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Imagine bringing Belly into current times and add in elements of UK culture and UK Grime Music, the combination of that is Amazon Prime Videos Jungle. It's a six episode mini-series where there's several narratives of characters in London where the first three episodes focus on a character named Gogo (played by actor, Ezra Elliott) and his relationship with a loose canon character by the name of Slim (played by UK Rapper, RA). From a robbery which then leads to a chain of severals events and a conclusion and then the remaining three episodes switch us to a young man named Marcus (played by UK rapper Poundz) and his life being an older brother to his younger bro where they are living with their mother strung out on drugs. Marcus (no spoilers) has an event that occured where eventually karma catches up to him. What you may notice or may not notice is Prime Video's Jungle is almost a who's who of the UK Grime rap scene with different UK rappers and R&B singers such as IAMDDB, Big Narstie, Amaria BB, J Fado, K Koke & more playing diffrent roles in the episodes.
With such an array of UK music artists there's a musical movie element to Jungle where dialog is made up of UK Rap and R&B songs. And it's not in a Grease style type of way, sorry no disrespect to John Travolta. And like this movie called Crash, we have several characters where they are all in the same city and I don't want to spoil the movie but you will find the characters are connected in more ways than one. The setting is unique and reminiscent of Belly from the neon lighting and cinematography. It's in modern time but from seeing different imagery such as holograms and holographic technology, you would feel like the series is set in the future. It's definitely well worth checking out on a weekend day and evening when you're looking for something to binge watch.
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