In addition to the fact that the third season is no longer brilliant script, as well as caste (take the same Tom Hardy once again played here a Jew - what a game)... there are also all known stereotypes about Russians used, not even stereotypes, and speculation and stories scripted. No one has ever done that before.
This season is not worth a ruble. Here everything is too grotesque and unreal. complete nonsense, both from the side of logic and even from the side of the movie script, but at the same time surprisingly watchable. What's the secret?
The secret is that different heroes are again put in various situations: someone gets a wife and a child for the first time, someone loses something dear, someone becomes almost an aristocrat, penetrating from the slums into high society. In the meantime, they think about the Russians again. If earlier it was purely incomprehensible in the film communism, more precisely only communists (not of Russian origin) with incomprehensible plot goals. Then in this part of the narrative, the Russians finally had goals: they were divided conditionally into white and red... echoes of the civil war and refugees, former aristocrats of the Russian Empire appeared, rich and poor, most likely even with Jewish roots. Well, modern English cinema, in principle, cannot be without rich Russians: there are not many of them there even today - part of their lives, part of their history. Putting the Russians out of the story is like throwing a piece of English history in the trash.
If you throw out the above part of the unimaginable plot, then in the rest it is interesting to look at how the image of England is changing, although we see it a little completely: new factories, some giant structures in the background, plus we were first shown old castles, estates, more precisely, more modern cars.
Plus in the film more and more echoes of the otherworldly and something almost Sodom.
I came across this series on the advice of my friend, who assured me that this is a great work. After seeing a lot of positive feedback, I still decided to spend 3 days of my time.
Water
Water and again water, each series is just a transfusion from empty to empty. Each episode lasts almost an hour, of which 30 minutes are meaningful dialogues. I’m not saying that there are two seasons in one confrontation. Speaking of confrontations
Plot
The first seasons were enticing, during the series of 2 seasons created a feeling that the opponents are worth each other, respectively, you imbue these characters. In my opinion, it was possible to finish the show at Campbell, because then the hell started. From season to season, the same set “A villain has appeared, you must kill” is repeated and all 6 seasons are repeated one and the same, again after another. It's just not interesting to watch. Although I watched all the seasons, but worth watching only the first 4 (and then season 4 with a stretch). Believe me, season 5 and 6 is just a mess, do not get there.
Female characters and lovelines
What a sura, women are pushed around by gangsters who take over countries. It doesn’t seem plausible at all, especially at that time. And I wish women were well-registered, but no, they're just bitches who like to manage. Of all the female figures, only Paulie was cute because she has character. Love lines are also brilliant, during the season the main characters can get married 3 times, what is it?! It’s as far-fetched as possible, and from the words ‘We have a very progressive company’ and further actions, I fell out altogether. Once again, I am not a misogynist, objectively female characters were spelled wretched and period.
Immortal heroes
Every season there was some kind of danger, and every time you knew no one was going to die because Shelby was a genius. Man, the heroes are just deliberately pulled into the dumbest possible. They could not be removed by the police, they survived the attack of the Italian mafia and they survived even after the American gangsters. All 'death' is fiction, simply because the actors left the set, as a result, died either behind the scenes or crazy. They always got away with it and thought that in Season 6 they would finally run into serious people, but no. Once again, the “genius” Thomas thought everything out for 5 years ahead.
The series Peaky Blinders 2013-2022 6 seasons, a unique series, in its kind, for the first time tells us the story of gypsy gangs of the 20s of the middle of the XX century in the UK in the city of Birmingham. This city is one of the leading industrial and criminal cities located in the vicinity of London.
The British series, like many of its kind, has its own style and manner of presentation. The series Peaky Blinders once again proved that the British TV series Black Mirror and Sherlock Holmes and others can be no worse and even bypass many American TV series on many points.
The protagonist Thomas Shelby (Cillian Murphy), who survived the First World War, understands the value of life. Having built his empire, he struggles to prevent war between various criminal groups and wants peace for himself and his clan ("family"). Thomas Shelby is someone who has no limits on his ambitions and raises his stakes to achieve his goals. Despite the desire to alleviate his suffering, accompanied by constant thoughts of his own death, he is forced to go to his goals with tears in his eyes.
Actor Killian Murphy played his role simply amazing, he is so well accustomed to the image of the main character that there is a feeling – the role played is his own life, while overshadowing all the other roles of the series, except Tom Hardy (Alfie Solomon) – the leader of the gang.
The ending of the series is logical – Thomas Shelby says goodbye to his criminal past, atonement for his past sins.
"You're so damn close."
All the main characters: Tony Soprano, Enoch Thomspson, Thomas Shelby, the above three series are united not only by their position and social status, but also by a similar view of life and how to act to achieve certain success.
All these characters became such because they were created by their environment, but the foundation was laid personal unique traits of the characters of each hero.
These three series are definitely recommended for viewing, although the subject may not like everyone. But personally, I really enjoyed watching.
I won’t talk much about the story. 20s, England, Birmingham. The Peaky Blinders gang is turning from a small-town gang into a serious clan that, in the end, I think, will control the shadow business throughout the country (otherwise, what was it even for?). In short, “The Godfather” (or “Once Upon a Time in America”, choose to taste), only not in the USA, but in the UK.
Beautiful actors - every single one, and old, and young, and stars (Sam Neal, Cillian Murphy, in the second season added to them Tom Hardy), and lesser rank, and occasionally flashy, and permanent characters. Great collection of types. Cops, criminals, clan heads, secret agents, the minister (Sir Winston himself), bookmakers, horse owners, communists (one of them is the son-in-law of the head of the Clan "Blinders"), the IRA, the Italian mafia, the Jewish mafia, the gypsy mafia - in general, everything is as it should, tightly twisted and looks with interest. But that's not the point. Such series abound - and retro "Underground Empire", and modern "The Sopranos", and noir "City of gangsters", and the glamour "Magic City", and the domestic "Brigade", and the Italian "Sprut", finally - everyone takes something of their own. What makes the squirrels unique?
From the beginning to the end, there is great music. The soundtrack consists of songs by Nick Cave, Tom Waits, The White Stripes, The Raconteurs – and it’s the perfect music for what’s happening on screen. The Peaky Blinders' Birmingham is the very place that Waits and Cave mutter and moan about throughout their career. This is a place where life is worthless, and that is why everyone is willing to sell it here as much as possible. Before dinner, after, or even instead of it, the local men prefer to fight, and then get drunk and find a girlfriend for the night. Contracts are fixed with a handshake with a spit, and violation of the word entails slaughter.
The second thing I really like is the understatement. The conciseness of the screen narrative. In each season there are only 6 episodes, so there is no time to settle, telling everything in detail. Many things happen behind the screen, some of them the viewer learns after the fact, as already accomplished, and some reaches his mind, analyzing the results obtained.
It is difficult to determine the genre unequivocally - except for the gangster saga, this is a melodrama, and a war novel (many of the clan are soldiers who came from the First World War), and there is a secret service here (the work of an undercover agent in a gang), and about returning to the family (a child given to another family for upbringing, after fifteen years finds his way home), and more about much, and this much is painted as succinctly, juic, short episodes... Anyway, look, I don't think you'll regret it.
So ended without exaggeration, the legendary series - "Sharp Blinders" It’s time to take stock, find out which season was the best, whether the final was successful and what is there with the continuation.
The first, second and third seasons were almost perfect, corresponded to their genre, were able to impress and gradually introduced us to the business of the Shelby family, introduced the characters, and did not bother much about the plot, no, he was certainly, but did not strain, but on the contrary, with the help of a chicly transmitted atmosphere immersed us in an increasingly dark, mysterious and gloomy criminal world of the early 30s, rainy London and the hostility of numerous gangs, among which were Peaky Blinders.
