Mest 3 Text Analysis - Top Boy

Top Boy is a British television drama series, which was first broadcast on Channel 4. The four episodes were broadcast over consecutive nights, from 31 October to 3 November 2011. Set on the fictional Summerhouse housing estate in Hackney, North London, the series follows the lives of a group of criminals involved in drug dealing and street gangs.


The programme is set in the modern era of london, and represents the lack culture and their life struggle growing up in the rough parts of london. The programme targets the audience of youth teenagers, age from 15 - 25 at least, with the explicit language that is used and the violence that is involved.


The independent quoted ' The drama involved virtually no preaching at all, but a sense of morality was everywhere, as bad conscience flickered in the face of the toughest characters and grief hit the culpable and the blameless alike. Best of all, it always found a little time for something other than plot, whether it was banter on stairwells or the melancholy beauty of the city at night. Seriously good television.' 


http://www.channel4.com/programmes/top-boy


The link will bring you straight to the website of the programme, the website includes videos and episodes catch up incase you didn't watch the programme. The website also includes interviews with the cast on how the programme was shot and what each character plays in the programme.