Peaky Blinders - series 2
Sep. 25th, 2014 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silver_sunPeaky Blinders is back on next Thursday - the 2nd October at 9pm on BBC1 for another six episodes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2014/39/peaky-blinders
For those who don't know it's period drama set in Birmingham just after the end of WW1, series 1 was 1919, series two is going to be 20/21.
I posted about it here http://the-silver-sun.livejournal.com/tag/series%3A%20peaky%20blinders
And having started a rewatch of series one I'm in agreement with what I said on first viewing:
It's not comfortable watching. It's not a cosy costume drama or a grand family saga or love saves the day cross class relationship. It's gang warfare and corruption. It's violent and it doesn't shy away from it, it's not glamourised, it's brutal and pervasive, an inescapable part of the characters lives. Nobody in it really comes out as a hero, just about everybody does questionable or objectionable things. Everything in it is driven by the characters actions, and as terrible, foolish or unpleasant as those actions are by the time they take them you know why they have. You can't condone their actions, but you still find yourself wanting them to succeed.
So looking forward to seeing just what will happen to the Shelbys, Aunt Polly and the rest of them in the new series.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2014/39/peaky-blinders
For those who don't know it's period drama set in Birmingham just after the end of WW1, series 1 was 1919, series two is going to be 20/21.
I posted about it here http://the-silver-sun.livejournal.com/tag/series%3A%20peaky%20blinders
And having started a rewatch of series one I'm in agreement with what I said on first viewing:
It's not comfortable watching. It's not a cosy costume drama or a grand family saga or love saves the day cross class relationship. It's gang warfare and corruption. It's violent and it doesn't shy away from it, it's not glamourised, it's brutal and pervasive, an inescapable part of the characters lives. Nobody in it really comes out as a hero, just about everybody does questionable or objectionable things. Everything in it is driven by the characters actions, and as terrible, foolish or unpleasant as those actions are by the time they take them you know why they have. You can't condone their actions, but you still find yourself wanting them to succeed.
So looking forward to seeing just what will happen to the Shelbys, Aunt Polly and the rest of them in the new series.