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Top Boy is quite simply one of the best crime dramas of all time.

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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 168,715
    HAYSIE said:

    The summerhouse is the first 2 series.
    So you need to watch them first.

    There are 5 series in total.
    It gets better as it goes on.



    Sigh.


    I blame you for not warning me. Now I'm all out of sequence.

    So I need to go back & start again now with the two Summerhouse series?

  • mumsiemumsie Member Posts: 7,925
    Ive finished this now, it was superb, acting totally believable and top notch.

    I did find myself confused at times with some of the characters and plot but overall, It didnt spoil any of my enjoyment.
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,517
    Tikay10 said:

    HAYSIE said:

    The summerhouse is the first 2 series.
    So you need to watch them first.

    There are 5 series in total.
    It gets better as it goes on.



    Sigh.


    I blame you for not warning me. Now I'm all out of sequence.

    So I need to go back & start again now with the two Summerhouse series?

    You must have missed this post on the previous page.
    I did my best.

    How to watch Top Boy in order on Netflix
    How many Top Boy seasons are there and what is Top Boy: Summerhouse?



    https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/top-boy-watch-in-order/
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 168,715

    I try not to read your Posts.
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,517
    Tikay10 said:


    I try not to read your Posts.

    You are not alone.
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,517
    edited September 2023
    Tikay10 said:


    I try not to read your Posts. </blockquote




    Series Episodes

    1_ 4

    2_ 4

    3_ 10

    4_ 8

    5_ 6



  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,517




    Plot

    Series 1 (2011)
    The series follows the plight of Ra'nell as he navigates the pitfalls of living on the crime-filled Summerhouse estate after his mother, Lisa, is admitted to a mental hospital. Ra'Nell, who has gained a reputation around the estate for his volatile behaviour after stabbing his abusive father, is quiet and closed off. While his mother is in hospital, he is cared for by her close friend, Leon, who was once a respected enforcer of the estate but has since put his past behind him. Meanwhile, Lisa's friend Heather enlists Ra'Nell's help to grow a cannabis crop so she can earn enough money to move out of the estate and raise her unborn child somewhere safer.

    Meanwhile, his best friend, Gem, finds himself in over his head when he begins to work as a drug dealer for Summerhouse kingpins Dushane and Sully. Gem is easily coerced and finds himself at the mercy of their trusted enforcer, Dris, who is ruthless and violent.

    Dushane and Sully run the estate together with relative ease, but when Kamale, a rival drug dealer from London Fields, steals a large amount of their supply, they are forced to hunt down the thief before their supplier, Bobby Raikes, takes action. The urgency of the chase puts Dushane and Sully's partnership in jeopardy.

    Series 2 (2013)
    The second series was set one year after the events of the first series. After the police uncover a body, Dushane, Sully, and Dris are arrested. Dushane quickly realises that there is a snitch in their crew, and must deal with the repercussions. The snitch is revealed to be Michael, Dushane's favourite dealer, who was forced by the police to give information about Dushane.

    Meanwhile, Sully is attempting to start up his own crew to rival Dushane's with his friend Mike, a borderline psychopathic ex-convict. When a deal with Dushane's Albanian business partners goes bad, he attempts to enlist Sully's help once more to take them out. He comes into contact with Jason, a neglected boy who is trying to survive in a world filled with drugs and murder.

    Series 3 (2019)

    The first series of the revival series takes place six years after the original series. Dushane has fled to Jamaica, where he is getting by working in his cousin's car-rental shop. When he makes a business deal with imprisoned drug lord Sugar, he returns to London to sell Sugar's product and become Top Boy once again, with the help of Dris and Jaq, who were running Summerhouse while Dushane was away. However, a new crew from London Fields, headed by the ruthless Jamie, won't stand for Dushane stepping on their turf.

    Since Dushane left for Jamaica, London has become more gentrified and cost of living has risen. He also comes home to learn that his sick mother is now under the care of Shelley, a young carer and single mother to an eight-year-old girl, who begins to form a strong relationship with Dushane.

    Sully is in prison with Modie, a murderous drug dealer who ran the rival London Fields gang in Dushane and Sully's absence. An altercation between the two men when queuing up in the prison cafeteria escalates to the point that Sully throws boiling sugar water on Modie's face days before he is due to be released; this serves to make Sully an enemy of Modie, who seeks revenge on Sully when, later in the series, he eventually escapes prison with the help of Sully's cousin Jermaine, whom Sully had kidnapped in the previous series. When Sully is released, he reconnects with Jason and Gem to begin selling in Ramsgate. However, after Jason is killed in a house fire, Sully reluctantly reunites with Dushane and the two start doing business once again. Meanwhile, Dris, having suffered a stroke that has left him partially disabled, struggles with his responsibilities upon Dushane's return.

