The premise of the Sky Max show is that the police are "spectacularly incompetent", the outfits are "fabulous" and the music is "banging".
The 1980s "sound like a great time to be a criminal" – especially in the world of "A Town Called Malice", said Vicky Jessop in the London Evening Standard. The premise of the Sky Max show is that the police are "spectacularly incompetent", the outfits are "fabulous" and the music is "banging". And at the "first whiff of the law", you can "scarper off to Spain to avoid extradition entirely". This cocktail of crime thriller and family saga follows the Lords – a family of south London gangsters who've fallen to the bottom of the criminal food chain – and they're not happy about it.