Behind the walls of a British prison, two men on opposite sides of the bars are pushed toward the same reckoning with guilt.
What is Time (Shigan) about?
A newly incarcerated man is trying to survive his first stretch inside, uncertain how to read the unwritten rules that govern who gets protected and who gets targeted. Watching him, and increasingly drawn into his situation, is an officer carrying his own private debt to someone he wronged years earlier. Their paths cross under the ordinary pressures of prison routine, where small decisions about loyalty and silence carry outsized consequences. Rather than building toward a single dramatic turn, the series stays close to the daily texture of confinement, favoring quiet, unhurried scenes over incident. Its four-part structure lets both men's stories breathe at their own pace, tracking how each tries, in different ways, to make some amends before time runs out on the chance to do so.
About the cast
Stephen Graham and Sean Bean anchor the two central performances, with Hannah Walters, James Nelson-Joyce, Nabil Elouahabi, Natalie Gavin, Nadine Marshall, and Sue Johnston filling out the surrounding cast of inmates, officers, and family members. The ensemble carries much of the series' weight through restraint, letting silences and small gestures do work that dialogue is deliberately kept away from.
Context & significance
Written and directed for British television, the series arrived in 2021 as part of a wave of prison dramas that trade sensational plotting for procedural detail and emotional interiority. Its short episode count keeps the focus narrow, following the daily grind of institutional life rather than escalating toward escape or violence for its own sake. The country-of-origin setting gives the series a specifically British prison bureaucracy and class texture, distinct from the American prison-drama tradition that K-Time viewers may know better, and that specificity is part of what critics singled out about the show on its original release.
Watching Time (Shigan) on Ktime
K-Time streams the series with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can choose whichever format suits them. All that watching requires is logging into a free K-Time account, and the platform's Farsi-language interface is designed to make finding titles like this one straightforward for Persian-speaking audiences.