Peaky Blinders (TV)

[Fnaar]

Interesting piece on the fact and fiction of the Peaky Blinders on the History Girls Blog earlier this week:

http://the-history-girls.blogspot.nl/2016/05/peaky-blinders-fact-or-fiction-by.html

Yes, interesting how the writer has used /built fiction round real characters. There are other sources on t'web (e.g.:http://footprintsoflondon.com/2014/11/the-real-london-of-peaky-blinders/ ) which give Sabini as the inspiration for Colleone in Graham Greene's Brighton Rock.

 

[John the Monkey]

If anyone's not wanting to dive straight into S3 without watching the others first, S1 & S2 are on Netflix at the moment.

 

[Fnaar]

I have a flat cap somewhere. Might tie a bic razor to it later.

 

[KEEF]

I like the music so there

 

[John the Monkey]

I like the music so there

I like some of it - could use a bit more dubstep though.

 

[Fnaar]

I've read a book about the slum tenements of Dublin, and it mentions razor blades in caps were used by the Animal gangs of Dublin, so would be surprised if it wasn't practised or known in England....

My dad used to tell me about them. He grew up just near the Four Courts.

 

[Fnaar]

my Da and his family all come from the liberties and he remembers the last of the animal gangs and a very interesting character, a policeman called lugs branigan.....

I heard so much about Bang Bang from Inchicore, I felt I knew him personally.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Returning to the series, I'm finding that the characters are developing far more slowly than the violence. It doesn't feel like it's going anywhere to me.

 

[Stephenite]

[QUOTE 4268409, member: 45"]If Brum did the Manc thing of pretending that nearby places were theirs just to boost their egos, the Black Country is indeed Greater Birmingham.

Brummies don't need to do that though. We just are.[/QUOTE]

 

[Stephenite]

nothing to do with middle class lovvies, its a fact they lived and came from the some of the poorest places and brought opportunties and in some cases wealth but for the majority they saw them as people not afraid to take on the establishment, government, police, whomever ....scumbags yes but their scumbags and proud of that fact....

You live in a Fing dream world @iris . Violent gangs are part of the oppression, they do not make you free.

 

[AndyRM]

This is all getting a wee bit heavy for a thread about a TV show isn't it?

Not looking to stifle the debate or anything, but as I see it Peaky Blinders glamorises gang violence in the same way Trainspotting did heroin ie: not at all.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Returning to the series, I'm finding that the characters are developing far more slowly than the violence. It doesn't feel like it's going anywhere to me.

^^^^ +1

Watched the first two series and really enjoyed them.

Had recorded parts 1 & 2 of S3 and watched them back to back last night.

It felt tired and same old same old. No fundamental shift in the series plotline and the character development has gone nowhere fast.

Disappointed as I've been looking forward to this new series for some time.

 

[Fnaar]

[QUOTE 4281359, member: 45"]I'm not seeing that. I'm seeing Arthur struggling more and in a different way, especially now he's married. There's more references to the gypsy in the family. Polly's son has settled in and is very different to how he was when he's turned up, and the (real) brothers are starting to rise in the pecking order which I think is going to come out as more friction in the family.[/QUOTE]
I'm enjoying it, but finding it a bit hard to accept that Grace, accomplished spy/undercover operative etc wanted all along just to be a good wifey-wifey and mummy-wummy.