Top Boy Season 5 Release Date, Cast, Storyline, Trailer Release, and Everything You Need to Know:
Top Boy has always been a little muddled, but whether you count four seasons of the original or the two seasons of the Netflix continuation, the plot is about to wrap up any way.
And by golly, they want to have a fantastic send-off season. So, where do our protagonists and antagonists go from here? What exactly are their intentions? When can we expect to see it?
It’s been more than a year since the release of Top Boy the fourth season (or series 2, as Netflix renamed it), and now just one more season stands between us and the series’ inevitable conclusion.
Netflix has published the initial teaser for the last season, and the streaming service has also provided an estimate for when viewers may say goodbye to Dushane and company.
Top Boy Season 5 Release Date:
As of April 2024, here is still no concrete information on when the last episode of Top Boy will be made available to the public. That time, though, is getting closer this year.
Top Boy’s fifth & final season will debut on Netflix in September, the streaming service said. It was originally speculated that creative differences were to blame for the postponement of the last episode.
For the record, Netflix cleared the air at the time in an interview with Metro, explaining that “Producers Cowboy Movies, Easter Partisan, & Netflix temporarily paused filming on the last season of Top Boy to enable an additional creative discussion.”
Top Boy Season 5 Trailer Release:
Yes, the initial teaser video was published in April 2023, and it included a heartbroken Sully saying, “If they are not demons, we’re feed… and I will never be food.”
Top Boy Season 5 Cast:
If Top Boy were to return, the following actors/actresses would likely return:
- Sully (Ashley Walters)
- Dushane (Dushane Kane Robinson)
- Shelley Saffron Hocking as Lauryn Jasmine
- Jobson as Jaq Simbi Ajikawo (‘Little Simz,’) as Jaq
Top Boy Season 5 Storyline:
One thing is certain, though: someone is going to light up. There was much too much treachery last season for their to be no fallout.
It’s possible that Sully’s recent actions have further strained relations between himself and Dushane. Dushane’s plan was to retire when he handed control of the drug operation over to Jamie. We shouldn’t expect Dushane to take Sully’s decision to scrap that strategy lying down.
Unless, of course, he’s on his back, immobilized by the panic attacks that plagued him during Season 4. In the future, Dushane may have to deal with a new challenge: maintaining his mental health.
Regarding vengeance, it was instructive to see the lengthy gaze shared between Sully or Jamie’s younger brother Stef. During that time, Stef’s astonishment and disbelief were replaced by sadness, shame, and maybe resolve on Sully’s side. It’s not out of the question that Aaron (Jamie’s other brother) and Stef (a schoolboy) would want to settle that score.
What Aaron does since he is the primary earner and legal guardian of Stef will be fascinating to see. Will he drop out of school and live on the margins like Jamie did? The fifth season will reveal everything.
Lauryn, sister of Jaq, may need to guard her back for the same reason as Jamie’s brothers do. You may believe that when she kills her cruel, controlling ex-boyfriend Curtis (Howard Charles), she is safe.
Not a chance; Vee, his older sister, makes Curtis seem like a lapdog. Despite being a psychotic lapdog, still. There is no possible world in which she would not seek revenge for the killing of her brother.
Hocking told Digital Spy, “I believe that what she endures would test anyone,” in reference to her character’s ordeals during Season 4. For me as an actress, the most remarkable thing about playing this character is that she never quits up. She does keep going even if, as you say, she is on the verge of exhaustion.
The resilience of a mom or an expecting mother is on full display. Mothers would give their lives for their kids, right? In addition, she acts in this way. That’s a lovely thing to be capable channel, in my opinion.
‘I simply thought about my own mom, who loves me,’ she said. And I really like her. She is totally committed to me. “OK, I’m going to channel that here,” I told myself.
Hocking was asked whether she felt Lauryn would be capable to move on from what happened in season 4, and her response was:
I find that question quite challenging. While I wasn’t in her shoes, I assume that someone who has endured what she has would do everything to find some kind of hope for the future.
My protagonist is obviously pregnant. I’d like to think, and hope, that Lauryn will find some measure of pleasure in the arrival of her kid and the realization of everything she’s worked for to get here. Who can say for sure, though?
We do not have a crystal ball, but unless Lauryn resolves her issues with murderous Vee, we suspect her happily ever after will be delayed. I’m crossing my fingers that she still has some gas in the tank. Shelley, Dushane’s girlfriend, may have more than one hidden secret waiting to be revealed.
For the time being, she has been able to hide her ex-boyfriend’s murder by burying the corpse. But if her blackmailer, the victim’s ex-girlfriend, reveals the truth the following season, it may be disastrous for her.
With just Jamie left in charge of Summerhouse Estate, anything might happen in this last season. No more Jamie.
Dushane contemplated starting again at the end of Season 4, but Walters says it’s not that simple. He told Digital Spy exclusively in an interview:
Leaving the streets isn’t what he wants, in my opinion. I imply that I played it to that in thoughts, that he’s speaking it, and in a perfect world, it’d be fantastic, but I believe he’s someone who has been so steeped in that lifestyle, or has earned the kind of money that he possesses, or has had the power that he has.”
Furthermore, he said, “It’s all about that control today. It’s not about acquiring a lot of stuff. He gets his energy from being in charge, and I believe that’s just how he is wired. That makes it difficult for him to just abandon the whole thing.
