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THIS IS ENGLAND ’90

WORDS CARRIE LYELL

Look out your tie-die t-shirt and get your rave on because the wait is finally over. Following on from the brilliant This Is England ’88, renowned filmmaker Shane Meadows picks up the action in the summer of 1990 for this brand-new four-part series. We join the gang for whizz-snorting shenanigans in fields, forests and factories with fun-loving fatties, bowl hairdos and baggy jeans as Woody, Lol and friends find themselves adapting to a new decade, and a new way of life.

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