Top Boy, the British crime drama about two Black drug dealers living in a housing project in East London, is one of Netflix’s biggest hits. Its creator, Ronan Bennett, was inspired to write the show after seeing a young child dealing drugs in the parking garage of his local supermarket in the Hackney neighborhood of London. The show was dropped in 2013, after just two seasons. But it was resuscitated a few years later by Drake, the Canadian musician and producer who is a fan of grime, a genre of British rap music from the early aughts. He lobbied Netflix to recommission it. Bennett may be a white man writing about Black experience, but accusations of cultural appropriation have been rare: Top Boy is widely embraced by the Black community. Bennett’s great skill is to make alien landscapes relatable while creating a forensic exploration of how communities, particularly marginalized ones, stick together. —Christa D’Souza