    Jamie attempts to assert his dominance in the borough, driven to provide for his younger brothers, Aaron and Stefan, as their parents both developed cancer and died within days of each other, when Jamie was just 18-years-old. He starts business with an upper-class Irish drug supplier, Lizzie, and her husband, Jeffery, and his thirst for power and subsequent battles with Dushane's crew at Summerhouse serve as the main plot throughout this series and culminate in Dushane orchestrating Jamie being sent to prison after police are led to find a bag filled with weapons and drugs in the flat that Jamie lives in with his brothers.

    Series 4 (2022)
    The second series of the revival series takes place six months after the events of the last. Dushane wants to expand his empire beyond the streets by making huge investments in London and finding new connects in Spain and Morocco, which causes tensions between the community and his sick mother, who is now aware and ashamed of her son's business.

    Jamie has been released from prison, and his gang begins to work with the Summerhouse gang. He attempts to reconnect with his younger brother, Stefan, following his friend Ats's death due to knife crime but is sent by Dushane to sort out a botched drug deal in Spain and Morocco.

    Jaq, Dushane's new second-in-command following the death of Dris, tries to rescue her pregnant older sister Lauryn, who is in an abusive relationship with Liverpool-based weapons dealer Curtis.

    Sully, suffering from PTSD as he comes to terms with murdering Dris and the death of his son figure and friend Jason, is suspicious about Jamie and Dushane doing business together. Meanwhile, Shelley and other local residents try to fight against Dushane's redevelopments for Summerhouse, while Shelley herself comes to terms with her dark past, which causes her to be blackmailed for aiding in the burial of her ex-boyfriend's murder victim.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Boy
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,517
    Tikay10 said:

    HAYSIE said:

    The summerhouse is the first 2 series.
    So you need to watch them first.

    There are 5 series in total.
    It gets better as it goes on.



    Sigh.


    I blame you for not warning me. Now I'm all out of sequence.

    So I need to go back & start again now with the two Summerhouse series?

    See if you can get it right tonight.

    To be fair to Netflix they do give you a clue.
    Top Boy Summerhouse 2011 2 series.
    Top Boy 2023 3 seasons.
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,517
    HAYSIE said:

    Tikay10 said:


    @HAYSIE


    What do you reckon Tony, is it any good?

    There was an Irish series called Love/Hate starring Aidan Gillen that was similar to Top Boy, that was very good as well.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfheHH6iDrc
    The Irish madman from the last series of Top Boy, appears in 6 episodes of this.
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,517
    Tikay10 said:


    I try not to read your Posts.

    How you getting on with it?
  • mumsiemumsie Member Posts: 7,925
    HAYSIE said:

    HAYSIE said:

    Tikay10 said:


    @HAYSIE


    What do you reckon Tony, is it any good?

    There was an Irish series called Love/Hate starring Aidan Gillen that was similar to Top Boy, that was very good as well.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfheHH6iDrc
    The Irish madman from the last series of Top Boy, appears in 6 episodes of this.
    That Irish chap did play a brilliant part well.
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,517
    mumsie said:

    HAYSIE said:

    HAYSIE said:

    Tikay10 said:


    @HAYSIE


    What do you reckon Tony, is it any good?

    There was an Irish series called Love/Hate starring Aidan Gillen that was similar to Top Boy, that was very good as well.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfheHH6iDrc
    The Irish madman from the last series of Top Boy, appears in 6 episodes of this.
    That Irish chap did play a brilliant part well.
    He was a very credible lunatic.
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 168,715
    edited September 2023
    HAYSIE said:

    Tikay10 said:


    I try not to read your Posts.

    How you getting on with it?
    @HAYSIE


    Gill came to stay for a long weekend, & I can't really subject her to my choice in TV, she's still into Fools & Horses, Are You Being Served & **** like that.

    She goes home on Monday morning, so I'll get back on it on Monday night. I probably needed a few days break so I could transition across to the Summerhouse thing, after you made me watch the wrong series initially. It's not easy reverting to the first series after watching 5 episodes of the next series.

    I apportion 100% of the blame to you, the rest is on me.

    PS - Give my warmest regards to Vicky.
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,517
    Tikay10 said:

    HAYSIE said:

    Tikay10 said:


    I try not to read your Posts.

    How you getting on with it?
    @HAYSIE


    Gill came to stay for a long weekend, & I can't really subject her to my choice in TV, she's still into Fools & Horses, Are You Being Served & **** like that.

    She goes home on Monday morning, so I'll get back on it on Monday night. I probably needed a few days break so I could transition across to the Summerhouse thing, after you made me watch the wrong series initially. It's not easy reverting to the first series after watching 5 episodes of the next series.

    I apportion 100% of the blame to you, the rest is on me.

    PS - Give my warmest regards to Vicky.
    That seems fair.
    I will.
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