Top Boy
Graham Craycraft Top Boy is a 2019 Netflix original spawning from two previous seasons of a 2011 show called Top Boy: Summerhouse. All three seasons were created by Ronan Bennett and have many of the same main characters. This review, however, is here to talk about the 2019 reboot. The show follows two rival drug gangs fighting for territorial control in a section of London, England. Jamie, played by Micheal Ward, leads the Zero Tolerance gang while Dushane and Sully, played by Ashley Walters and Kane Robinson respectively, lead the Summerhouse gang named for the territory they occupy. The show is filled with violence, thick London accents and slang, and a large emphasis on family. As the episodes progress we see that each prominent member of the gangs has some family baggage they carry around. I say baggage only because it is heavy and often gets in the way of a clear path to the top, but the characters prove time and again that they will do anything in their power to ...