But the fourth season changed the way we think about the crime genre, at least for me, because I was really excited about the fourth season, the best villain, the best story, the best ending, the best character disclosure, the visuals, what is the dialogue between Luca Changrett and Alfie Solomons, the chemistry between these characters has so far not been eclipsed. Well, the fourth one is not as boring as the previous seasons of the series, and the previous ones really did not seem particularly dynamic to me, although the rest seem to be on the contrary, I will say they were really boring in places, despite the fact that at that time the emphasis was more on entertainment, and not on drama as near the end.
But the fifth season raised a higher stakes, the war against fascism, a serious antagonist in the face of the real personality of Oswald Mosley, the death of beloved characters and the promising finale of the sixth series, all this made the fifth season almost the most important in the series.
Nevertheless, he was not as depressed as the sixth and still maintained his rhythm, and the concern for the main characters made him even more tense, because in previous seasons it was worth worrying only for the villains, in the same (as in the sixth) they make it clear that the Blinders are far from all-powerful, as they seem at first glance. Perhaps the best moment for me was the return of Alfie Solomons, because their dialogue with Tommy is like a separate art form.
The sixth season, the final season, was perhaps the most serious and dramatic in the series, the last season of “Sharp caps” is the saddest that I have watched this year, sad in a good way, it’s a real drama, although what we see in the sixth season is not what we saw in the first, but I think it’s even better, the sixth season is deeper than the others and much more insightful.
The depressing atmosphere further immerses in the story of Thomas Shelby, new characters, unexpected twists and visually stunning scenes. As I said, in the end, the plot increasingly focuses on the main character, because to observe in fact more and no one else, Arthur in the end smoked and drank, the original lineup of visors was occupied by younger faces, who are not as interesting to watch as old men, and they are not shown at all, everything is focused on Tommy, not even on his criminal cases, before which he is by the way already on the hair dryer, but on his personal, family problems, this is not that bad, rather even good, specifically in the framework of the sixth season.
But the final episode, as I expected, shot and raised the bar again. I would have recognized the last episode as one of the best in the series, and maybe the best, if not for the last episode of the fourth season. Visually, the sixth episode is just a pure high, the visors are back in the topic, a lot of shootings, unexpected deaths, inimitable dialogues and, without exaggeration, a worthy finale.
The fifth and sixth season gave us very interesting and charismatic characters, such as Bill’s Boys, Uncle Jack and the character of Stephen Graham, who according to rumors could be Al Capone himself, but the creator of the series has already managed to refute this rumor. The downside is that the series, having not had time to complete the storyline of the recently appeared characters, already introduces new ones, the storyline of which also does not complete, this is despite the fact that the series is already officially over, except for the continuation in the form of spin-offs and a movie. I’m not talking about Bill’s Boys, because logically it was their main character who was supposed to be the antagonist of the sixth season, because Oswald Mosley actually died in old age, although this does not mean that he can not be defeated. The topic with a traitor in the ranks of sharp visors was also poorly disclosed, and there were more questions than answers, take even the fact that in the sixth season there is a mystic, I don’t know whether this is good or bad, but given the mood of the last season, all these mystical flashbacks and Tommy’s conduct, very well fit into the overall picture.
By the way, I was pleased that they did not forget about the “gray man with green eyes”, I think this storyline was completed perfectly. And the farewell to Polly was touching, and she was mentioned for most of the season, because her murder greatly influenced the plot. It is sad to know that the actress who played her is no longer alive.
I also want to note that the sixth season has a very cool soundtrack, on which the equally cool composer Tom York worked. Speaking of music, it is worth remembering all seasons of Peaky Blinders, because the whole series is saturated with chic musical accompaniment, take only the title theme at the beginning of each series.
What happens next?
Basically, Thomas Shelby’s personal life has been sorted out in the last season, so I think the film sequel has to be epic, clear and impressive. For the Shelby clan made a lot of enemies to get even with, especially since we were promised to lead the Shelby family through two wars, ending World War II. But the events of the Second World War will rather be superimposed by the plot of spin-offs, which in turn will be about young receivers of Peaky Blinders, well, at least I assume so.
Rating of all seasons of Peaky Blinders in my opinion:
Season 1 - 7/10.
Season 2 - 8.5/10.
Season 3 - 8.5/10.
Season 4 - 10/10.
Season 5 - 9/10.
Season 6 - 9.8/10.
I recommend Lostfilm or Cube in Cuba
If in general, the series is a bloody masterpiece, one game of actors is worth it, so it deserves 10/10.
"Winter was cold"
The second favorite series in a row leaves a bad aftertaste. First, “Stranger Things” in season 4 brought to yawning, and now the “Blinders” distinguished themselves.
I’ve been a fan of the series since its release. But what happens in season 6 is almost impossible to connect with the right sharp visors. In the same wrapper we received a surrogate.
What did you do with the last season?
- Dynamic. Everything moved, there were constant surprises in the plot, the development of events kept in suspense.
- Interesting team. Polly. Brothers. Their environment. It was a gangster series where they owned all the space.
- The height of heroes. The gradual transition from mud to princes was interesting to track.
- Inner empathy. Yes, they are not angels, but they try to live right, they have a human eye, they fight even worse bastards.
What's in Season 6?
- No dynamism or excitement. Almost the whole season is Tommy's dialogue with his wife, suffering, experiences, reflection. In reality, the whole season is set in a decadent gray color. Problems, failures, illness, death, deception, etc. Everything falls into negativity. Those guys who go, minting life, and are ready to twist the world into a ram's horn, not even near.
- No team. It turned out that Tommy without brothers and Polly is of little interest. There's too much of it. Yes, Arthur shows up, but it's some kind of constant slug between the opium-addicted slug and the savage idiot. I was disgusted by the murder of a bookmaker, it will not justify any plot need. I was confronted by an aggressive idiot whose respect I would never regain. And if you remember that Tommy himself is very concerned about the sale of opium for $ 5 million, it turns out that they are not heroes at all, even partially. And you can feel it.
- No height, no height. The suffering of millionaires in luxury apartments. That's all. After all, you could ruin them again somehow or something to return some intrigue. Make them energetic, thirsty again. Bring back what made the series famous. Not that. Everything is static and dull, yawning calm.
- I don’t have any inner compassion anymore. Arthur disgusts me, Tommy is annoyed with his reflection and constant problems, his wife irritates with ingratitude and adaptability (yesterday's prostitute behaves like a sea mistress), etc.
Summary: a drama about the life of aristocrats with mass suffering and rare elements of action. No way at all. Compared to the reference first seasons - a maximum of 3-4 out of 10.
P.S. And I'm also really, really, really freaking out about Michael's wife. This is the first time I’ve ever seen this film. I could not like the characters of some films, but to seriously annoy, on a worldly level - no. She looks like she's just torturing me. I don’t know, maybe it’s some kind of personal reaction, not yet meaningful, but it’s very unpleasant that it’s even in the series (I couldn’t even watch The Queen’s Walk when I realized that the lead role is the same actress). . .
I came to Peaky Blinders from behind YouTube shorts. I watched the first season and it was awesome. I don't even know where to start. Firstly, it is the level of the frame is amazing as stylish, and secondly, this is a series with the top acting game from superstars, thirdly, it is the best scenery and camera work that I saw.
Plot. The series follows a gang of English Gypsies named Shelby. They're bookies by profession. The main characters of the series Tommy Shelby. He has two brothers, Arthur and John. And their coolest Aunt Polly. And the whole series they trade all sorts of cool crime. For example, they crush all other bookmakers under their office, rob Russians, work for the government, etc. Every season, Tommy is looking for an opponent he is trying to beat. He is always weaker than the enemy and this is a great thing for the hero. .
It is worth talking about GG here. The series reflects such a complex thing as war. Tommy, Arthur and John are the heroes of the First World War, the consequences of which haunt them as they breathe. Tommy became resolute, cold, partially mentally ill. The series deals with many complex social themes of the time. For example, the life of post-war generations, class inequality, racism, chauvinism and other national discord, feminism. Plus, it reflects a huge number of historical events, for example, the beginning of the great American depression. Even the post-revolutionary life of the Russian nobility.
