Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen on Netflix: 2 key money lessons to learn from the series

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What if you inherited a home, a title and all the underhanded business that has been going on for years? You’ll do everything to get out of the shady business innit?

So a British peacekeeping soldier Edward Horniman (played by the handsome Theo James, whom you last saw in The White Lotus) loses his father and earns a Dukedom which his father has willed to him and not his older brother Freddy. He realises that Freddy is in debt and his father has been leasing out their ancestral lands to Susie Glass and her father who run a business of growing weed. 

The family groundskeeper and the Duke’s mother know the goings on but have done nothing because upkeep of the estate needs the money. The upright, freshly minted Duke needs to get out of the weed business, but he also needs to pay off his brother’s debts. Will he get out of the family business?

Family businesses are hard to deal with, especially if you, dear investor, are not interested in it. Here are the two really important money lessons you need to learn from this awesome, fun, bloody (it is a Guy Ritchie series, after all!) show on Netflix.

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The new Duke is a calm, unruffled man. He knows that allowing marijuana cultivation in his lands is not right, and he tells Susie Glass (played by the saucer-eyed Kaya Scodelario) that he wants out. But Susie can help with money and connections to that bad men who will kill Freddy if his loans aren’t paid, so the Duke gets embroiled in the business. 

One thing leads to another and you end up sympathising with his situation, once you begin to deal with the illegal business, it is impossible to get out. His drunk, drugged out brother — of all people