 After 12 years Top Boy is coming to a dramatic end. Soon the cast will say no more, fam for good. Over the course of five series, we've watched Dushane [Ashley Walters] and Sully [Kane Roninson] make up and break up more times than Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The sometimes competing gangsters, other times co-conspirators, constantly going back and forth, as well as fighting with their own loose moral compasses. Now we're finally getting an epic conclusion, and the answer to who really is the top boy. But as Sully once said, just because you didn't lose doesn't mean you win. However, there is one clear winner in the series – the viewer who is going to feel immensely satisfied by the conclusion. Last series, we saw Dushane attempt to start going legit, Summerhouse residents get handed eviction notices, sisters Jaq [Jasmine Jobson] and pregnant Lauryn [Saffron Hocking] murder her abusive boyfriend, and finally things concluded with the shocking death of Jamie [Michael Ward], after Sully decided to end his life. Things pick up right where we left off, and as always in Top Boy things move on quickly – mourning a main character is something we've had to quickly become accustomed to in this Netflix revival (although we may never emotionally recover from the death of Keiyon Cook's Ats). In the final outing, the series proves itself as one of the best crime dramas of all time, and this is down to its unique approach to the material. It has never presented the main characters' lifestyle as glamorous and desirable like some pieces in the genre, such as Power or Euphoria. Aside from Dushane's swanky apartment, the fancy cars and occasional nightclub scene, it's pretty rooted in realism. These aren't characters who've been given many options in life, so we weirdly find ourselves rooting for the anti-heroes. Sully's relationship with his daughter Tash [Felicia Mukas){kind=link}
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After 12 years Top Boy is coming to a dramatic end. Soon the cast will say no more, fam for good.
Over the course of five series, we’ve watched Dushane [Ashley Walters] and Sully [Kane Roninson] make up and break up more times than Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
The sometimes competing gangsters, other times co-conspirators, constantly going back and forth, as well as fighting with their own loose moral compasses. Now we’re finally getting an epic conclusion, and the answer to who really is the top boy. But as Sully once said, just because you didn’t lose doesn’t mean you win. However, there is one clear winner in the series – the viewer who is going to feel immensely satisfied by the conclusion.
Last series, we saw Dushane attempt to start going legit, Summerhouse residents get handed eviction notices, sisters Jaq [Jasmine Jobson] and pregnant Lauryn [Saffron Hocking] murder her abusive boyfriend, and finally things concluded with the shocking death of Jamie [Michael Ward], after Sully decided to end his life.