Darren Edwards, the son of a crime boss hailing from an itinerant community named the Welsh Travellers, unwittingly killed Finn Wallace, the underworld kingpin who united London’s criminal organizations into a steady truce. Now the truce is in shambles, and Darren is the most wanted man in London. That’s all you need to know to enjoy the sixth episode of AMC’s crime drama
Gangs of London, a distressingly good hour of action TV that unfolds as a heavily armed kill-squad lays siege to Darren’s country home.
The episode’s 24-minute shootout immediately earns a spot in the action canon for its shocking, audaciously staged violence. The sequence is also difficult to recommend: It’s nearly half an hour of unabated gun violence in a year where American gun violence has returned to the forefront of many people’s minds. In the first four months of 2021, there have been over 147 mass shootings in the United States, a numbing cadence of suffering that’s difficult to comprehend.