I’m two episodes in & liking it.
It’s kind of like Martin Scorsese meets Masterpiece Theatre.
I just started in on it, and am liking it so far. I think I would like it better with period music rather than the anachronistic soundtrack, but that’s a minor thing. The outdoor settings are very meticulous but seem a bit over the top. I’ll probably watch the whole season this weekend.
The wife and I watched some of it. We were pretty impressed with the attention to detail of the costuming and sets (not that we are at all knowledgeable, but it looked good to us).
But for some reason, the story just never grabbed us. For me, it felt like there wasn’t enough to really connect any of the scenes together (and I’m usually pretty tolerant of that kind of storytelling), and eventually this created a sense of boredom that just grew as we got into the third and fourth episodes.
Someone else may well have a very different experience and get hooked on the show, as it was definitely one of those things where the show just managed to miss appealing to my tastes by a little bit, but that little bit soon felt like a mile.
is it like Copper? Which is on Netflix right now and I can’t wait for the next season to become available available
We’re two episodes in. I’m slightly positive/lukewarm on it - we’re enjoying it enough but I don’t feel like we’re watching anything new, you know?
Maybe it’s partly because something about Cillian Murphy’s face skeeves me out.
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Just got done w Season One, can anyone explain exactly how the Shlebya were trying to screw over Mr Kimber? And how did they end up owning a racetrack?
We want to watch it, but for some reason, the video and audio don’t sync on our TV and we really don’t want to watch it via laptop. Is there some sort of setting on Netflix or our TV (it’s an LG) we need to check?
For the record, we had the same problem with an episode of Orange is the New Black - fine on computer, not on TV.
Sorry to hijack.
I had this problem watching Weeds except it was my laptop that was giving me a headache.
Well, good to know it’s not just me, then. But still weird.
They don’t own a racetrack, they just have control of on-track bookmaking. The plan had been for the Blinders and the Lee family of gyspies to take said prize from Kimber and his gang by force at the racetrack. As it was, Kimber and his boys found out and tried to gain the initiative by confronting the Shelbys at home. That didn’t turn out so well - and while Kimber’s ‘soldiers’ were in Smallheath, the Lees had no resistance to their seizure of betting pitches and licenses.
Season two is worth a watch, if you liked the first. I saw them all when they aired on BBC, and recently watched them all again after the current Jill O’W saw the first one and was hooked by the impeccable period costumes and the gleefully anachronistic soundtrack.
I’m still giddily excited by one of the lines of dialogue in the final scene of the final episode of season 2:
“Get out of the grave, tinker!” I can’t imagine anyone’s written or spoken that particular arrangement of words before.
Mrs. Intergalactic Gladiator and I just started watching it and are 4 episodes in. We’re liking it though she doesn’t like the theme and is compelled to tell me how much she hates Nick Cave when she hears it.
Just finished watching Boardwalk Empire and I’m giving myself some distance from prohibition-era gangster shows at the moment. But this looks worth watching, and I’ll probably get around to it eventually. Anybody know how Peaky Blinders compares to Boardwalk Empire (which actually was Scorsese production)?
Netflix has a Marco Polo show I’ve been eyeballing too. I’m really glad they produce their own content now because their streaming movie selection is crap.
Darker and grittier, which is partially a thematic decision and partially just the fact that it’s in industrial Birmingham rather than ritzy Atlantic City. Effects of the war on people is further forward as a theme–every single one of the Shelby men were in the war and are affected by it; to the extent certain other characters weren’t, it’s a major plot point. In general, it feels a bit more intimate–the Shelbys are very much a family, and it’s not like anyone has any official power in the way Nucky Thompson did. Oh, and obviously there’s no Prohibition.
In general, I’d recommend it to fans of BE.
If she perseveres to season 2 she’ll get to hear a range of other artists…covering the same Nick Cave song 
Binge watched it all the past few nights. Really enjoyed it. Sorry it’s over.
I’ve not seen BE but you have nailed the key points of PB. That it occurs among a class of men who were sent to a war that brutalised them on behalf of an establishment that continues to treat them as disposable sub-people is fundamental. And it wasn’t only the Shelby men who were impacted by the war - it doesn’t labour the point, but we know that Aunt Polly ran the business while they were away and sister Ada’s response to the previous four years is at the core of her character.
The aesthetics of the show celebrate dirt and industrial fire and the sweat of the labourer, of the class of men who built the canals that are the arteries of the growing empire. It’s not a Breaking Bad, but it’s quality television with high production values and (so far) fresh scripting. It may yet go on too long, but at least it’s unlikely to suffer a substandard remake for the US.
I thought the final episode of Season 2 was a great edge-of-your seat finale. Did not see that coming and well acted in the aftermath by Cillian Murphy. I felt he could have reacted the same way in the war when things got deadly…
Will be interesting to see if Sam O’Neill survives another season…(if there is one, hopefully!).
Season 3 is pencilled in for early 2016 
Yeah! Thanks!