"The Gentlemen."

The Guy Ritchie Netflix series gets the Two Episode Test.

The easy thing to say about Guy Ritchie is that your mileage may vary, but even that doesn’t really cover it.

He seems to have fallen from New Genius to Less Genius Than We Thought to Oh, Him and then back to Solidly Talented And Mostly Reliable If That’s Your Thing.

But by then, reputations and preferences are forged and sometimes an auteur becomes more like a brand and even die hard fans of his work seem open to the idea that he might need an editor.

So, where does that leave us? Well, exactly where it leaves us with a lot of creators — knowing what they do well, wary of when it all goes sideways, perhaps open to the next thing.

For Ritchie, at least the latest thing — he’s been successful long enough to get as many chances as he wants — is the Netflix series “The Gentlemen,” based on his 2019 film of the same name (a film that never crossed my consciousness).

Knowing that Ritchie churns out material at a feverish pace, being selective or at least guarded is kind of a rule to view by. So with a revamped version of “The Gentlemen” turned into a television series, with the help of Matthew Read, the best course of action seemed to be to check out the trailer, fully expecting it to be Very Guy Ritchie (which it is) but also maybe hoping to glimpse the better parts of his talent?

All of this knowing that A) trailers lie and B) of the top 10 percent of people whose work adores the shine of a trailer more than the microscope of a review, Ritchie is well up in that group. And yet, “The Gentlemen” still had the whiff of something interesting.

So here we go.