{"id":517,"date":"2026-05-23T14:35:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=517"},"modified":"2026-05-23T14:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:35:34","slug":"kill-him-recast-him-or-send-him-upstairs-what-mobland-should-do-with-tom-hardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"Kill Him, Recast Him, or Send Him Upstairs? What \u2018MobLand\u2019 Should Do With Tom Hardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<svg><\/svg> <span>Logo text<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tWhen last we left Tom Hardy in the season one finale of <em>MobLand<\/em>, he was slumped in a chair with a butcher knife sticking out of his chest.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=515\">Mubi Takes Lukas Dhont\u2019s \u2018Coward\u2019 for North America<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tTurns out, more than a few people on that show may have had reason to leave it there.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHardy, of course, plays Harry Da Souza, the reluctant fixer for mob boss couple Conrad and Maeve Harrigan \u2014 Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren \u2014 in Paramount+\u2019s gritty London underworld drama. Or at least he did. Reportedly, Hardy exited the series shortly after it wrapped its upcoming second season, following long-simmering friction with the showrunners over lateness, script disputes and clashes over the series\u2019 shift toward a more ensemble approach. He will not be appearing in a third season, assuming there is one.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThat leaves <em>MobLand\u2019<\/em>s makers with a problem \u2014 what to do with the body.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIt\u2019s an awkward spot, but television has been here before, plenty of times. Usually when an actor in a major role skedaddles a series in mid-stream \u2014 because of firings, feuds, contract fights, health crises or creative flameouts \u2014 the show finds a way to go on. Sometimes they simply kill off the character by pushing him in front of a train (take a bow, Charlie Sheen), sometimes they pull a Darrin (looking at you, Dick Sargent), sometimes they just send them upstairs never to be heard from again (remember Gavan O\u2019Herlihy?).<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBelow, a brief history of emergency exits.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>KILL \u2018EM AND CARRY ON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhen a star becomes too much trouble, television\u2019s most time-honored solution is also its most satisfying: kill them. On\u00a0<em>Two and a Half Men<\/em>, Charlie Sheen\u2019s Charlie Harper got pushed in front of a Paris train by his stalker girlfriend. On\u00a0<em>Valerie<\/em>, Valerie Harper\u2019s character was killed in a car crash \u2014 and then, just to rub it in, the show was renamed\u00a0<em>The Hogan Family<\/em>\u00a0and Sandy Duncan moved into her house. On\u00a0<em>The Conners<\/em>, Roseanne Barr\u2019s Roseanne Conner died of an opioid overdose \u2014 about five minutes after Barr fired off a racist tweet. And when McLean Stevenson decided he was too big for\u00a0<em>M*A*S*H<\/em>\u00a0after season three, Colonel Henry Blake\u2019s helicopter was shot down over the Sea of Japan on the way home from the war. Stevenson went on to star in a string of failed sitcoms. The show ran eight more seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=513\">\u2018The Dreamed Adventure\u2019 Review: A Slow-Burn Border Town Thriller That Manages to Fascinate and Frustrate at the Same Time<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>MEET THE NEW DARRIN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThen again, murder isn\u2019t for everyone. The gentler option: keep the character, swap out the actor, and trust that the audience won\u2019t notice \u2014 or won\u2019t care. Dick York spent five seasons as Darrin Stephens on\u00a0<em>Bewitched<\/em>\u00a0before a spinal injury and a painkiller dependency took him off the set; Dick Sargent stepped in without a word of explanation, a move so brazenly unacknowledged it coined its own TV phrase \u2014 \u201cpulling a Darrin.\u201d\u00a0<em>The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air<\/em>\u00a0tried the same thing when Aunt Viv went from Janet Hubert to Daphne Maxwell Reid mid-run.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>THEY WENT UPSTAIRS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRemember Chuck Cunningham? Nobody else does either. That\u2019s because during a season two episode of\u00a0<em>Happy Days<\/em>, Richie\u2019s older brother \u2014 played by Gavan O\u2019Herlihy \u2014 walked upstairs and was never heard from again. No explanation, no farewell episode, no acknowledgment that a human being had just evaporated from the cast. Even Henry Winkler, asked about it fifty years later, could only shrug: \u201cHe went upstairs and never came down\u2026a mystery.\u201d\u00a0<em>Family Matters<\/em> did the same to Judy Winslow, who disappeared after season three. And on\u00a0<em>The West Wing<\/em>, Moira Kelly\u2019s Mandy Hampton was a full series regular in season one and simply ceased to exist in season two.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>WHO NEEDS A STAR?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tDavid Caruso was so sure he was too big for television that he quit\u00a0<em>NYPD Blue<\/em>\u00a0after season one to become a movie star. His subsequent film career lasted two movies. Jimmy Smits stepped into the precinct and many viewers decided they preferred the new arrangement. The show ran eleven more seasons.\u00a0<em>The Office<\/em>\u00a0lost Steve Carell after season seven and kept going for two more, sustained by an ensemble that had been steadily doing the heavy lifting all along. And\u00a0<em>Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/em>\u00a0has now outlasted so many of its leads \u2014 Patrick Dempsey was killed off in season 11, Sandra Oh gone a season earlier \u2014 that it has essentially become a different show that happens to share a name with the original. It is still on the air.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=511\">Surprise: Stephen Colbert Hosted a Public Access TV Show in Michigan After Signing Off CBS<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How will MobLand handled Tom Hardy&#8217;s exit? 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