The works of Shane Meadows, the pride of England’s Midlands, trend toward both the neorealist and the brutal, whether in the cinema or on television. Cruelty often collides with social portraiture and cultural critique, forcefully yanking back the curtain to show audiences the root cause of ills ranging from petty crime to gang activity to nationalism to actual violence. But there’s a case to make that his latest project, “The Virtues,” a four-chapter limited series streaming on Topic, is both the harshest and most tender enterprise he’s undertaken to date.

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There’s just so much content coming to streaming platforms and TV screens nowadays that it’s basically impossible to keep up. And while the incredible amount of content definitely includes some real stinkers, there are truly some diamonds in the rough that deserve your attention, such as the upcoming limited series, “The Virtues.”

And with “The Virtues” arriving on the Topic streaming service this week, we are thrilled to offer our readers an exclusive clip from the hard-hitting drama.

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Shane Meadows is a filmmaker that hasn’t fully broken through with general audiences outside his native England, but he should be known by most film fans, at this point. He’s probably best known for his incredible film “This is England,” and it’s subsequent TV series sequels. But with his next TV project, he’s tackling a new story, and it looks like Meadows hasn’t missed a beat.

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“The Virtues” is a drama that follows a guy who returns to his family and hometown with hardly any memories of who he is and what he did before.

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