Top Boy

2012 • Australian Broadcasting Corporation

4,3

3 reviews

Eligible

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Season 1 episodes (4)

1 Episode 1

12/01/06

Season-only

Thirteen-year-old Ra'Nell finds he has to "step up and be a man" when his mother Lisa has a breakdown and is hospitalised. At the same time his mum's friend Heather, enlists his help in a dangerous plan she has concocted to give her unborn baby the chances she never had - "even if it means doing one wrong thing to get to the right place."

2 Episode 2

12/01/13

Season-only

Drug dealers, Dushane and Sully find themselves in huge debt after their drugs are stolen. Meanwhile Ra'Nell helps his mum's friend grow cannabis in order to give her and her baby a good life.

3 Episode 3

12/01/20

Season-only

Dushane and Sully know time is running out to repay their debt to Bobby. Ra'Nell's mum, Lisa, returns home to pick up the pieces of her life, supremely unaware of Ra'Nell's recent activities.

4 Episode 4

12/01/27

Season-only

Dushane's loyalty to his hot-headed accomplice and best friend, Sully, is tested to the limit when he discovers him openly carrying a murder weapon.
With the police out in force and their situation spiraling out of control, Raikes offers Dushane a monstrous solution to all of his problems.

About this show

Set in the fictitious Summerhouse Estate, Top Boy is an honest and gripping rendition of inner-city urban drug and gang culture in East London. Thirteen-year-old Ra'Nell is left alone after his mentally ill mother Lisa is suddenly hospitalised. At the same time his mum's friend Heather, pregnant and penniless, enlists Ra'Nell's help in a dangerous plan she has concocted to give her baby the chances she never had. Meanwhile, Dushane runs a thriving drug business with his friend Sully and makes a deal with drug barron, Bobby Raikes, in hope of becoming top boy at Summerhouse.

Ratings and reviews

4,3

3 reviews