Ganglands

Ganglands is a French action crime drama streaming television series created by Hamid Hlioua and Julien Leclercq. The first season of the series premiered on Netflix on 24 September 2021 with six episodes. The second season premiered on 17 February 2023, also with six episodes. The series shares the title of Leclercq's 2015 film Braqueurs, but while both feature Sami Bouajila as the lead robber, they share no characters or storylines. Premise A crew of armed robbers led by Mehdi, an experienced professional, is drawn into a turf war between drug lords in Belgium after Mehdi’s teenage niece, Shaïnez, and her girlfriend, Liana, accidentally steal eight kilograms of cocaine while robbing a top dealer’s courier. Mehdi and Liana form an unlikely working partnership and a strong emotional bond while they fight for their lives and to protect their families and friends from spiraling troubles in Brussels and Antwerp. Episodes Episode I An experienced heist leader robs a gold refinery with his heavily armed crew. In an unrelated situation across the city, and unbeknownst to the heist leader, his teenage niece is making money posing as a prostitute to lure men to encounters and rob them. She and a female accomplice steal a man's personal effects, but they are unaware he is a drug courier. They are dismayed to find eight kilos of cocaine in his bag. His boss, a drug baron, kidnaps the niece and demands the return of his drugs. The heist leader negotiates with the drug lord, who gives him one day to recover the cocaine.