Tom Beasley bids farewell to This Is England with a review of the final, feature-length episode of This Is England ’90, which looks set to be the end of the decade-old franchise… It’s finally happened. After the best part of a decade on our screens – whether big or small – Shane Meadows has finally […]

Tom Beasley reviews the penultimate episode of This Is England ’90, which has now fully embraced the dark heart of its creator… Misery is arguably the staple ingredient of Shane Meadows’ sprawling This Is England universe. It’s what drives these characters into the compelling drama that has allowed them to maintain such a potent presence […]

Tom Beasley reviews the second episode of This Is England ’90, in which the hazy delirium of a party in a field mingles with the oncoming storm of a figure from the gang’s past… As entertaining as last week’s premiere episode of This Is England ’90 was, it was tough to get away from the […]

Tom Beasley reviews the first episode of Shane Meadows’ latest, and possibly final, return to the This Is England universe… From the moment we’re tossed back into the world of This Is England ’90, it’s as if we’ve never been away. Shane Meadows’ captures the milieu of working class Britain and the lives of his […]