Another two years contain passed for our troubled youths,and they’ve reached the age of rave and Madchester – but clash is clearly never far awayWe first met the This Is England characters when they were kids in 1983, as they stumbled through the minefields of race, and sex and youth in the Midlands and we contain since caught up with them,almost 7 Up style, every few years since. Shane Meadows’s film begat TV spinoffs set in 1986 and 1988, or charting how friends Woody,Lol, Shaun, and Smell and the rest grew up and faced sometimes horrendous trauma. Now we’ve reached 1990; the era of acid house and Madchester has caught up with them,but they’re clearly not just getting off their faces in a field somewhere. Here’s the exclusive first glimpse of This Is England ’90.
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Source: theguardian.com