Storyline for The Gentlemen on Netflix

Created by Ritchie, inspired by his film, and co-written by Ritchie, who also handles some of the directing, this Gentlemen stars Theo James as the reluctant inheritor of his dead aristocratic father’s title and country estate. Becoming a Duke is one thing.

But learning about the major cannabis grow op concealed on his estate’s grounds is quite another, and the bickering and scheming between family members and criminal factions pops off from there.

James is joined in The Gentlemen by Kaya Scodelario, Giancarlo Esposito, Daniel Ings, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Ray Winstone, and Dar Salim.

Episodes of The Gentlemen on Netflix

Eddie is soon visited by a lawyer, who tells him his father is on his deathbed, and he returns to the sprawling family estate to join his older brother Freddy (Ings), his younger sister Charlotte (Jasmine Blackborow), his mother Sabrina (Richardson), and longtime groundskeeper Geoffrey Seacombe (Jones).

As “the spare, not the heir,” middle child Eddie has made a life for himself outside the peerage.

Hence the army posting. But his father’s dying words declare him to be the family’s only chance at keeping their property and standing, and his will rejects sputtering cocaine enthusiast Freddy in favor of Eddie, who becomes the next Duke of Halstead.

And as it turns out, that also makes him the landlord of the massive weed farm operating underneath the estate’s legitimate yogurt and livestock farm.