TV interview: Joe Penhall, the writer and star of new series Moses Jones, talks to Metro
Gritty: Matt Smith (left) and Shaun Parkes are antidotes to stereotypical TV cops in Moses Jones
Joe Penhall cracks a huge grin when I mention that the street hustle energy of his new TV detective series, Moses Jones, puts me in mind of movie legend Shaft.
‘That’s great. That’s what we were going for,’ he says before throwing Robert Altman, The Chinese Detective and Colin MacInnes, of Absolute Beginners fame, into the mix. As TV cop dramas go, Moses Jones won’t fail for lack of ambition.
But where Shaft prowled the mean streets of Harlem, Moses Jones is on a beat altogether closer to home: the seething underbelly of London’s Ugandan community, a world of crime, clubs and struggle that pulses to the beat of the best soundtrack you’ll hear on TV this year….Read more at Metro.co.uk