Oh shyt... Looks like Drake is actually bringing back UK TV show Top Boy [MAJOR MOVE]

[Doomsday]

Shut the fukk up with the tough talk breh. Everywhere in the world can be dangerous.

Make me shut up cac. Can be don't mean that it is. That's why Yo Gotti said what he said about yaw fake ass wannabes.

 

[Dushane Hill]

Great that it's getting a new series, for me it's the best "urban" UK show. Two enjoyable seasons but I think I preferred the first.

Not sure why people are nitpicking talking about it being "unrealistic". The only part for me that was unrealistic was when they robbed them Albanian gangsters and DuShane fukking his legal aid lawyer. But it's a TV show ffs, there were parts in The Wire that were unrealistic.

As for the whole "UK nikkas aint gangsters" thing, why are people even entertaining this debate. Theres a handful of CAC trolls on this forum that will start with this anytime a UK related thread is made. shyt is pathetic.

 

[head shots101]

Great that it's getting a new series, for me it's the best "urban" UK show. Two enjoyable seasons but I think I preferred the first.

Not sure why people are nitpicking talking about it being "unrealistic". The only part for me that was unrealistic was when they robbed them Albanian gangsters and DuShane fukking his legal aid lawyer. But it's a TV show ffs, there were parts in The Wire that were unrealistic.

As for the whole "UK nikkas aint gangsters" thing, why are people even entertaining this debate. Theres a handful of CAC trolls on this forum that will start with this anytime a UK related thread is made. shyt is pathetic.

shyt is fukking tv show man...I hope they don't bring it to chi town and leave it in the uk...im a big fan of uk tv....they got gamgsters everywhere man

thread turned into us v.s uk on some corny shyt

 

[MikeyC]

Make me shut up cac. Can be don't mean that it is. That's what Yo Gotti said what he said about yaw fake ass wannabes.

You been to the UK?

 

[WickedGames]

Great that it's getting a new series, for me it's the best "urban" UK show. Two enjoyable seasons but I think I preferred the first.

Not sure why people are nitpicking talking about it being "unrealistic". The only part for me that was unrealistic was when they robbed them Albanian gangsters and DuShane fukking his legal aid lawyer. But it's a TV show ffs, there were parts in The Wire that were unrealistic.

As for the whole "UK nikkas aint gangsters" thing, why are people even entertaining this debate. Theres a handful of CAC trolls on this forum that will start with this anytime a UK related thread is made. shyt is pathetic.

There were a lot of parts that were VERY unrealistic But still the best show of all time for me.

 

[WickedGames]

Yeah right. The last Canadian I ran into I smacked him up. The last UK broad I ran into, I shoved my dikk down her throat. She admitted before she swallowed me them cats was wannabe lames.

 

[Nemesis]

Kano surprised me the most to be honest ........

 

[FromBillionsCameOne]

A friend of mine that lived in England for a few years told me how over there a lot of the series' are short lived for some reason but Top Boy was so fukking good and unfinished I don't understand why anyone would HAVE to help bring it back let alone a dork from Canada. I binge watched that shyt in like 4 days a couple years ago.

 

[Dushane Hill]

You was in the suburbs in those states stop frontin.

Walked past Brevoort Houses in Bed-Stuy the summer before last at like 11pm, whole bunch of nikkas out and guess what?

Nothing happened to me, now what?

 

[Dushane Hill]

A friend of mine that lived in England for a few years told me how over there a lot of the series' are short lived for some reason but Top Boy was so fukking good and unfinished I don't understand why anyone would HAVE to help bring it back let alone a dork from Canada. I binge watched that shyt in like 4 days a couple years ago.

Mainstream TV over here doesn't really support black shows/actors.

 

[King Sun]

I loved this show. I hope it does come back.

 

[DeuceZ]

Didn't like how season 2 ended. ...why they do that to the young boy blood

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

The writing on this show was lazy but the performances were good for the most part. It's entertaining enough to be worth producing another season... the UK is not the same market at all as the US though so the demand might not be there.

Honestly though, I'm not feeling the fact that this show was written, produced and directed entirely by white men (writer/creator Ronan Bennett, directors Yann Demange & Jonathan Van Tulleken) when Africans already have a hard enough time with being represented well over there in the UK. Poverty in the UK may or may not be less segregated than here but the vast majority of the characters on this show are black and its obviously being marketed as a look into "urban black life". I'm willing to bet Bennett shopped this script around to some black directors who probably declined because they didn't want to attach their name to overtly stereotypical material.

 

[Dushane Hill]

The writing on this show was lazy but the performances were good for the most part. It's entertaining enough to be worth producing another season... the UK is not the same market at all as the US though so the demand might not be there.

Honestly though, I'm not feeling the fact that this show was written, produced and directed entirely by white men (writer/creator Ronan Bennett, directors Yann Demange & Jonathan Van Tulleken) when Africans already have a hard enough time with being represented well over there in the UK. Poverty in the UK may or may not be less segregated than here but the vast majority of the characters on this show are black and its obviously being marketed as a look into "urban black life". I'm willing to bet Bennett shopped this script around to some black directors who probably declined because they didn't want to attach their name to overtly stereotypical material.

Thats the sad thing. These type of UK dramas only seem to get given a mainstream platform if they're written by white people.

Whenever black people write or make them they'll only ever see Youtube views.

You should check out Circle Of Revenge on youtube....basically the London/UK version of Money & Violence (It actually came out before M&V, may have even been an influence).....as in same production values and very amateur, but still quite good. A lot of people over here prefer it to Top Boy.

 

[FromBillionsCameOne]

The writing on this show was lazy but the performances were good for the most part. It's entertaining enough to be worth producing another season... the UK is not the same market at all as the US though so the demand might not be there.

Honestly though, I'm not feeling the fact that this show was written, produced and directed entirely by white men (writer/creator Ronan Bennett, directors Yann Demange & Jonathan Van Tulleken) when Africans already have a hard enough time with being represented well over there in the UK. Poverty in the UK may or may not be less segregated than here but the vast majority of the characters on this show are black and its obviously being marketed as a look into "urban black life". I'm willing to bet Bennett shopped this script around to some black directors who probably declined because they didn't want to attach their name to overtly stereotypical material.

I guess it doesn't seem stereotypical for me just cause it's based in London