From the trailer on channel four to the actual Top Boy series showings - Top Boy is a brilliant drama series showing the London Street life. The shows had been nominated and won many TV entertainment awards and is one of those gripping dramas that if you have it on box set you want to keep watching. I got through the two series of Top Boy in eight hours. The acting was great by both the actors and those acting who are grime artists such as scorcher, Asher d and Kano. Top Boy should have come back for another series as its story line is excellent which not only shows the perspective of adults in London's gangs but also the children's perspective in organised crime.Top Boy is a cleverly, well written drama with good soundtracks and a good London drama

Like The Wire, this shows purports to show us the real-life down and dirty live of London - again. How many depressing films must we see about the endless housing projects of London, Ireland, Scotland? Story after story on how Brits lie around on welfare while the kids run amuck; parents - any adult - is corruptible towards children too. Nary a decent role model in sight. And of course, these are predominately black people or some other "minority" who were are told (even though some obviously have decent families) that they are society's outcasts in need of a father figure which they get where - the gang!!!Spike Lee and countless others have told the story - the "new" and continuing "Boys n the Hood." It is all very sleazy. And the boys wear their trousers saggy but every effort is made to portray them as heterosexual. Even setting them up with hookers. What a laugh.The players make stupid mistake after stupid mistake in judgment. I caught this on NetFlix and made it to Season 2. The shark-jumping episode with DuShane and his lawyer made me shut off the set. It made absolutely no sense whatsoever. I do not even care what happened next. Just overall, a very depressing show.

I noticed this in an article and from the teaser adverts and said to myself that I would try it and hope it would be as interesting viewing as similar gripping teenage drama based films and dramas, e.g. Kidulthood, This Is England, Fish Tank, and I am glad I stuck with it. From the director of Dead Set, basically, set in Hackney, East London, on the Summerhouse housing estate, this follows a group of mostly black British people in the community who all, in some way or another, get involved with gangster style crime, gang culture and underground drug dealing and business. We follow thirteen year old Ra'Nell (introducing Malcolm Kamulete) and his friend who are pulled into helping in the illegal acts, Dushane (Bullet Boy's Ashley Walters) who runs the underground drug business with his friend Sully (Kane Robinson), along with their top don partner Bobby Raikes (Green Street's Geoff Bell), until he is killed, and originally pregnant Heather (Fish Tank's Kierston Wareing) who is growing a load of marijuana in a secret hideout to sell off. The events in the story are all dramatic, such as the occasionally killing of people and even a dog that is hanged, the affect of the drugs business are seen in many cases whether it is the people who care for the young characters highly concerned or those who do it, and we see the occasional weapons and fighting used. Also starring Sharon Duncan Brewster as Lisa, Nicholas Pinnock as Leon, Giacomo Mancini as Gem, Shone Romulus as Dris, Sean Sagar as Tareek, Letitia Wright as Chantelle, George Wood as Andre, Olivia Musangi as Precious and Benedict Wong as Vincent. If you like seeing young people and teenagers emotionally and physically tortured with their appalling life decisions and delving into illegal and wrong actions, like I have seen so many times in media, then this British drama series is definitely worth catching. Good!

Drama set in London about two friends and their gang trying to get rich the only way they know how; selling drugs. The cast is a mix of actors and grime artists such as Kano and Scorcher all of whom are from gang London so they know how the character should be therefore giving their characters true realism. The shows gives an inside look into London gang lifestyle on the estates of London and how kids become 'shotters' for the more notorious people on the estates. Each episode of Top Boy has a gripping storyline which keeps you wanting more; one millions viewers for a urban C4 show cannot be wrong. Not only is the acting good, but the soundtrack is phenomenal, showcasing a lot of London grime artists.