Man Like Mobeen returned to our screens this week and things are certainly not going to plan for Mobeen, his sister, Aks and two pals, Nate and Eight.

Mobeen is trying his best to break away from the gangster lifestyle but it seems the harder he tries the more he gets sucked into other people’s problems.

Faced with almost impossible odds he soon realises that things are very much black and white when it comes to making choices for the safety of his friends and family.

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Man Like Mobeen (BBC Three)

In season three things have gotten a lot more desperate and the story evolves into something more sinister. A lot more brazen and at times the series could be mistaken for a 90s British gangster classic.

There is a lot more at stake but writers Guz Khan and Andy Milligan still manage to highlight some of the social issues many inner citieswe have come to expect judging. From foodbanks to gun crime, we are left in no doubt what some communities are dealing with.

The series follows on from the cliff hanger which saw Mobeen struggling to hold back after his friends get assaulted.

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Man Like Mobeen (BBC Three)

So, he ends up ‘babysitting’ Nav (Nikesh Patel) the nephew of the underground don ‘Uncle Khan’ played by the wonderful Art Malik. Malik is something of a rarity amongst British actors as he is able to play both the high society aristocrat and the traditional Punjabi gundah (baddie), complete with the authentic desi dialect with equal aplomb.

It was also good to see more of Uncle Shady (played by Mark Silcox) a character that is in a complete world of his own and he has some of the best moments.

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Man Like Mobeen (BBC Three)

Tez Ilyas’s ‘Eight’ seems to have a gotten meaner (and a lot more doltish), whilst Nate (Tolu Ogunmefun) continues to have mini meltdowns of epic proportions.

A highlight is episode four which sees Mobeen spend the whole time handcuffed to Officer Harper and the two soon realise they have a lot more in common than they first thought.

Man Like Mobeen continues to be the most likely comedy of recent times to garner audiences from grassroots Asian backgrounds - and that in modern day Britain is not easy.

Five episodes instead of the customary four and again the series ends with some unanswered questions.

Man Like Mobeen Series 3 is available on the BBC iplayer now