This Is England '90 recap – episode one, Spring

We rejoin Lol, Milky, Woody and the rest of Shane Meadows’s gang as Mrs Thatcher vacates No 10 and Madchester fever kicks inThere’s a lot of love out there for these characters. It’s partly because they feel so familiar – Shane Meadows captures the tone and temper of done-down but defiant provincial English life unerringly. It’s partly thanks to This Is England’s uncanny sense of balance – there are amazingly few dramas that so convincingly combine warmt