Martin Doyle

It's like kind of, you know, it is a heartland of black American culture, both music and film and television and so forth.

Danny Glover, I'm always getting my name wrong now, but I think it's Danny Glover, plays the lead character who is kind of

advisor gopher for his cousin who is this black rapper and you know it's a like it's like something like all the best dramas in my opinion are also comedies um like some of the ones you've mentioned like the you know sopranos succession in many parts all of these are ultimately comedies as well um so it's funny but it's also you know it's deeply moving so it's a portrayal of you

you know, a tranche of society that is not mine, but it's brilliantly done.

And it also, it doesn't just sort of stick to realism.

It is more ambitious than that.

It sort of takes you to kind of different places.

Yeah.

So again, I guess, like I mentioned earlier on, you know, my kind of passion or predilection for North of England working class.

So this is set in Nottingham, where Shane Meadows, the director, is from and writer.

And so that's probably more English Midlands.

But it is such a hugely powerful, moving film.

series that sort of spans from the punk era through Thatcherism to more recent times.

You know, it's set in a kind of a working class milieu in Nottingham.

Brilliant characterisation.

There's love stories, there's friendships, but there's also serious social issues, racism.

you know, working class alienation, poverty and so forth.

Honestly, I can't recommend it highly enough.

I don't know if you saw, there was one that was, one of his that he sort of set in Dundalk or something.

Can't remember the name of it, but it was superb as well.