Top Boy: Season 5

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Channel 4 | Netflix | Season Premiere Date: September 7, 2023

Summary: The final season features Barry Keoghan and Brian Gleeson as the story of Dushane and his friend Sully concludes.

[On Netflix as Top Boy: Season 3]

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, Action & Adventure

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The Observer (UK) Barbara Ellen

Sep 10, 2024

This final series isn’t perfect (it feels a couple of episodes short, and some sociopolitical elements seem Blu-Tacked on), but these are quibbles. Overall, what a blast, what a cast, what a genre-defining ride. Top that, indeed. Read full review

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The Telegraph Jasper Rees

Sep 7, 2023

Perhaps a storyline inspired by the Windrush Scandal feels a bit behind the curve. Not so a script that entraps a fresh generation of children and even babies. While this addictive saga will exit with a satisfying bang, that’s the real story that never ends. Read full review

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The Guardian Leila Latif

Sep 7, 2023

The show sees them [Sully and Dushane ] as three-dimensional men in the throes of a Shakespearean tragedy. There can only be one Top Boy, but there is no shortage of reasons to recommend this powerful and potent conclusion. Read full review

Radio Times Morgan Jeffery

Sep 1, 2023

If the biggest criticism you can level at a TV show is that it leaves you wanting more, that's hardly a harsh condemnation – this final Top Boy could have easily justified a couple more episodes, but what we get remains a powerful send-off for an important series with a stellar ensemble cast who are at the very top of their game. Read full review

Johnny Loftus

Sep 7, 2023

The mood is taut and tense as the final six episodes of Top Boy play out, with Dushane and Sully vying for control of the East London drug trade and the Summerhouse estate existing at the center of a changing social climate. Read full review

i Emily Baker

Sep 7, 2023

But it’s not the stories or the action that you remember long after the episodes have ended. Instead, it’s the incredible performances that stick with you. Read full review

The Independent Nick Hilton

Sep 1, 2023

This concluding chapter of the Top Boy saga pulls none of its punches – if anything it makes too many of them, like a rabbit-punching flyweight – and demonstrates that a big American streamer can be trusted to tell Black, British stories. Read full review

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SimboTheKing

Sep 11, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Broadly liked this season but the details felt quite rushed to me. Some of the characters and arcs from last season seemingly disappeared into nowhere and I don't think the reduced episode count helped this either. I enjoyed the main character's endings (Dushane and Sully) and felt they were well written. Outside of them and maybe Stef though so many other characters got done a bit dirty with either rushed or illogical storylines. None-the-less, I appreciate the message and type of show they were trying to construct here but it just felt a bit mid this season. It's a shame such a good show has had such a timid ending unfortunately.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 5

88
- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: September 7, 2023
- No episode information is currently available for this season
Season 4

83
- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: March 18, 2022
Season 3

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- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: September 13, 2019
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: August 20, 2013
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: October 31, 2011