Acting. I'm going to talk about the people who came to me the most. Tom Hardy as Alfie Solomons is the man of the century. A humorous, frostbitten Jew who either jokes or kills. This is one of the coolest images of the whole world cinema. Cillian Murphy for the role of Thomas Shelby should receive an Oscar. His facial expressions in the series have already been disassembled by all YouTube psychologists, but you need to be able to act out so convincingly.
Music. Do I Wanna Know breaks my heart every time I hear it on the show. All the music there is just fire.
It's the style of the show. Birmingham is a very dirty city and full of workers. And you see the real dirt. Heroes always smoke and do it very stylishly. Yes, even the phrase “Winter was cold” has a lot of meaning, style and aesthetics.
Over. Just watch this series and you won’t stop for a minute.
What can I say about the final season?!
The plot is too watery, stretched, smeared on a plate chocolate dessert, which as you try not to get into you with great difficulty!
The lion’s part of the plot is absorbed by politics, which is not always interesting and understandable to the viewer. Boring, dry monologues that try to draw you into the essence of what is happening, but leave much to be desired.
The season is reminiscent of a game in which the main character Thomas Shelby is forced to perform quests by type (to go where it is not clear where, find family offenders, return, complete the quest, and take a new one, kill family offenders, return, complete the quest), at the moment when you just need to be near the family.
Exhausted like soda, the plot, worn to holes, extended for 6 seasons, is depressing and ceases to be unique. Season 6 reminds me of a wounded horse begging to be spared. And only the second half of Episode 6 keeps in suspense from the last forces, sets the tone, mood and the very atmosphere that was so lacking throughout the season.
Summing up, we can say that the last season resembles not “Sharpened KEKS”, but “Grandmas Bereta”, from which the dust is sometimes shaken off.
Despite the preserved atmosphere, excellent musical range, good acting, and diversity in the shooting, this season does not turn the language!
The open ending and the imaginary continuation of the plot leave behind a feeling of understatement and interfere with the full perception of the picture!
Peaky Blinders have no doubt become a cult series of the 2010s. The Shelby family, 1920s England and the story of beautiful and stylish men solving serious problems in the pursuit of money and life satisfaction, resonated in the minds and hearts of many people. Especially, in Russia, Peaky Blinders have gained some incredible popularity among young people and teenagers, the romanticization of gang life is apparently very close to our mentality.
The main and most obvious advantage of the series is style. Each episode literally oozes the style from each frame, the feeling that the stage directors and operators spend hours checking every action and every object of scenery. In Peaky Blinders, it is quite common when you can stick like Killian Murphy somewhere in the office, hotel, bar, smoke a cigarette and reflect on family problems. And the scene can go 5-6 minutes and with long pauses. And this, perhaps, for many will seem a minus, because, I confess honestly, Peaky Blinders are very difficult to watch with concentration. For some series, it happens that there is no action, and each scene of the conversation is stretched and unnecessarily heavy, and some are frankly boring. But this is what creates the special atmosphere that Peaky Blinders have and that their fans love so much. Can the series be blamed for its peculiarity? For that zest in which he has no equal?
The second obvious plus is the actors. No, can there be any doubt? If the talent of Cillian Murphy does not cause any doubt, so many words of praise have already been said about him, so many reviews have been written that even a viewer who is not familiar with the series and has never heard anything about it will have no doubt who the main star is here. There's nothing to say about Cillian Murphy, he's beautiful. The discovery for me was Paul Anderson, who played Arthur Shelby. Due to his charisma and darn powerful charm, he often produces performances even worse than Cillian Murphy. Although, to be honest, there are actors of such a level that any of them can give something that you will not find now in almost any film, not that the series.
In short, this is what Peaky Blinders consist of: stylish and bright locations, the unsurpassed entourage of England in the 1920s and the strongest acting. Of course, the series is not without problems, there are periodically boring storylines, and some unrealistic of what is happening, and quite a lot of narration problems, but even despite this, the series from beginning to end looks whole and tries to keep the bar constantly.
Peaky visors are a reference series in its niche. Heavy, a little boring, sometimes boring, but so atmospheric ... and probably sincere.
8 out of 10
A series about strong women. The creators admit that the plot is not based on real events, but is their representation, fantasy. The influence of the modern information agenda is clearly seen, when authors are forced to create such a plot and heroes in order not to cause indignation of certain social groups, public condemnation of discrimination or even lawsuits and sanctions, not to become outcasts in the film industry, and sometimes specifically satisfy the needs of the current target audience for the sake of financial success. Particularly striking is the theme of feminism and the image of women in general. Guys, it’s the beginning of the 20th century, and we have a gangster theme here.
So we see war heroes who have gone through hell who are not afraid of anything else in their lives. These are people who killed other people. They have ingenuity, dexterity, strategy and tactics, willpower, fight well hand-to-hand, masterfully own cold weapons, have a sharp flair, lightning-fast reaction and shoot accurately. Further in peaceful life, they use their skills to conduct a criminal business, and the wave of violence and immorality does not fade, but flies with greater force and cruelty. Blood is pouring, bullets are flying, bombs are exploding and money is pouring in. What kind of person does one have to be psychologically to live in such a world?
Somehow, all these "cool guys" can't resist the weaker sex. Women enter their lives through intimacy and gain full power: take over the person and get into business. They raise their voices at men, swear, drink alcohol and smoke endlessly, stage provocations, ask inadmissible questions and demand an answer, criticize, manipulate, give instructions on how to conduct business, show more strong-willed qualities than the gangsters themselves. Psychologically, women are stronger than men. They have a say in the criminal business (whaaat?).
I remember saying, ‘We have a very progressive company.’ It looks like an agenda thrown by a director to a modern viewer.
In the end, for me, the series turned out to be a story about how strong women get everything they want and live in luxury and pleasure while boys play war in the sandbox.
1 out of 10
Org crime again. It's England now. The entourage is mature, but glamour is too much for me. There was a lack of human problems throughout the series. Since they started from the bottom, it was necessary to show those very bottoms more clearly. It's too much of a chamber. Otherwise, it is difficult to find fault, visually - the work is very good.
Stylish crime retroseries with a fleur of gloomy melancholy
As they say in such cases, the era is gone. But had it ended in the middle, after season three, the funeral would have been luxuriant.
“Through the bivalve doors of the smoked Garrison pub out onto the muddy, stuffy streets of Birmingham; the glow of fire from the factory pipes, down along the murmuring canals and further past horse fairs and gypsy kibbitkas...”
Twenty-five years ago, screenwriter and idea writer Stephen Knight conceived a plot about the working class that later became the basis of Peaky Blinders. When I thought about filming stories I heard as a child, I wanted to keep the legend alive: my parents, as children, lived these stories and knew their heroes in reality. I did not want the film to expose the horrors and hardships of life in Birmingham in the 1920s. I wanted to show people how amazing, dashing and lawless these years have been. So, inspired by real events and heroes, an amazing script was born, dealing with “the gloomy themes of war neurosis, communism, murder, political corruption and terrorism.”
You can long and reasonably scold the last three seasons, calling the plot exaggerated, the dynamics are weak, the dialogues are pathetic, the actions of the characters are fake. But the main thing from the Peaky Blinders cannot be taken away - the phenomenal world. Looking at any shot, you can physically feel the heady smells of smoky streets burning in the middle of the city of fire, comprehensive factory carbon monoxide, soaked in whiskey and tobacco earth. And everywhere there is this metallic fragrance of danger, mixed with primitive lust. England's cold beauty rhymes with the gypsy's inherent passion, expensive polished suits - with mud alleyways, vintage cars and noble horses - with the black houses of Birmingham. Everything is in contrast, as is the Shelby way.
