The message was always bleak, and throughout these last six episodes the song remains the same. Right back in the first series, Dushane (Ashley Walters), setting out on his tortuous drug -dealing path, declared that 'I haven't anything to be but this'. The destiny that put him on a career ladder into ever-deeper darkness for ever-greater stakes eventually delivered the only conclusion possible. The end was contained in the beginning. An extra twist of sordid amorality is added this time around by the arrival of the unpleasant McGee gang, fronted by the bumptious Jonny (Barry Keoghan, a long-standing Top Boy fan).

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