This Is England, Ranked
My ranking of the drama series that follows a group northern skin-heads in the middle of Thatcher’s reign as prime-minister, from 1983 to 1990...
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- DirectorShane MeadowsStarsThomas TurgooseStephen GrahamJo HartleyA young boy becomes friends with a gang of skinheads. Friends soon become like family, and relationships will be pushed to the very limit.10/10
- DirectorShane MeadowsStarsHelen BehanNeil BellPerry BensonLol & Woody continue to plan their wedding, with unwanted help from their parents. Harvey makes a discovery about Kelly, much to Gadgets dismay. Combo & Milky meet and discuss the past.8.5/10
- DirectorShane MeadowsStarsPerry BensonIan BrownChanel CresswellOn the anniversary of Shaun's father's birthday Shaun is persuaded by Smell to return home and patch things up with his mother,which he does after she has caught them having sex on the sofa. Though living together Lol and Woody are drifting apart and Woody,unaware that Lol is having regular sex with him,asks Milky to act as go-between,which he attempts - unsuccessfully.Gadge,exhausted by Trudy's sexual appetite,leaves her on Harvey's advice but whilst everybody else is watching England play Poland in the World Cup on television,Mick rapes Lol's sister's friend,a girl called Trev,and a badly beaten Combo crashes into Shaun's house.8.5/10
- DirectorShane MeadowsStarsHelen BehanBilly BraithwaitSteve BrodyAs woody and Lol invite the gang to dinner, they reveal some shocking news about their past.8/10
- DirectorShane MeadowsStarsAndrew EllisAndrew ShimChanel CresswellAfter sleeping on Cynth's sofa overnight Combo explains that he has come back to see his terminally ill mother,but by the time he gets to her flat she has died. Lol and Woody sort themselves out and he plans a surprise wedding for her but she fails to show up,having found out about Mick's rape of Trev. She confronts him just as he is about to run out of the house and they have a fight,during which he tries to rape her too and she brains him with a hammer. As she is sitting,stunned,on the floor,help arrives from an unexpected source in an extraordinary act of redemption.8/10
- DirectorTom HarperStarsAndrew EllisAndrew ShimChanel CresswellIt's 1986 and Combo is out of prison following his near-fatal attack on Milky whilst Shaun leaves school certain of two things - he's failed his exams and his mother,Cynth,won't have bought him a scooter like his contemporaries have.Lol and Woody are getting married with catering courtesy of Meggy and flowers stolen from the graveyard by Gadget. However,at the registry office Woody gets cold feet, though the occasion is overshadowed by Meggy having a heart attack, The 'reception' takes place in his hospital room though a disgusted Lol spends more time confiding in Milky that she may have dated the wrong man. Shaun,hit over the head after a stunt to pull a girl by a bullying scooter rider goes wrong,turns up at casualty,thanks to Lol's estranged mother and her boyfriend Mick. He has his wound stitched but does not join the rest of the group.8/10
- DirectorShane MeadowsStarsAndrew EllisAndrew ShimChanel CresswellIn the early hours of Christmas Day Shaun confesses to his mother what he has done whilst Woody,walking home with Jennifer,meets his old gang and picks a fight with Milky,whom he accuses of splitting him up with Lol. Lol gains temporary peace by attending Midnight Mass but,still haunted by the ghost of Mick,takes an over-dose. After a heart to heart with the understanding Jennifer,Woody,informed by Trev of what has happened to Lol,rushes to see her in the hospital.She tells him of her guilt in that she killed Mick and let Combo take the blame for it, a fact which has haunted her for two years. As he comforts her it seems likely that they will reconcile - unlike Smell and Shaun,who are seen spending Christmas apart.8/10
- DirectorShane MeadowsStarsAndrew EllisAndrew ShimChanel CresswellDecember 23rd 1988: Lol, still haunted by images of Mick, is now a single mum and bringing up Lisa, her daughter by Milky, in a sparsely furnished flat; Milky visits her, bringing presents for the little girl. Woody is living with his parents and has a new girlfriend, Jennifer, and is offered a job promotion. He is deliberately distancing himself from his old friends; watching them through a window as they perform bad karaoke. Shaun, now a drama student and still dating Smell, begins falling for fellow student, Fay, his leading lady in their end-of-term play. After enduring a social evening with her eccentric father, they up kissing passionately in her bedroom.8/10
- DirectorShane MeadowsStarsHelen BehanBilly BraithwaitJames CorscaddenWoody and Lol host a barbecue, whilst the rest of the gang head out to the country for rave.8/10
- DirectorShane MeadowsStarsBilly BraithwaitSteve BrodyPaul CapatalIt's spring, and Shaun, Gadget and the others head to the town hall for a rave.8/10
- DirectorTom HarperStarsPerry BensonTom CottamChanel CresswellAfter Smell tells Woody and the gang she saw Shaun at the hospital they steal golf buggies to give him a rowdy serenade in the middle of the night and he returns to the fold.He gets a job at Mr. Sandhu's video rental shop but is appalled to find that he is Cynthia's new boy-friend when he catches them in bed and leaves home,sleeping in a toilet. Lol feels no happier. Reluctant to move into the filthy flat Woody has found them - where a junkie died and then putrefied - she returns home but is appalled that her mother has allowed Mick,who once apparently molested her,to come back. She confides in,and sleeps with,Milky,before going to Woody's flat. Gadge has a night of passion with the older single parent Trudy but is amazed to see that her little boy looks just like Meggy.8/10
- DirectorShane MeadowsStarsEmily AstonHelen BehanSteve BrodyChristmas Eve:- A depressed Lol opens up to a sympathetic nurse about her troubled past before visiting Combo in prison to thank him for his sacrifice. Returning home she has a night out with Milky whilst Woody and Jennifer celebrate his promotion by having a meal at a restaurant with his boss. The end of term play,watched by the gang,is a success but Smell catches Shaun in bed with Fay at the after show party and dumps him.7.5/10