It’s only been a few months since the final series of ‘Top Boy’ graced our screens and left us with possibly one of the most annoying endings to a TV show ever, but Kano/Kane Robinson is already back with a another Netflix project set in his old stomping grounds  – ‘The Kitchen’.

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‘The Kitchen’ might be set in London like ‘Top Boy’ but it’s there that the similarities end as the series takes place in a near future cyberpunk dystopian version of the capital city where holographic displays are all over the place and biker gangs roam the street like it’s ‘Mad Max’ or whatever. The gap between the rich and poor has been stretched to its breaking points and the titular Kitchen is the poorest section of the city where Kano’s fate becomes intertwined with that of an orphaned 12 year old boy. Original.

Take a look at the trailer below:

All forms of social housing have been eradicated and only The Kitchen remains. A community that refuses to move out of the place they call home. This is where we meet a solitary Izi, living here by necessity and desperately trying to find a way out, and a 12-year-old Benji, who has lost his mother and is searching for a family. We follow our unlikely pair as they struggle to forge a relationship in a system that is stacked against them.

Yeah I gotta admit that I thought ‘The Kitchen’ would look a lot better than it ended up being in that trailer from the description. The sets just look sort of tacky and cheap and it could be anywhere in the world really if it wasn’t for the London accents and it doesn’t really seem like it’s offering anything new in the way of a plot either does it? How many times have we seen some cool loner take a young orphan under their wing now? ‘The Last Of Us’ was only a year ago wasn’t it? Come on guys.

Anyway, will probably still check it out come January 19th though. Gonna be too cold and dystopian to go outside isn’t it?

For more of the same, check out this thread that describes how New York City has turned into a dystopian novel. It’s right there in front of us most of the time.