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Dushane and Sully face off in the brilliantly brutal final series of Top Boy; an unlikely couple fall in love in a dark Belfast anti-romcom; and Elizabeth Olsen shines as a real-life Texas housewife turned axe murdererTop Boy (Netflix)The Lovers (Sky Atlantic/NowLove & Death (ITVX) | itv.comUkraine: Holocaust Ground Zero (Channel 4) | channel4.comIn a bumper opening week for the new autumn schedule, all I can say is: British television, you’re spoiling me. And never more so than with the third and final six-part Netflix series of Ronan Bennett’s UK-set drug-dealing odyssey Top Boy (count the first two Channel 4 series and it’s the fifth). This is the last opportunity for face time with Dushane (Ashley Walters), Sully (Kane “Kano” Robinson) et al, and the overriding ethos seems to be: make every brutal, hopeless, heart-squeezing second count. Continue reading...