Caryn Mandabach, the show’s executive producer, was confident early on that Knight would plant “a lot of acorns that will eventually grow into mighty oaks in our show.” It happened. Endowed with hyperbolic confidence and steadfastness, the absolute archetypes of the Shelby family strode over their heads for almost a decade until Knight announced that season six would be their last and instead of the planned seventh, a feature-length film would be made. We hope that Sergio Leone’s favorite reception by the directors of Peaky Blinders (an effect to escalate tension when the emphasis is not on the event itself, but on its expectation) in the film version will find a new life.
For whom?
For those who want to see the British answer to "The Underground Empire" and the hypnotic look of Killian Murphy.
I came across the news that the next season of Peaky Blinders is coming out very soon, and I have so far only reached the third, but this is already enough to add up my opinion about the series, which has formed the most positive.
First of all, I want to note that of course it was not without love lines. She, however, is very noticeable only in the main character - Thomas Shelby. And in the first season it was very striking, in the second everything was quite brutal as possible, but the third slightly lost ground. What awaits in the fourth is difficult to say. It might be useful, but I still expected a little more masculinity from this show. More fights, more alcohol, more promiscuous sex and dirty London. For some reason, this love line in my eyes hit Thomas hard as a very brutal independent man. And this is not about hating women, but about the plot in general, and about what is "soft," as his aunt put it. That's probably the case.
But if you omit this point, the series is beyond praise. It reminds me of how to get away with murder. The principle is the same: at the beginning of the season there is a problem, which in theory should lead to the inevitable death of the main character, in any case, so always count his antagonists. And during the season, we have the pleasure of watching Thomas solve the porridge he made. And he does it very virtuoso from season to season. Moreover, the further you move along the plot, the worse and worse the situations in which Shelby finds himself become. And every time I think, well, there's nowhere worse, and every time the writers continue to amaze with their ingenuity. And when in the first season I thought the situation was disgusting and Shelby wouldn't make it, every new season proved otherwise. A man is actually very smart, but a lot of relationships decide. There are no useless characters and passable characters in the series. If a new hero appeared and he was not involved in the current season, rest assured, will be involved in the next one, and in such a way that you yourself will be surprised.
That is why watching the development of the plot is not boring, because each season brings new problems and new ways to solve them.
The British series Peaky Blinders was a discovery for many young people who took the main character in the person of Thomas Shelby for his messiah, like Sanya Bely. Not only Russian Gopniks liked this series, but also ordinary viewers, who with the same briskness began to consider Tommy Shelby an example to follow and an example of a real man. So far, I myself have mastered only the first two seasons, to watch the next seasons I was pushed away by a magnificent upcoming branch about how the English Gopniks go to save the royal family, like the heroes of Russian books about the Popadians with the main characters in the form of Comrade Beria, Nicholas 2, Stalin, who periodically fall on the shelves of tabloid shelves. Nevertheless, the series has become like a reincarnation of the series "Brigade" for both our viewers and foreign.
This is a big-budget show that tells about the difficult life of gypsy bandits in British Birmingham. The brothers of the Shelby family, which the series tells about, have won on the fronts of the First World War and are trying to protect their growing business. If in other projects about bandits their actions could be justified, or, conversely, this model of social behavior was strongly condemned, this project went back. Before us are the real bandits, they steal, deceive people, arrange raider seizures of enterprises, and if this market at the time when the setting of the series was established, was not monopolized by the government itself, they would certainly trade opium. Such behavior is strongly approved by the show itself, the patronage of the English ghetto is romanticized in every possible way. The boys fought, gave their lives, and now they are simply beautifully go to success, cook business and make money.
The main character Thomas Shelby does not cause even the slightest sympathy, he is a completely negative character, a scumbag and a sociopath, but the series pushes the viewer to regret in every possible way, showing how he suffered and gave his life for the Motherland at the front. If the same Tony Soprano or his namesake Antonio Montana, although they were freaks, but were endowed with certain pronounced positive qualities, Tommy Shelby does not have such qualities, he is simply hypertrophiedly cool and can explain to any bandit for business and for life with a stone face. Is that what the viewer has to empathize with? Social intelligence? He's a womanizer, a tyrant, a social predator, and he's willing to throw people in a minefield for money, but look how cool he smokes, look how handsome Killian Murphy is! And we do not even go deep into his psychology, why he became so, just once in the war led by the road of adventure, and then he was metaphorically shot in the knee, and he became what he is.
Not only in terms of the message and meaning of the show suffers, the script does not shine with any originality, most of the show is the boring business of Birmingham gopniks, interrupted by the amorous adventures of Thomas Shelby and conflicts in his family. The bandits are not in opposition to each other, they are not different from each other, there is no dualism and antagonism between them, they differ only in the fact that some we know and follow, and others will die at the hands of Thomas or otherwise leave at the end of the season. Gopniks fight each other for some business points, attack each other, while you do not feel the danger for the main characters or some global threat to their business, it is just a parochial showdown of strangers who are absolutely uninteresting. It was interesting to watch the conflict between two gangster clans because the criminals were living people, each of the characters had an individuality and a grotesque character. The film wouldn’t be half as interesting if Mikhalkov complained to Duzhev and Panin that his business points were taken by the Boar’s group, and the picture consisted of Simon and Sergey running around and grabbing dots, crumpling the enemy group, like dummies from real-time strategy or bad open-world games tied to the capture of points and enterprises.
The author tried his best to make a good show, the action was shot at the highest level, all the actors worked hard, but instead of a serious show, he got a grotesque parody of crime films with all their stereotypes. Business, successful success, bratvas, enemy bandits are freaks, our bandits are handsome, who just go to success and protect the family, and the police are generally the offspring of hell. The authors of the show do nothing better than to cause empathy, not to prescribe their characters and characters, but simply to make their enemies many times worse than themselves. The main police antagonist of the first two seasons simply resented Thomas Shelby for taking away his woman, whom he did not even kiss. The image of the police as a whole is created as if all these creatures are just jealous of the successful success of Thomas and his boys, the only normal guys among the police officers are those who are on the payroll of the Blinders. Among them there are no ideological fighters for law and justice, each of them is a greedy careerist and a selfish scoundrel who has his own personal scores for the successful and cool Birmingham golden gypsy.
To describe characters and enemies in this way is a real nonsense and an indicator of mediocrity. In the NTV series and then more truth of life and reliable display of bandits. I’m not against fiction and I’m not going to judge movies for not being like life, but you can read about the real Peaky Blinders who actually acted in England as a street gang. Compared even to their story, on-screen Peaky Blinders look like a tabloid tale about romantic criminals. You can't make a crime movie like that, it's the wrong approach to making any movie at all, I've at least touched on other aspects of the series, like directing, acting, camera work, because compared to the idea, it's nothing. If the creators had no other idea than ‘war is bad’ and ‘boys are going to succeed’, they have nothing to do in the movies, they have nothing to say. Although the rating is good, but I expected much more, it is a pity that a fairly average series, so popular today, unconsciously promotes such destructive ideas.
7 out of 10
The format of the series is ideal for telling large-scale, complex multi-figure criminal epics, if their authors do not want to put the viewer to sleep in the cinema. So the idea of Peaky Blinders (2013-2022) seemed promising from the start.
The implementation did not disappoint - this is clear from the very first frame. The authors try not to “spread across the tree”, but immediately introduce key characters into the plot, dotting the conflict of a young gangster and his gang with a police official who decided to clean up the town of Birmingham.
But the standard criminal-police story is only a small part of a much larger plot, constantly developing its characters and introducing new bright heroes, deftly weaving local thugs into real historical events and reflecting the era of post-war England, which is here in fact a full-fledged hero with its own line of development.
