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In the Long Run (2018)

In the Long Run poster
Genre
comedy
Country
United Kingdom
Length
3 seasons, 19 episodes
Rated
12
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 14 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Sierra Leonean family living in 1980s East London navigates everyday life. The show follows the Easmon parents and their teenage son as they deal with neighbors, work, and growing up in a new country.

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What happens

In the Long Run is a British comedy-drama television series created by Idris Elba which premiered on Sky One on 29 March 2018. Loosely based on Elba’s childhood, the show is set in the 1980s on the gritty, fictitious Eastbridge Estate in East London. The series follows the Easmon family; Walter (Elba), his wife Agnes (Madeline Appiah) and their 13-year-old British-born son Kobna (Sammy Kamara) who have settled in England after having arrived from Sierra Leone. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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