In the new season, 15-year-old Ra'Nell appears as he begins to follow more about what happens after trials have started everywhere. Ra'Nell follows his head down, but his beautiful friend Jim is trapped in events he can't really cope with. In those moments, Lisa, Ra'Nell 's mother, begins a new beginning after her nervous breakdown, as she tries to start running a hairdressing salon with her friend Zoe.
But the end to what had been another bleakly absorbing run of Top Boy (C4) left me reeling. Did that really happen? I had to hit reverse and watch it again.
From the opening...to an immaculate score from Brian Eno, mixing London grime sounds with his own sense of the alienated indifference of the streets, this has been television drama at its outstanding best