‘That was my life every day and nobody knew’ How Top Boy gave a voice to the voiceless.
When Top Boy was axed by Channel 4, it left a huge gulf in the TV schedule that has never really been replaced, commissioners preferring to spend their money on safer bets that don’t look at the quagmire of societal issues facing 21st Century Britain.
The wild boy antics of Dushane and Sully are what brought many to Top Boy but it’s the immersive, fully realised depiction of London’s dispossessed and underserved that keep the viewer hooked. Top Boy is not Peaky Blinders – there is no fun to be had, no style and flash, the lives it depicts are hard and unknown to many in Britain who are perhaps ignorant to the plight of others or deliberately elect to remain blind to societal problems bigger than them.
Top Boy gave a voice to the silenced and that’s why, 11 years after it first appeared on Channel 4, four since it was revived on Netflix, it remains absolutely vital.
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