The first two seasons are a classic story about the confrontation of an influential bandit and an equally influential security officer, adjusted for strong political seasoning in the second season, when a police inspector is suddenly promoted to major in the newly created legendary Secret Service.
Political squabbles with the militants of the IRA are replaced by undercover flirtations with the tsarist white emigrants and communists - in the foreground or in the background, but she is always in the frame.
Especially in the third, completely politicized and somewhat cranberry "Russian" season of the project, which just turned out to be the most boring and unsuccessful, even protracted. The third part of Peaky Blinders becomes a kind of test of the viewer's strength - if the third season can be sustained, the series will generously thank for it.
And will thank the best story for the entire existence of the project, the fourth season, which will not only unite in one frame a whole host of brilliant artists and the brightest images, but also show the viewer a magnificent gangster story about revenge, sometimes as if inspired by the immortal creativity of Coppola and Puzo. The darkest desk of the series draws the project to high praise and justifies the authors for the failed third.
The acting ensemble wants to highlight mainly at the expense of the first persons of Hollywood in key roles. Cillian Murphy, mostly languishing in minor roles, finally lit his star and played his best role - although his 'broad walk' Thomas Shelby at times seems simple as a toothpick and even sometimes lost against the background of more venerable lyceums, Murphy manages to include such drama as if he himself is experiencing PTSD or the loss of people close to him. His character is constantly in development, which the actor demonstrates. Let him play a hypertrophied tough bandit, who all the beautiful women of the series will be in bed, and at the hands of which all the villains will surely die, but he plays this classic and stilted character with British grace.
And he loses mainly to antagonists. Sam Neal, who plays a vile corrupt security officer, illustrates in detail the degradation and transition to the evil side of his previously honest and incorruptible character, without ousting the main character.
From the second season, the authors introduce the great Tom Hardy as the head of an ethnic Jewish crime gang, and this guy steals all the attention and sympathy of the audience in literally every episode where he appears. A very textured and charismatic actor, Hardy does not play his best role here, but accumulates in the image of Alfie Solomon all the brightest features of his most memorable characters, from the twin bandits from Legend to Bane from The Dark Knight. Although his closest to Solomon is the villain from “Survivor”, for which the actor was nominated for an Oscar. What at least his distraught look is worth, and the actor has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to play with one eye.
Another honored artist, incredibly decorated the project - Oscar-winner Adrian Brody, who for the first time in his career played a negative character. His Luca Changretta, the leader of a mafia clan from Chicago, surpasses the protagonist in all respects. Cynical humor, stylish appearance, arrogance and justified self-confidence, composure and cruelty - all these qualities endowed his hero Brody, turning him from a criminal authority into something inevitable, like death itself. Obviously, when creating the image, Brody was inspired by the young Vito Carleone performed by Robert De Niro in The Godfather 2, and his hero really took a lot from the main mafia of cinema - it is worth at least listening to the tone, timbre of voice and manner of conversation Luca in the original. The appearance of the dashing villain is memorable - in contrast to the shaggy bear-like Hardy and stylish intellectual Murphy, Brody's character is covered with gloomy tattoos, wears rings and dresses in typical mafia "three" costumes, and looks even more authoritative and "precious" of his opponents. Definitely, he is one of Brody's best roles and a great find for the project. Had Adrian been born with his expressive big Italian nose earlier, he might have found a place in the Coppola trilogy. But thanks to him, the fourth season becomes the most colorful - it is always interesting to watch the conflict between two strong personalities, let its finale be obvious.
The rest of the actors do not demonstrate anything supernatural, but they cope with the minimum task. The late Helen Macrory in one of the central roles plays her character with ecstasy and love, especially laying out in dramatic moments, which her Polly will fall a lot. And in general, the actress is very pleased with her performance, but when fifty-year-old Polly begins to grow young and build a kind of “chicken” out of herself, there is rejection and negativity from the pretentiousness and vulgarity of this heroine at the moment. The same can be said about Paul Anderson - his hero he plays great, and in the drama scenes does not sag, but sometimes his hero, in his forties, turns into a formal jerk of adolescence, which does not fit with an adult man who has authority in the criminal world. Joe Cole has a big future in store for him if he doesn't yell "we're bloody sharp visors!" Well, Annabel Wallis, Sam Claflin and Aidan Gillen pleased with familiar faces in the frame.
The scrupulous reflection of the era on the screen with all its attributes, with first-class recreated and literally revived on the screen locations of England of the troubled beginning of the XX century, the stylish appearance of the heroes (the costume designer here is a true creator) - all goes to the benefit of the created entourage, adding a tape of realism, and even the modern rock soundtrack sounds organic, incendiary and drive, supporting the audience interest and especially decorating the spectacular, albeit standard gangster action.
The camera work of the project deserves praise - the picture is incredibly pleasing to the eye with a juicy visual, resembling a full-fledged revived painting, although the miracles of Dickens and Matheson are still far away here.
There is still the sixth season of the project, it is unlikely that the creators will be able to spoil their titanic work. They are moving in the right direction.
8 out of 10
The dialogue between Hardy and Brody, a conversational duel full of humor and artistry, is the best episode of the series.
The epic of the heyday of the growing clan of Birmingham bandit Tom Shelby from the origins of his dashing 20s of the last century. For me, the movie certainly did not eclipse another series about another time, but already thundered in 2013, with a similar theme, the Underground Empire, but survived and it seems that it may even be a full format. Simple, but rich, cruel crime drama with again not brilliant, but well-chosen cast and places bright characters. Personally, I was somewhat embarrassed by the constant slowo when showing the exits of the family, but you can try to get used to it. The music in the series is great.
Season 1. Here we are introduced to the Shelby clan and its cunning, cruel and calculating leader Tom. The plot revolves around gangsters and mixes it all up - political unrest that occurs on the one hand because of the IRA, on the other because of the Communist parties, and also the close attention of the government. Of course there is a love line. And not alone. Bandits also want warmth and affection. Sometimes.
Season 2. A couple of years pass and the friendly English bandos decide to expand and launch their not very long arms to London. Their friendship with the Jewish mafia, their feud with the Italian mafia, and they're still in the crosshairs of Campbell's old foe. The level of intrigue is increasing. And then there are the IRA and the Communists. Shelby is still on the hook with Churchill, who is trying to get him to do the dirty work.
Season 3. The influence and wealth of the Shelby family is growing by leaps and bounds. There are even some schemes of profitable legal business. Next Level. Naturally, new murky faces and deeds appear. Now the Russian eccentric but dangerous monarchists are also taking on Tom, who are trying to use the criminal capabilities of the family for their imperial goals in the fight against communism. At the same time, in the season, the image of charismatic Aunt Polly began to be used, even with a feminist bias. In general, everything becomes even more dangerous and dramatic. Even more tragic than that. Tom really falls just an avalanche of difficulties and misfortunes. And in the family itself there is growing tension. Horror in general. It's really amazing how these Shelbys are constantly trying to bend and how all these marginalized communities disrespect each other. Apparently against Shelby plays their blonde image and in general not very distant relatives. Who's to suggest that Tom himself is such a genius of intrigue? The season finale is very emotional.
Season 4. It all starts mega-dramatically, after the mega-dramatic finale of Season 3. At the same time, the business of the clan as a whole began to go even better. But now that Tom has a lot of legal business, there's a problem with the unions in the factories. Of course, the old demons are not going away either. They're just getting bigger. This time, the main enemies are the powerful Sicilian mafia, driven by blood revenge. The series became plot simpler and more direct. There are no bright political intrigues. But there's a lot of grinding between the Shelby family members and digging into the heroes themselves. Sometimes literally. But the action with the American-Sicilians turned out not bad. Slowo wasn't the truth either. It's a brand-name thing. Well, it's nothing new. Except they switched from racing to boxing. In general, the series passed a little. But the last series is very full of events and twists. They made a good brew.
