Synopsis
Top Boy (2011) is a British crime drama series you can watch online on iFILM. Set on the Summerhouse estate in Hackney, London — one of the city's most deprived corners — the show was directed by Yann Demange and Jonathan van Tulleken with a documentary-level commitment to getting the details right.
Dushane and Sully are mid-level street dealers who want to run the estate. Around them: teenagers used as runners, single mothers growing weed just to afford a move out, and a thirteen-year-old kid named Jason who gets pulled deeper into the trade the longer his mother stays in hospital. Ashley Walters and Kane Robinson — the rapper Kano — play the leads with the kind of underplayed menace that makes the violence feel consequential rather than exciting. Early appearances from Letitia Wright and Michaela Coel are worth spotting.
Originally broadcast on Channel 4, the series was later revived by Netflix with Drake as executive producer. Top Boy is not a gangster fantasy. It is closer to a social document — the story of people the city forgot, told without a safety net. Stream all episodes of Top Boy online on iFILM.
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