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Question about Peaky Blinders
Posted on 12/27/23 at 6:20 pm
Posted on 12/27/23 at 6:20 pm
I’ve been curious about starting to watch Peaky Blinders, I just have a question. My favorite show of all time is the Sopranos. How similar is Peaky Blinders to Sopranos, and another show I really enjoyed, Boardwalk Empire? Is Peaky the British version of a gangster series like the aforementioned two?
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Posted on 12/27/23 at 6:40 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Peaky Blinders is a crime drama centred on a family of mixed Irish Traveller and Romani origins based in Birmingham, England, starting in 1919, several months after the end of the First World War. It centres on the Peaky Blinders street gang and their ambitious, cunning crime boss Tommy Shelby.
Great series, give it a watch. Turn on the closed captioning.
Great series, give it a watch. Turn on the closed captioning.
Posted on 12/27/23 at 6:54 pm to SaintlyTiger88
It’s one of the best shows ever made imo. Thomas Shelby is a very rare type of main character acted absolutely brilliantly by the guy from Oppenheimer. I wouldn’t compare it to those two because of that and how much of the show really hinges on him.
The final season is a bit of a letdown but it’s still good it’s just not as good as what came before. You should 100% watch it.
The final season is a bit of a letdown but it’s still good it’s just not as good as what came before. You should 100% watch it.
This post was edited on 12/27/23 at 6:56 pm
Posted on 12/27/23 at 6:59 pm to SaintlyTiger88
You will love it once you start to understand them start with CC on
Posted on 12/27/23 at 7:12 pm to WPBTiger
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Great series, give it a watch. Turn on the closed captioning.
All of this.
Posted on 12/27/23 at 7:16 pm to WPBTiger
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Turn on the closed captioning.
I did not do this, and turned it off after a couple episodes.
Posted on 12/27/23 at 7:20 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I'd give it a watch. I'd be surprised if you don't enjoy it.
Posted on 12/27/23 at 7:57 pm to SaintlyTiger88
We watched the first episode like 3 times over 3 weeks and didn't understand it. Turned on CC and it instantly started to make sense
Posted on 12/27/23 at 8:04 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I love The Sopranos and still watch episodes from it. I stopped watching Peaky Blinders probably about halfway through. It wasn’t because it wasn’t good because it was fantastic. I had a long wait to watch again and had forgotten enough I felt like I needed to start over. It’s on my list to watch again. I can’t speak to the entirety of the show but from what I’ve seen so far I’d put it close to The Sopranos and above Boardwalk Empire in quality. Thomas Shelby is an incredible character/incredibly acted and the other actors support him nicely.
Posted on 12/27/23 at 8:17 pm to Swoozie
Peak Blinders almost lost me with that season of him sulking the whole damn time. They lose their way a bit
Posted on 12/27/23 at 8:52 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Did not at all like the last season, but besides that, it is up there as one of the best shows I've ever seen.
May Carleton GOAT
May Carleton GOAT
This post was edited on 12/27/23 at 8:54 pm
Posted on 12/27/23 at 9:56 pm to SaintlyTiger88
If you like Sopranos and BE, you’ll like Peaky Blinders.
I just finished it for a second time last week.
Also a good show to binge now. 36 episodes over the course of a decade was a bitch. First time around I’d watch the season the day it was released and basically forget about it for two years.
Agree with everyone about closed captioning.
I just finished it for a second time last week.
Also a good show to binge now. 36 episodes over the course of a decade was a bitch. First time around I’d watch the season the day it was released and basically forget about it for two years.
Agree with everyone about closed captioning.
Posted on 12/27/23 at 11:42 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Peaky Blinders is amazing. Some of the best television I’ve ever seen. The last season is spectacular, in my opinion. It broke out of the older formula from previous seasons and became really psychological.
Cilian Murphy is incredible as Thomas Shelby. The show is criminally underrated.
But yes, watch with captions on. You’ll get used to it.
Cilian Murphy is incredible as Thomas Shelby. The show is criminally underrated.
But yes, watch with captions on. You’ll get used to it.
Posted on 12/28/23 at 8:57 am to deeprig9
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Turn on the closed captioning.
I did not do this, and turned it off after a couple episodes
I did not do this, and thoroughly enjoyed the entire series
Posted on 12/28/23 at 9:26 am to WPBTiger
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Great series, give it a watch. Turn on the closed captioning.
Also based on real gang Wikipedia-Peaky Blinders
Interesting trivia..Tom Hardy is married to Charlotte Riley in real life.
I've actually watched it 2x because I enjoyed it so much.
This post was edited on 12/28/23 at 9:28 am
Posted on 12/28/23 at 10:32 am to SportsGuyNOLA
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I did not do this, and thoroughly enjoyed the entire series
Same until Alfie shows up. Can’t understand a word he says without CC.
Posted on 12/28/23 at 10:35 am to SaintlyTiger88
It is similar to Sopranos in that it revolves around an antihero crime boss who you really should not like, but you root for him anyway.
Posted on 12/28/23 at 10:50 am to Locoguan0
Posted on 12/29/23 at 9:48 pm to A Menace to Sobriety
2nd this, Peaky Blinders was awesome.
The limey gypsy godfather as a multi-season series.
The limey gypsy godfather as a multi-season series.
Posted on 12/30/23 at 8:07 pm to SaintlyTiger88
If you liked the Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire, you will like Peaky Blinders. I'm on my 3rd watch now.
As good as Cillian Murphy (Thomas Shelby) is in this Tom Hardy (as Alfie Solomons) is my favorite character in the show.
Pay close attention to every scene he is in. He absolutely kills it.
As good as Cillian Murphy (Thomas Shelby) is in this Tom Hardy (as Alfie Solomons) is my favorite character in the show.
Pay close attention to every scene he is in. He absolutely kills it.
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