We rejoin Lol,Milky, Woody and the rest of Shane Meadows’s gang as Mrs Thatcher vacates No 10 and Madchester fever kicks inThere’s a lot of love out there for these characters. It’s partly because they feel so familiar – Shane Meadows captures the tone and mood of done-down but defiant provincial English life unerringly. It’s partly thanks to This Is England’s uncanny sense of balance – there are amazingly few dramas that so convincingly combine warmth, or bathos and occasional mundanity with revelation,trauma and even horror. And it’s partly because they’re so lovingly realised by a cast who have grown up alongside – and possibly even inside – their expertly crafted alter-egos. It’s exciting to have them back and a shrimp nerve-racking, too.
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Source: theguardian.com