Gentlemen," which aired its second season in the back half of 2026 and has already been renewed for a third outing thanks to its flashy style and irresistable drama? We've got some ideas. From other shows about accidental drug lords to family dramas that involve quite a bit of illegal activity, here are five shows that'll satisfy your craving once you binge-watch all of "The Gentlemen."

You simply cannot talk about fun, flashy crime dramas packed with intrigue and interpersonal politics without bringing up the massively popular series "Peaky Blinders." Created by Steven Knight, this BBC production which ultimately made its way over to Netflix stars Cillian Murphy — yes, the same Cillian Murphy who went on to win an Academy Award for playing the title role in Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" in 2024 — as Thomas "Tommy" Shelby, a British crime boss who leads the titular street gang the Peaky Blinders as they wreak havoc in the city of Birmingham. As the group's leader, Tommy often finds himself facing off against Chester Campbell (the late, great Sam Neill), a chief inspector with the Royal Irish Constabulary who's sent from Belfast by Winston Churchill himself (Andy Nyman, Richard McCabe, and Neil Maskell across the show's six seasons) to get Birmingham in order. 

Throughout those six seasons and 36 episodes that ran from 2013 to 2022, we watch as Tommy and the Peaky Blinders manage to evade authorities for decade, with each season focusing on a different historical period in England (the story begins in 1919, with Season 6 kicking off in 1933). With a supporting cast that includes luminaries like Paddy Considine, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, the late Helen McCrory, Ned Dennehy, Aidan Gillen, Anya Taylor-Joy, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Brian Gleeson, Stephen Graham, and even two-time Oscar winner Adrien Brody as the leader of a New York crime gang, "Peaky Blinders" is just sublime television ... and it pairs perfectly with "The Gentlemen." Plus, if you watch all six seasons and you're not ready for the story to be over, good news: the feature-length film "Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man" hit Netflix in March 2026.

If you loved the fact that, on "The Gentlemen," Theo James' Eddie is thrust into life as a drug kingpin under completely bizarre circumstances, you'll definitely love that about "Weeds," the comedy-drama created by Jenji Kohan that centers around Mary-Louise Parker's Nancy Botwin and ran for eight seasons and 102 episodes from 2005 to 2012. When we first meet Nancy, she's a suburban mom in the fictional California suburb of Agrestic dealing with the loss of her husband Judah (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), who died of a heart attack on a jog, as she tries to keep her life together and raise her sons Silas and Shane (Hunter Parrish and Alexander Gould). After money starts to run low, Nancy gets desperate; not only does she have to provide for her boys, but she grew accustomed to a relatively cushy lifestyle while Judah was alive. So what does Nancy do? She quietly starts selling cannabis to stressed-out suburban moms who all live the elite, wealthy, and comfortable lives that Nancy wants to maintain.

Unsurprisingly, things escalate fast, and Nancy becomes a drug kingpin of sorts and is fully drawn into the criminal underbelly of Los Angeles. The whole cast of "Weeds" is fantastic, but the supporting cast is genuinely wild and includes everyone from Justin Kirk (as Nancy's hilarious brother-in-law Andy), Romany Malco (a wholesaler who supplies Nancy with wares to sell), Elizabeth Perkins (who plays Nancy's suburban nemesis Celia), Kevin Nealon (Nancy's wayward friend Doug), and guest appearances from Carrie Fisher, Albert Brooks, Zooey Deschanel, Alanis Morissette, and Martin Short, just to name a few. "Weeds" goes pretty firmly off the rails in later seasons, but it's still fun, and it's a great follow-up to "The Gentlemen."

