In order to prevent any further misdiagnosis of future tv series could you please explain wholly the difference. I can see you have time on your hands today and that it is my turn to be on the receiving end of one of your regular punctilious dissensions. No rush, I will check back later.
The puff for the first series mentioned it was based on a real life gang of thugs called ...... "The Peaky Blinders " that existed in Birmingham, yes, just after the first World War. So it started with a small degree of factual accuracy, admittedly that has been left far behind now. Anything...
Only in PB'S can one man be threatened with a gun in 1920's Britain 3 times a week and not get shot. Usual mix of thumping music, thumping fights and digitally re-mumbled dialogue with some extreme violence thrown in. I wonder what the Americans would make of it ?
Not sure if I will bother, at my age my hearing can't decipher the weird Brummie Mumblers. Add to that it is turning in to a caricature of The Goodies- Ecky Thump.
I missed a couple of weeks episodes but its fairly simple to keep up with. Surprised it took so long for Grace to get planted.
My only grumble is that fact that a lot of the dialogue is so mumbled it is indecipherable to the extent that I had to put the subtitles on. The machine gun, I am sure...
After 2 episodes of the “ gritty “ docu-drama the series is drifting in to familiar territory. Our anti-hero Tommy Shelby, effective leader of the Peaky Blinders has started his softening up procedure. Although tough as nails he has shown the worrying signs of being romantically attracted to...