Enemy fire could come from all directions. Air sickness threatened to fill up a vomit bag at any moment. Between engineering failures, bad weather and high-altitude personnel clashes, the bar for success was often just returning to the landing strip alive. Back on the ground, bar brawls and office politics awaited.
It will be the third series in Netflix's reboot, but technically series five, after the streamer re-branded the first two Channel 4 series as Top Boy: Summerhouse.
A reminder—and spoiler—that the end of the fourth series saw Sully (Kane Robinson) ruin Dushane's (Ashley Walters) retirement plans by assassinating his successor Jamie (Michael Ward).
The rousing trailer opens with a melancholic montage of Top Boy's main players, Sully and Dushane among them, before scenes of weapons being loaded bleed into public protests erupting.
