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Calibre movie rotten tomatoes11/10/2023 Said to be named after the practice of stitching razor blades into trademark flat caps (which they would then use to slash the foreheads of their victims, thus blinding them with blood), the TV show’s plot interweaves real life characters – a young Winston Churchill pops up occasionally – with fictionalised elements. The whole series is loosely based on a real criminal gang known as the Peaky Blinders, who rose to prominence in Birmingham during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. If you were thinking, “ Peaky Blinders is a strange name for serious crime drama”, that’s because it’s taken from real life. There are few places on the small screen where you’ll find actors of this calibre sparkling off one another. Sam Neill, Helen McCrory, and Noah Taylor have all starred Paddy Considine joined the latest series as villainous priest Father Hughes Tom Hardy borrows his Ronnie Kray accent to play Jewish gang leader Alfie Solomons while Cillian Murphy, as gang leader Tommy Shelby, arguably gives the defining performance of his career to date. It stars some of the finest actors working todayįor a midweek BBC Two television show, Peaky Blinders has a cast list more likely to be found on a film poster. With season 3 debuting to more gushing praise, Peaky Blinders can comfortably count itself among the golden age of television, alongside the likes of The Wire, Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos. The consensus is there: all three of its seasons have debuted to rave reviews – one critic called it “the most intelligent, stylish and engrossing BBC drama in ages” – with the show as a whole currently sitting at 86 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. There are few better reasons to watch a show than “because it’s good”. There are countless reasons why you should be watching – but here’s ten. Essentially a Brummie Boardwalk Empire, Steven Knight’s acclaimed period crime drama is one of gangsters and guns, family rivalries and flat caps, buzz cuts and black country accents. Are you watching Peaky Blinders? Television’s worst-kept secret concludes another blinding season this week.
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