Season 5. It's been 10 years in the series universe. The Shelby family has expanded, grown trembled and launched its tentacles even to America, where the cunning Michael operates. But now, on top of everything else, Tommy's politics are mixed up. And in the series there was a star Anya Taylor-Joy and a little shone Warrior Andrew Koji. The seed of the season was the Wall Street stock market crash in 1929, which naturally caused huge damage to the legal Peaky Blinders business. This season, however, the tangle of political intrigues is also twisting. It's not like the family. Besides, Tom's screen is starting to go worse than before. The grounds seem to be there. The kingdom is bursting at the seams, and falling from the throne will be very painful. And the IRA, communists, fascists and all the evil dogs and wolves, according to whose laws the Shelby family lives, among which the main devils are the Protestant bandits and the political shark Oswald Mosley (real person is the founder of the British Union of Fascists). The phrase “strategy development” sounds annoying often. There will be some very unexpected and tragic turns in the final. And Thomas may find an invincible opponent. It's hard to guess who it is. Tom has a legion of enemies. The intensity of passion will be maximum.
Season 6, of course, I'll be waiting. I suppose it will be the last.
"Sharp Blinders" - a few words from an avid moviegoer.
"Sharp Blinders" - a few words from an avid moviegoer.
Cinema as an art form in each individual work should reflect the basic laws of genre drama. At the same time, those who create a movie, constantly need something to surprise an increasingly sophisticated viewer. Especially in our time, where young people, as experts say, perceive the world in the format of not even clip thinking, but microclip thinking, with the possibility of qualitative concentration of attention no more than 30 seconds.
In historical or even pseudo-historical cinema, it has become extremely difficult to bring all the success factors together such as: reliability, dynamics of the narrative and, most importantly, the constant empathy of the audience, their complete immersion in the next cinematic universe.
The screenwriter of Peaky Blinders Stephen Knight, coming up with a story about the criminalization of the Roma (or Gypsy-English) Shelby family in post-war England, risked a lot. He transferred the “gangster subculture of sharp visors” from the late 19th to the early 20th century, gave possession of its “brand” to a single family, endowing key characters with high intelligence, skills of operational thinking, strategic planning and indomitable will before the blows of fate.
Moreover, he, certainly inspired by the Godfather, gave all the older Shelby brothers biographies of Michael Corleone, war heroes, knights of the orders of the British Empire. And, of course, all the main characters in their own way are in constant search of life meanings, despite the difficult criminal everyday life, periodically burdened by their way of life, looking for ways to legalize their business and, in addition to external enemies, fighting with internal enemies and trying to deal with the ghosts of their past.
There are a lot of risks and stereotypes. Although Knight himself in official interviews denied accusations of distorting historical reality and that he filmed the British version of the Godfather. He is confident in his correctness asserting that the “visors” did not disappear anywhere in the late 19th century, but continued their activities under the leadership of Thomas Sheldon, who became the prototype of the main character. He also argues that the exemplary appearance of the “visors” (snow-white collars polished to the shine of shoes) is a consequence of ingrained army habits. In general, he insists on the existence of prototypes of his heroes until the outbreak of World War II. According to him, this is the story of the time era between the two world wars, which ends in 1940 with the first siren, which reads about the beginning of the bombing of Britain.
He explains his motivation for making the film by his dedication to his grandfather, who, according to him, was part of the community of sharp visors and the memories of his father, who as a boy witnessed one of their meetings. All the participants of this “production meeting” were impeccably dressed in accordance with the established “Kozyrkov” canons, and in the center of the room was a table littered to the top with cash.
As a result, Knight created the script exaggerating the dramatic twists and turns of the plot with a point of record in the enthusiastic childhood memories of his father, struck by the “coolness” of these people. Then the effect of children’s imagination worked, which gave them the skills and qualities of superheroes, which of course is very far from reality. According to the concept of the same Knight, we partly watch the film through the eyes and vivid images of this ten-year-old boy, reinforced by everything necessary and, of course, the high professionalism of the entire film crew.
By the way, almost no advertising campaign of the series was not, as in his interview says the lead actor Tom Shelby-Kylian Murphy. Advertising agents were ordinary viewers, spreading opinions through the Internet and so on.
But nevertheless, the series was successful and moreover became a cult. From the first minutes while the credits go, the film begins to fascinate with its atmosphere, impeccable play of the actors of the main and secondary roles. Murphy, of course, managed to form an iconic character due to the quality of the script, which provided space for the use of his acting resource.
In the huge cold eyes of his hero, we see the rebirth of a person who has seen death in war many times. After a hellish military meat grinder, he has new concepts about empathy and survival in peaceful life. War for him and his brothers continues in peace. There is no need to look for enemies here. The priority is the well-being of the family by any means. In his performance, Thomas Shelby becomes a man who breaks the social stereotypes of conservative England, shackled by age-old class traditions. Knight does not hide that Thomas Shelby will become Sir Thomas Shelby, a knight with the title of Lord.
According to all the laws of the genre, in every season there will be insurmountable obstacles in the face of the colorful characters of Charlie Creed, Sam Claflin, Adrian Brody, Brian Glisson, Noah Taylor, who have become antagonists in this criminal saga.
All the performances of "very bad guys" versus less bad are beyond praise. The format of the series generally extended the screen life of secondary characters, giving them the opportunity to play their actors full professional implementation. What is worth watching Adrian Brody once again proved his colossal acting range by transforming into an envoy of the Italian “Black Hand” who arrived in Birmingham to wipe off the face of the earth all representatives of the Shelby clan.
Separately, it is necessary to say about the acting works of Tom Hardy and Sam Neal, which greatly enhanced the quality of the dramaturgy of the film as a whole. Dialogues with the participation of their characters are literally chained to the screen, spurring their less famous partners to organic match in the frame.
Women's acting roles are also very well implemented. They gave the story the necessary balance, and at the same time once again refuted the principle of success of the film in the need to distribute roles to recognized stars. Helen McCormack (Polly Shelby) and Natasha O. Keefe (Lisie) are mostly theater actresses.
The only and main question for the film and its creators is the question of responsibility for the consequences of such screen anti-examples. Cinema is a product of mass consumption and it is not necessary to rely on viewer filters when consuming such a product. Through the formed sympathy for the characters is the rehabilitation of their methods of becoming with a glass of whiskey in his hands, a cigarette in his teeth and a revolver in his hand. Even "The Godfather" ends with the helpless cry of Don Corleone with his dying daughter in her arms with a bullet in her chest intended for him. His son, as you remember, defiantly chooses the career of an opera singer, during whose performance the tragic finale of this saga occurs, showing what a terrible price the main character has to pay for his choice.
In "Blinders" the reflection of the characters is certainly present, but it never comes to the fore, always giving way to the action with the ingenious schemes of Tom Shelby, who must control the situation in the family and ahead of his enemies, due to his supernatural gypsy instinct. Although they also did not accept such conclusions.
Finally, the Roma in Britain are nomadic Irish, not Romali. And this explains a lot in the motivation of the main characters. But it is necessary to write a separate comment with specific explanations.
Bold, strong, confident in themselves and their decisions people at all times inspired the viewer. This concept will never die, and it can be proved by the fact that at all times people admired the heroes of legends who steadfastly passed all difficulties and eventually came to their goal. People associate themselves with them, imitate them, because they admire them.
In this essay, I will try to understand whether it is permissible to admire the main character, what his surroundings are, and what, in fact, is the message of such an undoubtedly grandiose work.
