This City Is Ours season 2 review: Liverpudlian gang drama returns with terrific acting

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Writing in the Guardian on October 25, 2026, Sarah Dempster reviews the second series of the BBC Liverpudlian gang drama This City Is Ours. Seventeen months after the first season, the high-stakes crime saga returns as troubled mobster Michael (James Nelson-Joyce) attempts to go straight in Marbella alongside Cheryl (Saoirse-Monica Jackson) and Diana (Hannah Onslow). However, they are soon taken hostage at gunpoint by Felipe (Álvaro Morte), the brother of slain cartel boss Ricardo, who demands to know who killed his sibling. Dempster praises the terrific acting—highlighting newcomer Shaun Evans as Ozzie Thompson alongside established cast members—the exquisite tension of the scenes, and the show's unique grounding in mundane, domestic details, concluding that the ambitious crime drama is as lovable as it is bloody.