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Why Netflix's Top Boy is so popular across the pond

With the third and final season of Netflix’s UK crime series Top Boy out now, culture critic Ian Steaman talks about the show’s legacy and why it resonated so much with fans around the world.

Culture critic Ian Steaman talks about the show’s legacy as its final season drops online

A still from Top Boy Season 3 on Netflix.
A still from Top Boy Season 3 on Netflix. (Netflix)

The critically acclaimed series Top Boy is returning to Netflix for a third and final season.

The series follows childhood friends Dushane and Sully, who grow up to be drug dealers on the fictional Summerhouse estate in the London Borough of Hackney. As their business relationship evolves and new problems arise, the final chapter will decide who can reign as Top Boy of Summerhouse.

Culture critic Ian Steaman talks about the show's legacy and why it resonated so much with fans on this side of the pond.

WATCH | Official trailer for Season 3 of Top Boy:

You can listen to the full discussion from today's show on CBC Listen or on our podcast, Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, available wherever you get your podcasts.


Interview with Ian Steaman produced by Ty Callender.