So here's another part of my country's crap I never knew about I guess.
And as the closing act of Small Axe, it does the job pretty well, leaving things on quite a hopeful note, and again being loaded with great performances and directing, and even some decent humour at points, which I wasn't expecting.
The broad strokes of what's good about this series have been the same throughout for me, but I do have my individual issues with all of them, and with this one, it's that the main character doesn't have much...well, character. Sure, you sympathize with him fine enough, but there could have been a bit more spice to it if we knew anything about him other than that he wants to be an astronaut.
And also, his mum is basically abusing and neglecting him for the first half of it, but when she realises that he's going to an intentionally terrible school she turns into the bloody mother of the year. Sorry, not buying it.
Maybe this, like Alex Wheatle, could have been improved with a bit more time to sort things out, but as it stands, I like it, and it was a great closer to this series.
