There is a specific kind of low-stakes joy in picking up a physical media release, putting the disc in, and getting straight down to business. Paramount put out the first season of Mobland on DVD recently, and while it does not contain a single special feature, the show itself delivers a noisy, bloody, stubborn piece of crime television that knows exactly what it wants to be and doesn't waste a single frame trying to apologize for it. The overall narrative setup is about as old as the crime genre itself, but it works because the show understands the fundamental engine of mafia storytelling: power creates paranoia, and paranoia makes people stupid. You have two rival crime syndicates operating across London: the Harrigan family, who are established, wealthy, and decaying from the inside, and the Stevenson gang, who are reckless, violent, and desperate to carve out a bigger piece of the city for themselves. Sitting right in the middle of this escalating disaster is Harry Da Souza, p...