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Guy Ritchie’s “Pure Magic” 2-Part Mystery Series Remains a Global Streaming Smash

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Guy Ritchie has had some smash hits and some massive misfires so far in 2026, but one of his most successful projects of the year has found unprecedented longevity on streaming. Ritchie returned to movie theaters for the first time in two years with In The Grey, which stars Henry Cavill and Jake Gyllenhaal. Despite their combined star power, In The Grey struggled to get off the ground at the box office, but the film has found redemption on Starz as one of the most-watched movies in the world right now. Ritchie is also back to dominating Paramount Plus thanks to the return of his crime thriller show, MobLand, which stars Tom Hardy. The show is already confirmed to return for Season 3 as well — a nice gift to fans and further reason to invest in Season 2.

While In The Grey may not have been as successful as Ritchie was hoping, he did find success with his first project of the year, Young Sherlock. Ritchie wrote and produced all eight episodes in the first season of the Prime Video original series, and despite all episodes being dropped as a binge back in March, the show spent weeks at the top of streaming charts. This prompted Amazon to announce that Young Sherlock had been renewed for Season 2, and with production on the second season kicking off earlier in the year, it’s all but assured that the show will return to streaming sometime in 2027. Before its return, Young Sherlock is once again gaining steam on Prime Video streaming charts, where it’s back in the top 10 in a handful of countries around the world.

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Collider Exclusive · Action Franchise Quiz
What Action Series Would You Thrive In?
Wick · Fast · Mission · Die Hard

Four franchises. Four completely different ideas of what a hero is: the assassin with a code, the family that never leaves anyone behind, the man who does his own stunts, and the guy who simply refuses to die. Only one of them runs on your particular brand of trouble. Eight questions will tell you which one you would survive.

🐕Wick

🏁Fast

🧨Mission

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🎄Die Hard

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How does a room know you’ve walked into it?
Every action hero arrives differently. Some of them arrive before they arrive.




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02

It turns physical. What does your fighting actually look like?
Choreography is character. Yours says something about you.




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03

Who is standing beside you when it starts?
Some franchises are built on a team. Others are built on one person walking in alone.




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It has gone badly wrong. What keeps you upright?
Act two exists to find out what you’re actually made of.




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There’s a vehicle. What are you driving, and how?
No action franchise has ever survived without a car chase. This one is yours.




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06

How do you feel about the people giving the orders?
There is always an institution. There is rarely a good one.




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Underneath all of it, what are you actually doing this for?
The stunts are the reason people come. This is the reason they stay.




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When the credits roll, what do people say about you?
Every franchise is really an argument about what makes someone worth watching.




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Casting Has Been Completed
Your Franchise Is…

Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you
handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive
the trilogy, and probably headline it.

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John Wick · Chapters 1–4 · 2014–2023

John Wick

You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t
escalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are
so careful never to be the reason you start.

  • The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who
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    against him.
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The Fast and the Furious · Fast X · 2001–2023

Fast & Furious

You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about:
the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and
you’d drive through a building for any one of them.

  • This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its actual subject,
    because loyalty scales and plot doesn’t have to.
  • You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you
    defend it past the point of reason.
  • You’d thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve,
    an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics.
  • The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.

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Mission: Impossible · The Final Reckoning · 1996–2025

Mission: Impossible

You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself
anyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how
to ask somebody else to carry the risk.

  • This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the
    rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that’s left.
  • You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an
    administrative error.
  • You’d thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure.
    The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door.
  • Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.

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Die Hard · A Good Day to Die Hard · 1988–2013

Die Hard

You are not the most trained person in the building, the best
equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the
end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.

  • Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outgunned, out-planned,
    bleeding, and extremely funny about it.
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  • You’d thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation,
    and you’ve never had the luxury of preparing anyway.
  • You didn’t want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.
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What Is ‘Young Sherlock’ About?

Prime Video’s official synopsis for Young Sherlock, which holds marks of 84% from critics and 83% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows: “As a 19-year-old at Oxford University, Sherlock Holmes is not yet the master detective he grows up to be. He is raw and unfiltered, and he lacks discipline. A murder at Oxford puts Holmes’s freedom at risk, and he sets out to solve his first murder mystery that leads him to a global-level conspiracy.” Young Sherlock stars Hero Fiennes Tiffin as Sherlock Holmes, Donál Finn as James Moriarty, Natascha McElhone as Cordelian Holmes, and Max Irons as Mycroft Holmes.

Check out the first season of Young Sherlock on Prime Video and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Season 2.

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Release Date

March 4, 2026

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Prime Video

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Matthew Parkhill

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