A Thousand Blows
2025
📺 2 Seasons
🎬 12 Episodes
📅 Returning Series
🌐 EN
Drama
Hezekiah and Alec, two friends from Jamaica, finds themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London's East End. Here they meet Mary Carr, Queen of an all-female criminal gang known as the Forty Elephants, and run afoul of Sugar Goodson, criminal kingpin and notorious boxer.
Where to Watch (US)
Stream
Disney Plus
Hulu
Seasons
Season 1
In season 1, as Hezekiah finds fortune and fame through the art of pugilism, he attracts the attention of the infamous Queen of the Forty Elephants, Mary Carr, who sets about exploiting his talents to further her criminal enterprise. Meanwhile the menacing and self-declared emperor of the East End boxing world, Sugar Goodson, determines to destroy Hezekiah whose ambitions to fight in the West End threatens everything he has built. What ensues is a battle of the old world against the new.
Cast
Crew
Producer
Stephen Haren, Steven Knight, Hannah Walters
Network
Disney+
Production
The Story Collective, Matriarch Productions, Water & Power Productions, The Walt Disney Company EMEA, Nebulastar
Keywords
london, englandvictorian englandeast end of london1880s