Exclusive | Did MobLand just kill off that major character? Boss explains

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.Season 1 of the Paramount+ drama “MobLand” ended on Sunday, June 1, wrapping up the hit series starring Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, and Helen Mirren. When it premiered on March 30, the crime drama broke records as the streamer’s biggest global series launch ever, drawing 2.2 million viewers on premiere day.Spoilers below for the “MobLand” Season 1 finale. At the end of the Season 1 finale, mob fixer Harry Da Souza’s (Hardy) wife, Jan (Joanne Froggatt), accidentally stabs him in the chest with a knife during an argument.

The burning question: is that fatal? “I mean, if you think about it, ‘is Harry dead?’” writer and executive producer Jez Butterworth exclusively told The Post.“No.

We’re not gonna – We love Harry.We love Tom.”Butterworth, who also co-wrote the 2014 Tom Cruise movie “Edge of Tomorrow,” added, “I felt strongly that throughout the whole tale, the ball that he kept dropping was his home life,” referring how Harry and his wife were having friction, due to her unhappiness with his job.“It felt satisfyingly dramatic that having walked through fire for 10 episodes, what happens at the end is the one thing he’s not expecting.”The show follows the Harrigans, a London crime family led by patriarch Conrad (Brosnan).

His wife Mave (Mirren) frequently schemes behind his back.She hates his illegitimate daughter, Seraphina (Mandeep Dhillon), and fawns over his sociopathic grandson, Eddie (Anson Boon).

Over the course of the season, one of their sons, Brendan (Daniel Betts), got brutally killed by an enemy, while their other son, Kevin (Paddy Considine), came into his own.Harry is their fixer who cleans up their messes, at the expense of his home life. Since Harry and Jan have been married for over a decade, one might think she’d be used to his line of work. “I think in all relationships, the things that we like at first gradually drive you crazy…[Harry] is too freewhee...