Freezeframe

Boyle revives some of the stylistic tics which found themselves being ripped off by geezer-gangster Britflicks back in the day, but now the freezeframes are briefer, sharper; the movie itself refers back to the original with variant flashback versions of famous scenes, but also Super 8-type images of the boys’ poignant boyhood in primary school.

The show rewards culturally savvy fans with elite "in-jokes," not to mention textual messages that can only be seen by freezeframing individual scenes on a VCR.