Although it's billed as Season 3? That's because there are two seasons of something called Top Boy: Summerhouse which fit in I don't know how. Innit?
Some of the slang is on websites helpfully translating it for American audiences.
Q tells me the production team are very good at hiring black crew in apprenticeships to try and help them into the notoriously white-top-heavy film industry.
Sully (Kane Robinson) has taken over the drugs business. Dushane (Ashley Walters) is happy to take a back seat and fund Shelley's nail shops venture (Little Simz). But the drugs business is hijacked by an Oirish fellow - none other than Barry Keoghan (as it looks 'Kee-o-gan'), and Dushane's £15m has done a runner.
Meanwhile Jaq (Jasmine Jobson) is still efficiently running the dealers ("Say less"), but young Stefan (Araloyin Oshunremi) is feeling the loss of his big brother.
Fabulous set piece in episode 3 of a shoot out in an old people's home, has something of a hint of The Godfather to it, somehow. (And of course you can't help thinking generally about shows like The Wire and Gomorrah. Do you think the Neapolitans and the Londoners keep watching the other's shows?)
And the sequence involving the Summerhouse community refusing to let one of their own be deported, is - Q reckons - a reference to the Windrush scandal.
To answer my opening question, it appears that when Netflix picked up the series in 2017, they labelled the first two four-episode seasons, which were made by Channel 4 and broadcast in 2011 and 2013 Top Boy: Summerhouse. It was while researching this that I realised we hadn't seen last year's season 4 yet, so we had to abandon this ship until we had.
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