Thomas Shelby (Cillian Murphy) is the main character of the series and from the first series we are given to understand that the head of the Shelby family is damn cool. When business issues arise, everyone consults with him, and he, in turn, either convenes a family meeting or decides them himself, often without warning his relatives about his actions, which often only harms them, since they simply did not know how to act. Speaking of action. The series is named after a really existing gang, but in reality, Peaky Blinders traded in the nineteenth century, but the series is artistic, so we do not look at this. Blinders are engaged in the fact that they cross the line of the law for their own benefit. Their main fishing is the organization of bets on horse racing, and accordingly, attempts to influence the result of these races. In fact, the antagonists in the face of the Shelby family in the series are presented as heroes for whom you want to worry, and the representatives of the law in the face of the Birmingham police are shown in such a way that you hope for their failure. Defending the honor of the family is a commendable thing, but the Blinders do not seek respect, but fear from the common people, and in relation to competing gangs, the policy is simple - pay or die.
Thomas' family is quite colorful. Thomas has three brothers. Arthur is the oldest of them all. He is an aggressive, hot-tempered person, for whom taking a human life is something ordinary and simple, and violence in general is normal, because he is a visor, which means his complete impunity.
John is the younger brother of the trio. As hot-tempered as Arthur, however, one feels that he is much more good-natured than his brothers. All the brothers were at war. We are told about this, and glimpses it in Thomas’ flashbacks, but personally it is not enough for me. It would be interesting to see how their personal breakdown happened, how it all ended, why Thomas threw out his medal. Yes, the war causes mental trauma, but what happened there, it remains to think the viewer. Finn Shelby is the younger brother in the family. He was not in the war, and because of his age he takes a minimum part in affairs.
The show was made at a high level. I feel the style, the series is nice to watch. Costumes, time of events described, casting. Everything was selected and executed at the highest level. The series shows us real historical events that took place in the world. Should I? To watch England fight the Communists not without the help of bandits did not seem so interesting to me. With each new season, we see Thomas rise higher and higher, finding stronger opponents each time. I expect the ending of the series to be classic and tragic. Thomas Shelby did not deserve a good ending to his story.
About the series can be expressed in such a way that literally recently finished watching it, I find it difficult to remember the events of the first season. Maybe the problem is with me, but I think the events in the series are just not so interesting that they are remembered for a long time. The plot is simple and clear, and most events are predictable. Watching the life of the Peaky Blinders, you might think that the problems in which they got into will not get out, but we still understand that Thomas has some plan, that he will solve everything. We are just waiting for the last series, when we will be shown the successful implementation of this plan.
I recommend you to check if you have time.
Good show. A great dive into England at the beginning of the last century. Here the atmosphere is sustained, and the plot is not bad, and the actors play well. A special highlight of the series is its relative unpredictability, which makes it very different from its competitors.
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As I noticed, everyone likes to write long reviews, veiled to demonstrate their baggage of watched TV series and mention the one about which they write. I will try to be very brief about the sharp visors.
1. Plot. It does not exist at all, carelessly scattered scenes simply change places and do not add up the overall puzzle of the picture, you look and wonder what actually happens after watching the first season you can not remember absolutely nothing from what you saw in this series, because there is no plot at all. The only thing you can remember is that the authors tried to copy the "Underground Empire", Shelby is an ugly hybrid ineptly crossed from Enoch "Nucky" Thompson and James "Jimmy" Darmody, did not even hesitate to take the entire military history of James.
2. Dialogue. My brain has never felt so offended in my life by listening to these pathetic, worthless dialogues, even in the Grindhouse movies there are no such meaningless speeches as here. Brilliant dialogues are Game of Thrones or House of Cards, dialogues subconsciously charge the brain of viewers with adrenaline, from the dialogues of "sharp visors" to sleeping hunting, from them the nerves are so strongly irritable that the monitor destroy the hunt.
3. Heroes. They are so flat that even words such as template, cliché and wooden foam are too lavish terms for them. The only reaction to seeing these characters is hysterical laughter, especially when they are walking the gait of the intelligentsia or making serious faces, probably it should look formidable, but this absurdity is just ridiculous. There are no prescribed characters, no internal conflicts, there is nothing, if we consider criminal dramas, then perfectly spelled characters are the Sopranos or the Wire.
There could be points: dramaturgy; suspense; twist, etc. ... but this series about such things have not heard.
1 out of 10
I think a lot of people have heard about this series. He has won the hearts of millions of people around the world. And this is understandable, because the work turned out to be quite high-quality, which is now rare for some series.
Theme 'Sharp Blinders' already intriguing. Still, almost everyone likes to watch the activities of criminal clans in movies or TV series.
The storyline unfolds in 1919 in the vastness of the UK in the city of Birmingham. From the war returning members of the gang ' Peaky Blinders' - the Shelby brothers. As the leader of the gang, the eldest of the brothers is Arthur (Paul Anderson), but in fact, Thomas (Cillian Murphy) is the middle of the Shelby brothers, and part-time head of the group. Thomas is working hard to finally legalize the family business. There are four brothers in the family, but there are many more gang members.
Details do not want to write, after all, some moments can serve as spoilers. But, believe me, the plot will not make you miss one of the already filmed seasons.
If we talk about the visual component of the series, and this is an important factor, then it is on top. Although, the UK does not know how to shoot their TV series otherwise, I was convinced of this while watching ' Sherlock' Very well conveyed the creators of the series spirit of the time, it can be traced in everything, in every little thing, in every bottle of alcohol. Operator work, music, editing - all this is done well just gorgeous! What costumes will be appreciated by both men and women.
Also, the obvious advantage ' Peaky Blinders' is the selection of actors. Killian Murphy, Sam Neal, Helen McCrory, Tom Hardy - all these people are a priori indicators of quality. It is very difficult to single out someone, because they are all kept on the same bar. Everyone was able to convey the character of their heroes in such a way that you empathize with everyone.
I definitely recommend watching who hasn’t made it to this series yet.
The series ' Peaky Blinders' is considered a modern television classic. Indeed, the script (with well-written characters, which is important), directing, cinematography, editing, historical authenticity. . .
Stop, stop, stop! Although traditionally in all positive reviews it is customary to note ' stunningly reliable recreation of the historical era', but in fact it does not smell here.
In fact - before us something like ' Red Sparrow' with Jennifer Lawrence (here a similar character plays Annabel Wallis), but not about Russia, and about England - the city of Birmingham, 1919. And in order to see this cranberry, you do not need to be a historian.
The Irish enter the English pub and start singing (in English) something like an IRA anthem loudly. And no one cares. Yeah, 1919. It is as if somewhere in the United States now openly glorify the new caliphate or the events of September 11.
The heroine watches a movie with Rudolfo Valentino in the title role and eats popcorn. In 1919. Valentino played his first major role much later, and popcorn even appeared in American theaters in the 1930s. And here's England, 1919.
Another character in 1919 loves to dance Charleston. Which even appeared in the United States only in 1923.
The hero, in order to preserve his incognito, is represented by a Prussian (i.e., a German). Well, it's very clever to introduce yourself as a Prussian in England in 1919. Who did the British fight for four years? Just Google 'The Great War' and 'Pashendale'. And this character is not a moron or a dummy, but (in the plot) very clever and inventive.
There are a lot of frankly dubious elements of the plot: I did not specifically check them, but I am not very sure. I am not sure that in Birmingham 1919 there was already a whole Chinatown, that by 1919 the British army had already been demobilized (in the plot, there is not one returning from the front - everyone has already returned; although at this time the British were fighting a war in Ireland and intervention in Soviet Russia); that the heroine, who was getting a job in a pub (reminder, this is England in 1919!), no one mistook for a prostitute and did not try & #39; that a girl from the slums could in 1919 just let her into the opera box.
Of course, you can ignore all this, but historical authenticity is also the authenticity, the plausibility of the characters and their actions. And when you notice such blunders in each series, it is involuntarily tempting to repeat the famous statement of Stanislavsky: 'Red!'
But, again, ' Peaky Blinders' is really a very professionally done project.
The most important part of the series is how classic Thomas Shelby's character is as a negative character. Just like Vito Corleone. Shelby commits criminal acts with a set of personal rules. In the era of modern cinema, when the hero is post-classic (negative or disregards the rules), such characters are recognized as rebels who can turn the world around. Everyone wants to leave a trail. Thomas Shelby does the same, only thanks to clear principles he can very quickly plan his actions for many steps forward.
