Peaky Blinders is a cunt of a series, isn’t it?
Typical Al Beeb money-saving, budget tv: same grimy road shots, same fire blasting out of the same furnace, same pub and canal angles, shoestring bollocks. However, they didn’t spend the saved cash on writers.
In Peaky “Fookin” Blinders’ first couple of series it was daft: Sam Neill was a charmless Northern Irish policeman (Al Beeb not sympathetic to Narrthern Oireland); Winston Churchill wandering about, being corrupt, paying off people (Al Beeb never sympathetic to Winnie); Benjamin Zephaniah as a Rasta poet …erm, frequent in 1919 Birmingham (Al Beeb not sympathetic to historical truth).
Cillian Murphy is a boring actor. Lots of slow-motion shots of his Holocaust cheek-bones looking like Skeletor-in-a-flatcap while Auntie Polly acts like she’s the matriarch from Scouse comedy ‘Bread’.
Then it went ludicrous: Tom Hardy as a hammy, swaggering Jewish butcher; a token pretty millionairess who falls for the Skeletor bad guy; a lovely camp of gýppos, charming but poor, strong pîkey values, but moral and Zzzz….
Now it has a bigger Netflix budget for liberalism: Oswald Moseley storylines, Britain bad, foreigners good, etc. The writer even talks about, “the rise of nationalism, populism, fascism, racism blah blah – a huge sweep across the world… And you look at the world now.
Maybe, not such a great idea.” Zzzz.
Let’s not even begin to talk about the wonky accents..it’d be like sticking a pin in a map of the British Isles.
It’s had some decent bits, but has succumbed to the inevitable finger-wagging, moralising horse-shit. Thank goodness Al Beeb is there to correct our thoughts. From silly enjoyable drama to crippling mediocrity.
Peaky “PC” Blinders.
Nominated by Captain Magnanimous
I havent really seen much of it. I generally cant be arsed with fiction these days.
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Who in their right minds makes a series about fucking Birmingham?? I mean, they are nothing but a shower of moaning cunts, to begin with!! Arthur ‘By order of the Peaky fookin’ Blinders’ Shelby does nothing but walk around with a Whiskey bottle, and battering kids to death! And they’re all fucking Gypo’s!! And why are all the woman stick thin, with no tits?? Last time I was in that area, the women were all fat, ginger cunts with massive udders, FFS! Big tits, but they fucking stunk!!
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