Top Boy: Summerhouse S1 — 4/5
Across four episodes, this thing made me sick to my stomach exactly twice. It's not necessarily that I had fallen in love with any characters, but the notion that someone decent was going to get hurt filled me with dread, if not outright made me kind of rageful? I don't like mafia/gangster stuff because I think it turns awful people into heroes, but at least with the first season, it's the right balance of 'yes, these people are awful, and good people get hurt in the pursuit of selfish gains.' The show builds its anxiety not with that Safdie brothers shit, chaos through chaos, but through simpler means, and specifically through music, which I think the Safdies took cues from—the drone-y electronic music of 'Fuck Buttons' draws a clear line through to Oneothrix Point Never, and it's a great well to have pulled from.
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