In fact, we have a pure-blooded adventure where the average in the family, but the most intelligent brother Shelby moves his gangster family clan to a beautiful life. Luxury, power, the ability to solve all issues is the basis on which the narrative is built. But the series would not be purely English if it could not be built a detective. The script is the basis on which the wonderful acting talents of all participants of the events are revealed. When with each episode, the brothers’ seemingly ordinary way of life in the form of crime, betting, theft changes to the story of how a small gang of several people increasingly distributes its influence and becomes significant outside its hometown of Birmingham.
With each subsequent season, the creators complicate the narrative palette. Thomas Shelby’s ambitions make him expand his sphere of influence. To run not only your city, but to do business in London. Only the world does not stand still and politics and the world agenda interfere with Thomas’ plans to conquer territory. If you want power, be prepared to make serious sacrifices and crimes. The scriptwriters very competently place accents in such a way that unexpected, but very competently unfolded plot twists occur by the season finale. The season holds the structure well. Another issue is that writers cannot afford to repeat the successful formula of the first season, when the main characters are a small gang with their proven techniques. The audience needs new stories, and as the scale increases, the number of actors needs to increase. Only it is not as smooth and effective as in the first series, although in the surprise do not refuse.
Playing actors is a real delight. A high-quality scenario allows you to feel the full force of how deeply the actors reincarnated in the events of that historical period. The series reveals in detail the characters, fears, anxieties and other emotions that move the characters. The best part is that everything is built around Thomas Shelby. It is he who acts as the main force of the series, and when all the acting characters are correctly lined up around, then as they say 'Sweet makes a king'.
A separate word to how suddenly changed the semantic palette in the fifth season. The creators are trying to expand the audience and form a new agenda for the film. Previously, female characters acted as an addition to the main character. In the fifth season, female characters often act not as a strong link, but as a destructive force that leads to the fact that family strife occurs. Does Arthur's wife want him to be happy? She's pursuing her ambitions. Does Thomas' wife want him to be happy? In case of loss of the breadwinner, she wants to remain prosperous. None of them earns family money, is not responsible for the common cause, does not bear business risks. They lack knowledge, understanding, and understanding. Just needs. But the film is about a cruel world in which the survival of the family depends on common unity and decisive action. Turning female characters into the main texture of the plot not only did not improve the story, but made it the weakest in all seasons. In the fifth season, logic is drowning in emotions and, unfortunately, it is very difficult to build a good season on this.
9 out of 10
This is just a review of the first season, because I’m not going to watch the second and subsequent seasons. Let's go!
Plot.
I have never seen such a disgusting and thumb-sucking plot in my life. All the actions of the characters are illogical, stupid and delusional. Any plot twist is done only for a pathetic phrase. You will never find any meaning or deep subtext.
Dialogues.
I have never seen such pathetic and stupid dialogues even in the worst Russian TV series about the love of a cop and an ordinary Russian nanny. It's all pathos and no sense.
Characters.
I didn’t feel a bit of respect or compassion for any character in this series. They're all a bunch of brainless, self-respecting people. Inspector, Thomas' brothers, his lover, secondary characters, all paper and nothing. It’s worth noting that the only character I didn’t disgust with was a communist. Your favorite Thomas Shelby is the most pathetic gangster in the history of cinema. All of them 'gang' are weak-willed, pathetic and cowardly 'boys'. Throughout the series, they wipe their feet and do whatever they want.
Style.
If you were to ask what the real Shelbys & #39 looked like in those years, you would be quite surprised. In every shot, you see Barbershop's work, all licked like before the wedding. By the end of the first season, it becomes disgusting from constantly drinking and smoking drunks.
I don’t recommend this work to anyone, but if you want to see a good movie, check out Legend & #39; 2015 with Tom Hardy. Don't waste your time on terrible TV shows.
The main attraction of the series (all agree here) is Killian Murphy in the image of the gang leader. He has strength, intelligence, determination, and appearance. He's got it. All women's dreams. This makes him stand out among his entourage and is mainly the reason for the growth of the gang’s power. The actor fit perfectly, his hero immediately fell in love and riveted my attention to the series.
The soundtrack's not bad, theme. The original setting of Birmingham in the 1920s. Beautiful scenery, but they would like more, as there are many types of interior, but the streets and nature are not enough for me. In each series, the creators of the series like to show the same factory.
The plot (if you close your eyes to the “cranberry” from the third season) is also pleasing, there are enough interesting moments and situations. The action is shot lively and quite inventive, in the best traditions of gangster cinema.
For me, the main drawback of the series is the bitchy characters of most female characters. They constantly shake their rights, make scandals, whine, saw their husbands and even give them to enemies. How do you feel about such female characters? I remember Walter White’s wife from Breaking Bad. Most of Ada Shelby's dialogue is annoying because of the invariably sour face and constant discontent. Polly and Grace's actions are also puzzling. Arthur's wife, a Russian princess. .. I'd rather be quiet. .. They get a decent amount of screen time. You have to endure... I want to tell the directors, ‘Guys, now feminism is in fashion, why you can’t make more balanced characters, more attractive female images that you immediately love, and not those that you hate more antagonists.’
By the way, the antagonists and secondary characters turned out to be wonderful, with worked out ambiguous characters. Sam Neal, Tom Hardy, Adrian Brody, Aidan Gillen and others on top, well done!
I’ve watched all the seasons and I’m waiting 6 hours! The ten-point series can be estimated at 12. That's wow! The moral is clear from the start - Thomas is a real man with the right values, which he is ready to defend as well as his devoted Shelby family. To the main character you have deep respect for his actions and not empty words!!! A sense of pride that there are such ' the right' Gentlemen in cinema. While watching, you do not want to be distracted by notifications, you want to consider all the details of the interior of the 1920s and look at the emotions of the characters under the retro soundtracks. Thomas himself and his brothers, John and Arthur, conquered with their style of clothing caps and coats over snow-white shirts, dragged the attention of their endless consumption of brandy (only after dinner), whiskey and Tokyo. Their drinking was aesthetic, but not as much as smoking cigarettes! This is a completely separate puzzle in the films of the series - the step of a member of a gang of sharp visors down the street with a cigar and a hard look forward, considering a plan to kill someone. But often the visors thought about the amorous affairs. So Tommy's lady of heart, Grace conquered my Instagram avatar. She is a model of beauty and femininity, which should be equal to the female audience. It was not just that, because it became the love of his life. In this Lady he found solace and wisdom he had never seen before or since. I still watch additional videos with fragments of the series in order to remember all the moments and feel the same.
I never liked actor Killian Murphy.I watched the first series of visors with a creak because of him.
Oh, God, I was wrong. The role of Thomas Shelby is entirely his. It’s like an exclusive tailored, expensive, special suit that can fit perfectly only on it. Oh, those bottomless, chilling eyes, manners, posture, play - it's amazing. Each series keeps the viewer from beginning to end.
5 seasons of pleasure from the storyline, actors, costumes. How cool can the attitude to a particular hero change ' during the play'.
It is unexpectedly nice that after 5 seasons the series is gaining momentum more and more, the plot is exciting, the desire to watch the Shelby family is unquenchable.
There's no long acceleration to stick to. From the first episode, magic happens. The dialogue is very interesting. In peak situations, you want to press the pause and argue about what the hero will do now. How do the British do it?
Peaky visors are not a dessert for the night, imbued with the spirit of romanticism. It is good, strong as Thomas Shelby's nerves, Irish whiskey with a constant aftertaste of tobacco. Be prepared to spend all your feelings and emotions on these guys. And believe me, Peaky Blinders is a story about how you will be ready to forgive a lot of utter scoundrels not for their pretty faces. . .