YOUNGERS

"SOUTH LONDON IS BACK ON THE MAP IN NEW E4 DRAMA"

New drama "YOUNGERS" is set to make it's television debut tonight on E4. First impressions of the advert...Kidulthood the TV series? However with a 7:30pm pre-watershed time slot I highly doubt it will be as dark and gritty with excessive violence, sex & foul language. *sigh*

CHECK OUT THE TRAILER FOR "YOUNGERS" HERE

The advert pretty much says it all to be honest. A kid trying to get out of the hood. Music is his passion. Struggles with identity. Love interest. Gets into trouble with a local ruffian and then probably makes it and lands a record deal or it could go very left and he ends up getting killed. But I'm not one to put down a show before I've seen it. I was granted an exclusive first preview by E4 as I was invited to an advance screening of the pilot episode. OK I lied, I just watched it on 4OD and you can watch it as well if you register.  

So it ticked the majority of boxes of what I expected to see in a show like this. Two best friends, Yemi & Jay. "Pinky and the Brain" as I like to call them. One is a genius the others insane but they both have a passion for music. So Jay signs them up for a music competition called MicStar which Yemi is reluctant to enter as his traditional Nigerian mother disproves.  The episode featured appearances by YouTube celebrities "Mandem On The Wall" playing there usual role as being...mandem on the wall as the joke about living the YOLO (You Only Live Once) lifestyle and brags about getting in the Music Industry & the Pimping Industry. Yeah your typical "Wasteman" (A person who sits around doing nothing all day who has no ambition or plan in life) you usually see on road who are always "Getting Money"

A key moment I found funny was the scene where Jay shows the mandem on the wall his phone of a girl he is seeing but then of them switches to the next picture to reveal a half naked picture of Jay. He screams and complains that his eyes are burning.

It was a good first episode and definitely reaches it's audience of secondary school and college students. It has been a while since we have had something like this on screens. The last show we had that I can remember was "TOP BOY." I can see that this show wants to shed a more positive light showing that South London is not all about gang culture, drugs and merciless killings like how the media tends to portray it. So I hope it does well. Kudos to E4 for giving something like this the green light.

CATCH "YOUNGERS" STARTING WEDNESDAY 20th MARCH 7:30pm ONLY ON E4