Years before Wagner Moura earned his first Oscar nomination for starring in the incredible 2025 film "The Secret Agent," this talented performer was quietly making waves on "Narcos," one of the most underrated shows to ever air on Netflix. Created by by Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, and Doug Miro and filmed in Colombia (which is also where it's set), "Narcos" ran for three seasons and 30 episodes from 2015 to 2017 and tells a fictionalized version of the story of real-life drug lord Pablo Escobar (Moura), who first began manufacturing and selling cocaine in the 1970s (when the show's first season begins). We see a lot of Escobar's story through the perspective of an American DEA agent named Steve Murphy (Boyd Holbrook) who's supposed to bring the kingpin down, but we also spend plenty of time with Moura's take on Escobar himself and meet several of his closest lieutenants, including Jorge Ochoa and Fabio Ochoa (André Mattos and Roberto Urbina), rival drug lords like Cali leader Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela (Damián Alcázar), Escobar's wife Maria Victoria "Tata" Henao (Paulina Gaitán). There's also a DEA agent named Javier Peña, played by then up-and-coming star Pedro Pascal, who's also trying to kneecap Escobar as well as the Cali cartel.

Pascal left "Narcos" before the "fourth" season of "Narcos" — the reset "Narcos: Mexico" — but the show stayed as strong as ever, and Moura is absolutely magnetic as one of the most infamous criminals in the history of the Americas and, probably, the world at large. If you like "The Gentlemen" but want something darker and hope to learn some history along the way, try "Narcos."

Great comedic actors sometimes transition into dramatic roles, and when they do, they tend to do so with ease ... which is certainly true of Jason Bateman's magnetic turn on the Netflix original series "Ozark." From 2017 to 2022, "Ozark," which was created by Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams and spans 44 episodes over four seasons, introduces audiences to Marty and Wendy Byrde (Bateman and Laura Linney), a couple who hastily move their kids Charlotte and Jonah (Sofia Hublitz and Skylar Gaertner) from the wealthy Chicago suburbs to the titular Ozarks in Missouri after Marty tries to launder money for a Mexican cartel and makes a total mess of the situation.

After the move, Marty and Wendy get involved with local criminals in their new home of Osage Beach, like Ruth Langmore (standout performer Julia Garner), bar owner and reluctant ally to the Byrdes Rachel Garrison (Rachel Garrison), and longtime crime boss Jacob Snell (Peter Mullan) and his wife Darlene (Lisa Emery), the last of whom traffic in heroin. Then there's the Navarro cartel, who essentially hold the Byrdes hostage after the money-laundering incident and are led by the formidable Omar Navarro (Felix Solis) and protected by Chicago lawyer Helen Pierce (Janet McTeer).

Garner won a whopping three Emmy Awards for her work as Ruth, and throughout the run of "Ozark," the show was overwhelmingly popular ... so it's possible that, if you like "The Gentlemen," you've already watched "Ozark." If you haven't, though? You're in for a real treat.

If you love how irreverent "The Gentlemen" is — even though it's a show that's about the drug trade and its dangers — you'll love watching the Amazon Prime Video series "Sneaky Pete" manage that same balance beautifully. Created by David Shore and Bryan Cranston (yes, that Bryan Cranston), "Sneaky Pete," which only made it for three seasons on Amazon Prime Video before getting canceled in 2019, centers around Giovanni Ribisi's petty con man Marius Josipović, who gets out of prison only to find himself in grave danger as crime boss Vince Lonigan (Cranston) seeks revenge. To avoid Vince's wrath, Marius adopts the identity of his cellmate in prison, Pete Murphy (Ethan Embry), and then makes nice with Pete's family, from whom the real Pete has been estranged for decades; as a result, the Murphys have no idea that the guy claiming to be Pete is a total fraud. So how does Marius pretend to be Pete? Luckily for him, the real Pete talked about his family so much in prison that Marius knows basically everything about them, and he uses that information to his advantage.

"Sneaky Pete" is so much fun thanks to its clever premise and the central performance from Ribisi, as well as supporting turns from Marin Ireland, Margo Martindale, Jane Adams, future "Pluribus" star Karolina Wydra, Victor Williams, Debra Monk, and Desmond Harrington, just to name a few. Even though this show got canceled far too early, "Sneaky Pete" is definitely worth checking out, especially if you like "The Gentlemen" — and you can stream that show on Netflix.