In the pilot’s cold open, we cut between shots of waves crashing on a beach, a Black boy staring at a burning house, dictionary text and an ominous flip clock while the lead character has a prophetic conversation over the phone.
The British drill-rap series, now streaming on Prime Video, establishes an avant-garde visual language and poetic sensibility right out the gate. In the pilot’s cold open, we cut between shots of waves crashing on a beach, a Black boy staring at a burning house, dictionary text and an ominous flip clock while the lead character, Gogo , has a prophetic conversation over the phone.
After he ends the call, a narrator explains to us that the fictional, violent scenarios we’re about to witness are, indeed, the real experiences of actual people trying to survive in impoverished inner cities. “What if I told you that this was our world?” he asks.