Peaky Blinders

[Blackthorn]

http://www.indiewire.com/article/te...murphys-bbc-crime-drama-peaky-blinders-for-us

Looks like it is still up in the ati for the US.

Thanks Ed.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

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First teaser for series two.

 

[Edward]

Caught this on DVD a couple of months ago, and now really looking forward to series two.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Facebook Peaky Blinders said new shows in October.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

[video=youtube_share;Rde7qsxUCNY]http://youtu.be/Rde7qsxUCNY[/video]

 

[Two Types]

The new series started tonight.

It's odd: I enjoy watching it but, at the same time, it really annoys me. In episode 1 there's a London nightclub scene that irritated me, it was too over the top and the fight scene was just ridiculous.

 

[simonc]

Each to their own, I liked the establishing shot of the club scene, suddenly energy into something quite slow moving.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Will watch it tomorrow at lunch.

 

[herringbonekid]

i watched the first episode tonight, and will probably watch the whole new series as i like the overall aesthetic of it, but i'm so fed up of the whole brooding male violence thing.

(yes i get it by now: you want to muscle in on someone else's territory and things will turn violent soon. and someone will get beaten to a pulp. do script writers think men did anything else in the 20s except be gangsters ? do script writers have any other ideas about how to write 'drama' without it involving the omnipresent threat of violence ?)

i realise i'm in the minority on this. i mentioned similar misgivings about Boardwalk Empire and it was met with silence.

give me Harold Lloyd any day.

 

[Metatron]

I agree. Well, I think the same every time a well trodden theme is revisited instead of something neglected and forgotten.
do these series project some kind of male pining for primitive territorial ape faeces throwing while stuck, alienated in a sanitized dystopia?

 

[herringbonekid]

I agree.

i'm glad someone agrees.

i don't think the series will be celebrated in years to come for it's dramatic writing.
for it's art direction and evocation of a folklore working class Edwardian hellhole... possibly.

 

[Two Types]

And the notion that three out of town gangsters could walk into a nightclub operated by, and filled with, members of a London gang and their associates, take them on and win the fight is just ridiculous. Annoyingly laughable. In the 1920s a nightclub with people openly having sex and taking cocaine would have had rather strict door controls - I doubt the Shelby family would have got past the doormen.

But it looks good.

HBK: I too get frustrated by portrayals of males in period drama. How many more times do we have to see men portrayed in a negative light. Where are all the good men? The normal men who work hard, don't beat their wife and are tolerant of all races, creeds and colours. To see the way men are portrayed in British period drama, you'd think they weren't massively influential in dragging the country forward through the middle part of the 20th century.

One final moan. The gypsy mysticism angle really grates on me.

But I'll keep watching it.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Not a fan of the caps should get Johnny J to make a good one. The front of the caps are all wrong.

 

[herringbonekid]

Not a fan of the caps should get Johnny J to make a good one. The front of the caps are all wrong.

i noticed that too, but forgot to mention it.

British Edwardian caps were often very wide and far from droopy. they also commonly have the two-piece (circular edge seam)
construction rather than the eight-panel. more like this:

 

[Two Types]

I had wondered about the eight piece caps. Maybe they are just the acceptable look for a villain.

If I remember correctly, when the first series was shown there were photos in the press of young criminals of the period. They were wearing the smaller cap, without drape, but the photos had been taken in about 1905.

 

[herringbonekid]

If I remember correctly, when the first series was shown there were photos in the press of young criminals of the period. They were wearing the smaller cap, without drape, but the photos had been taken in about 1905.

yes, that photo is on page 1 of this thread. i don't mean to imply that ALL caps would have been really wide in 1918. there would have been a variety of sizes available. but a few wide ones might have been nice to include. the droopiness bothers me more than the width (as the actress said...).

 

[Two Types]

I knew I'd seen them somewhere!!!!

 

[simonc]

The show is called "Peaky Blinders" and is based on the real life and times of a Brummie gang called the Peaky Blinders (having razors in their cap peaks to slash and blind their enemy with) written by their great grandson, who owns the rights to the show. I guess all the elements you detest are sadly going to be in there. But bear in mind who and what this is about. "All creatures great and small" this is not. Aside from that I think the lighting is well done, the colour grading is of interest to me. The art direction 6/10. The use of Nick Caves track is sloppy. But for me the greatest sign is that international viewers are taking interest in the show and perhaps we can roll out a few more quality dramas particularly with the locations at our fingertips, the skill and talent of crews at Pinewood and Shepparton studios largely sitting on their hands. I would HBO a **** tonne of period series. But right now I'm looking at 1920's raincoats. Moving on.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Yes I think netflix is always looking for new content. The BBC should do a few more period pieces.

 

[herringbonekid]

nice outfit from episode 2: