Top Boy: What the Must Watch Reviewers think
Must Watch reviewers Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell share their thoughts on Top Boy.
The new series streams on Netflix from Friday 13 September.
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Scott says: "The attention to detail makes this show so mesmerising"
"It is a show that has slipped through the cracks. Drake went and found the creators of the show and asked what he could do to bring it back.
"The second series was left on a cliffhanger. After the first episode, the show feels like it is setting out in a direction as to where the third series is heading, it’s trying to tie up a lot of loose ends.
"There are a whole lot of new characters. The second episode starts to look at immigration - one character is told her papers are not in order and she has to leave the UK despite living here for 30 years.
"There is also a parent who has to go to a parent's evening to hear about the stigma their child is dealing with.
"It’s the attention to detail that makes this show so mesmerising, the look and the feel of it is so authentic, It’s really well written and really well acted."
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Hayley says: "It seems to be going somewhere... so I am in"
"Apparently Drake found it while watching YouTube one day and discovered there wasn't more - so he bought it to pay for more episodes.
"It started out following the lives of a group of people in a Hackney housing estate.
"The first episode is partly set in Jamaica - it is gritty and violent. There's a lot of shaky camera, and guns and murder but it takes it back to Dalston, to Ridley Road Market and it feels real. Some of the scenes feel like documentaries.
"I wasn’t a fan of this when it first came out in 2011 but now it seems to be going somewhere in this season so I am in."
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Top Boy is streaming on Netflix from Friday 13th September.
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