Top Boy is a Drama - Crime Fiction genre which is set in London and was directed by Yann Demange who also directed "Criminal Justice" and "Dead Set". The main actor in the TV programme is Ashley Walters who plays Dushane. Top Boy is inspired by real events that happen everday in London, all the actors have acquired the clothes of the typical youths in London such as hoods,bomber jackets and top brand trainers.
The iconography of this type of genre is council estates and camera shots of graffitied buildings to show the area is a rough place. The show follows a linear structure. At the start we see who the protagonists are and what they do, in this programme we are shown Dushane ( Ashley Walters) as the leader of the "Summer House gang" a group of young teenagers drug dealing around their estate with Dushane providing the drugs.
As the programme continues we find out that Dushane wants to become rich and be the "top boy" of the area hence the title of the programme, through the middle of the programme we encounter what seems to be the antagonist, another gang which are called "the Albanians" they hijack a drugs deal and leave with all the drugs which was meant to be delivered to Dushane to achieve his goal. In the end Dushane finds out who stole his drugs and gets his gang to assault the other gang and retrieve the drugs allowing him to sell the drugs to get his rewards.
Good clear analysis of Top Boy as a typical UK crime TV drama, with emphasis on gritty realism. Interesting focus on a specific episode; is it a one-off, or is the show a serial? For higher grade you could have considered other iconographic elements, like the costumes or the credit sequence. Grade B
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