JUNGLE IS NOT THE MOST CONVENTIONAL TV SHOW YOU’LL EVER WATCH. In one sense, it’s is a spiritual successor to the likes of Top Boy, given its gun-toting storylines and cast whose crime-based livelihoods circle London’s drug trade. But it’s also a musical – British TV’s first drill musical, in fact – and the bulk of the actors are prominent UK drill and grime MCs. It’s also set in a sci-fi alternate reality where England’s capital is full of fictional technology like under-skin watches, cars with barcodes for licence plates and cops armed with electrified billy clubs. If you had to give it a genre, it would be crime-fi-rap-opera. “We didn’t just want to make a typical gangster drama,” says Jungle co-creator Junior Okoli. “Congratulations to all the productions before us, I think they’ve done an amazing job, but we wanted to do something totally different.”
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