Everything to Know About The Gentlemen Season 2 on Netflix
Director Guy Ritchie is coming back for more cannabis-fueled criminal mayhem
Daniel Ings, The Gentlemen
Even though Season 2 of The Gentlemen is arriving on Netflix imminently, most of the conversation around Guy Ritchie's series lately has been about Season 3. Specifically: whether or not Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, will have a role on the series. As you might imagine, that whole discussion has been a touchy one in the U.K. We'll go deeper into all that further down in this article, but first let's re-focus on Season 2 for a minute.
The Gentlemen, which is a TV adaptation of Guy Ritchie's film of the same name, focuses on Theo James as Eddie Horniman, the younger son of the Duke of Halstead who unexpectedly inherits the estate when his father dies, passing over his older brother Freddy (Daniel Ings), who is just too much of a clown to be the Duke. Freddy also, unfortunately, has some big debts to some very bad people. Eddie plans to sell the estate to pay those debts, but changes his mind when he learns his new estate houses a secret weed farm run by a nice young lady named Susie Glass (Kaya Scodelario). And from there, things get really weird.
We've had a frustratingly-long hiatus for The Gentlemen, which dropped its first season on Netflix all the way back in March of 2024 — so it'll be two-and-a-half years between the first two seasons. Fortunately, Season 2 is coming up really quickly now. Scroll on to see what we know about Season 2 so far.
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The Gentlemen Season 2 release date
The second season of The Gentlemen is slated to release in full on Netflix on Sept. 3, 2026.
Will there be a Season 3?
Yeppers! The Gentlemen was renewed for a third season on Aug. 24, just days before Season 2 premieres on Netflix. According to Variety, the renewal was expected, and crew on the series was already close to starting production on Season 3 before the renewal was actually announced — this was likely one reason those Meghan Markle rumors started circulating when they did. But we've got much more on that topic further down.
Teaser trailers for the new season of The Gentlemen
We've got a pair of trailers that give us glimpses at the dangerous new folks that Eddie and Susie will contend with in Season 2, as well as some of the action they'll get involved with — it's looking like quite a rabbit hole we'll be diving into. First is the 75-second teaser released in July, and below is a the full, two-minute trailer that Netflix dropped on Aug. 24.
Pics from The Gentlemen Season 2
In addition to that trailers, we've also got an array of new pictures from the new season, courtesy of Netflix. A dozen still images aren't going to be as illuminating as that trailer was, but there are certainly some details to glean from these new shots.
The Gentlemen Season 2 cast and crew
Guy Ritchie co-wrote and directed The Gentlemen Season 2, just as he did Season 1, with co-writer Matthew Read also returning to help craft the new season. Eran Creevy, who directed two episodes in Season 1, also returned to do the same in Season 2.
On the cast side, the three main folks — James, Scodelario, and Ings — are also back, which is not very surprising since the story is about them. Now that Season 2 has completed production, we've learned that basically everybody else is coming back too, and they're bringing with them a very interesting slate of new folks, which include Hugh Bonneville and Michele Morrone. Boxer Chris Eubank Jr. will apparently have a role to play as well.
- Theo James as Eddie Horniman
- Kaya Scodelario as Susie Glass
- Daniel Ings as Freddy Horniman
- Ray Winstone as Bobby Glass
- Giancarlo Esposito as Stanley Johnson
- Joely Richardson as Lady Sabrina
- Vinnie Jones as Geoff Seacombe
- Michael Vu as Jimmy
- Hugh Bonneville
- Michele Morrone
- Benedetta Porcaroli
Where Season 1 of The Gentlemen left off
After a lot of back and forth, it appeared as though Stanley Johnston was poised to take control of the Horniman's estate, but a number of Eddie's behind-the-scenes machinations came to fruition at just the right moment, and Johnston was arrested for a whole pile of crimes, including murder, before he was able to complete the deal. With Johnstone out of the way, and despite the fact that he spent half the season trying to escape from his family's arrangement with Susie and her father, Eddie decides to go all in on the drug business.
The Gentlemen Season 2 storyline
We don't know a ton of details about where the story will go in Season 2, but there will be a one-year time jump between seasons. Here's what we've got from Netflix so far:
"It's been one year since Eddie and Susie joined forces to work together in Bobby's criminal empire overseas. As they drive to expand their enterprise, the decisions Bobby is making seem to be increasingly unsound. Now Eddie and Susie must decide whether to take action or risk losing it all, but unfettered ambition never ends well..."
That's pretty vague, but it looks like Season 2 may pit the youngins against the old man. But this is still a Guy Ritchie story, so you can bet it'll be a lot more complicated than just that, especially with an ensemble this massive.
OK, so what's going on with Meghan Markle and The Gentlemen?
On Aug. 19, 2026, Markle and her husband, Prince Harry, announced that they would be moving back to the U.K. after living in California for most of the past decade. Two days later, a new report popped up out of Australia, which claimed that Markle had been offered a role in some U.K.-based production, and that this offer was partially the reason they were moving back. Later that same day, it was reported widely that the role in question would be something in The Gentlemen Season 3.
There's been no further news on the subject, so we don't know if Markle accepted the role or turned it down. But there's been a lot of back and forth about the situation in the press. Insider Tina Brown claimed on Aug. 22 that Netflix had already rescinded Markle's offer in response to backlash in the U.K. to the idea of a member of the royal family working as an actor, but that report hasn't been confirmed by other outlets.
Then, Variety published a new report on Aug. 25 which claimed that Markle was never actually offered any sort of role, but that Ritchie had simply floated the idea of casting her during a meeting well before Markle and Prince Harry announced their plans to return to the U.K., and that this entire story may have been planted by Markle's people in order to get regular folks used to the idea that she might start acting again regularly, perhaps to gauge everyone's response or even signal publicly that she's available for work.
When you take all of this into consideration, it becomes clear very quickly that very few people actually know what's going on here, and we've all been sucked into a classic game of tabloid telephone.
Where to watch The Gentleman Season 1, and the film it's based on
Check below to see where to watch both the TV series and the film.
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