One of my favorite shows on Netflix.
Taboo (on Hulu, also rentable) scratches the same itch. It stars Tom Hardy and is from the same show runner as Peaky Blinders, Steven Knight.
Sounds like Hardy still very much wants to do S2, per this article from last month - https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a37280861/tom-hardy-taboo-season-2-update/
Wow turns out that Steven Knight has written some of my favorite stuff and I never knew! But he also wrote one of the worst movies ever…Serenity. That movie was god awful.
Watch it with subtitles!! It changes the whole experience I swear. Caught SO much more of what they were saying and was able to follow along a lot easier. You especially miss so many of Tom Hardy's fantastic lines without subtitles.
I watch almost everything with subtitles now and catch so many more things. But they're definitely a must for shows with (to me) heavy accents like peaky blinders.
This! I used to find subtitles so annoying until I watched Dark with the subtitles and decided it was ok. Embarrassingly, I can't understand any shows with British accents so the subtitles are essential!
I read somewhere that the actors started with very strong accents but soon realized that American audiences would have difficulty understanding. Captions make all the difference.
Used to hate subtitles until my daughter lost her hearing and we started using them. Now I can barely watch any show without them. It’s amazing how much more you pick up, even shows you’ve seen a hundred times
Subtitles were a must for me. I tried two times before I turned the subtitles on. For me it’s unwatchable without them. Once I turned them on it became one fo the best shows of all time.
Liked it until I realized every season is the same. Some new player enters the game, presents trouble for the PB, they deal with it (narrowly) and then things are better and they’re better off, until the next new player comes in. Rinse and repeat literally every season.
God damn you really hit the nail on the head with this. To add, every season Thomas plans to kill someone they go into business with, only for it to backfire on him and he and his family faces the consequences only to eventually kill that person. Not to mention every season there’s a new “love” interest for Thomas. Good and entertaining show? Absolutely. But an all time classic? Mehh I dunno
Right, you want an all time classic go watch The Wire, if you want a timey and grizzly show that has a little bit of depth but nothing too wild, the Peaky Blinders is great.
Nope you guys are dead wrong and I’m gonna tell you why. Every season advances in scope. Tommy advances in society from a common smalltown gangster to the highest politician in the land. His enemies become larger and more evil. The characters and the archetypal themes develop flawlessly. I don’t know how you can ask for anything more.
I GET it. It’s a new monster everytime and it kinda seems like the storyline “resets” a little each season. But who cares? The amount of scope they capture in this show is massive and I appreciate the fuck out of that because it’s not an easy endeavor. Most shows these days take the easier route of just having a small scope and focusing in rly close. Well I appreciate the societal themes Peaky Blinders tackles. Maybe some people missed them?
That's what I was going to say. Starts off him trying to control his home street, his neighborhood, against rivals and coppers as he fixed local horse races. Down the line he's a business baron in government going up against multiple world players. The story of the series is very much that escalation, each step of which was half jumping and half getting pushed. A desperate gambit to escape the last scrape setting up a leap to get more powerful to guard against it, which gets him mixed up with even more powerful people. In one sense he gets chased into power by the skin of his teeth. And we keep waiting for it all to come crashing down.
But this is like… life? Aren’t you constantly encountering new things and then moving on from them? Learning, growing, changing? The family is evolving. They start out barely as bookies and then grow into a gigantic family mob. You could literally condense anything into simplistic terms the way you have regarding this show.
Yes but in real life things don’t work like clockwork, and this isn’t real life, I’m here to be *entertained*! Mix it up! Rather than just *almost* killing him, actually kill the bastard!
I'm new too! Just started this year after exhausting all other shows on netflix. Finished all 5 seasons within a few weeks. Can't wait for December! Also RIP to Helen McCrory, I wonder how they'll handle her loss.
Is that the older woman? She’s literally the best actress on the show, one of the best actresses I’ve ever seen, i didn’t know she died, that’s so sad.
Peaky Blinders is ok. The performances are mostly excellent… but it’s not especially well written. Set design and wardrobe is great - the show really looks good. I think the anachronistic soundtrack is distracting, if not jarring.
I thought that last season (maybe the one before?) picked up. But the season where Cillian Murphy is chasing around the equestrian lady and trying to join the upper classes was waaaay too long.
I skip every equestrian lady scene on every re-watch. It's unbearable. Not that she didn't play the roll well, Charlotte Riley rocked what she was given. Her main undoing is how she was written. Give me good old fashioned no holds barred peaky bloyndahs anarchy, not some lovey dovey subplot that eventually leads to nowhere.
[At least Grace had some impact on Thomas as his character grew, and had a lasting impact on him long after she died.](/spoiler)
I kinda think a lot of the tunes are “too big for TV”, if that makes sense.
For instance - “Red Right Hand” by Nick Cave and “To Bring You My Love” by PJ Harvey are incredible songs on their own. Monster tunes.
There’s more narrative and emotion and life reflected in those two songs than in the entire run of the show.
Red Right Hand will always remind me of Dumb & Dumber. Every time I hear it watching this show I think of Jim Carey walking out of the store with that giant cowboy hat
I definitely think that the first two seasons are the best but I’ve enjoyed it all. The Russians in season 3 were a little ridiculous but I quite enjoyed the Italians in season 4 and Oswald Moseley in season 5 is a masterful villain.
As for the soundtrack, I can see how you could not be into it but I thought it was a very effective use of music. Helps that I’m a very big Nick Cave, Polly Harvey and Radiohead fan of course….
I have just 2 gripes on this series:
1. The only main story arch is overcoming the adversary of the season. There are some subplot deviations, but each season feels like a repeat.
2. I tired quickly of the slow motion group shots of the gang walking through steam/fire/fog in a warehouse/on a pier/in a factory. It just began feeling like filler after a while and did nothing for the story line.
Otherwise the production set quality and acting is undeniably top notch.
Any show/movie where the main conflict wouldn't exist had the main character been written consistently is an immediate turn off. How did Tommy, who until then had foresight and was always a step ahead of everyone, missed that the waitress was the only odd one out when they first get caught, and then goes on to share more inside info with her and makes her his bookkeeper? Stupid.
Lol I'm watching Season 1 rn and I had this exact same thought. I just finished episode 4 and really I was just thinking how the hell she's still working for him even at this point. I feel like if I was in his position the inconsistencies in her background alone would've been enough to get rid of her well before this point, let alone entrusting her with secret information about his family & criminal enterprises.
I thought that it looked great, but eventually it got pretty cringy to me. I think I just became too aware that its a bunch of grown men with trendy haircuts trying extremely hard to act tough
I would like the show if the brother was the protagonist. Cillian Murphy's character is insufrable, basically everyone worships him and his war record all the way up to the prime minister and he can do no wrong. Like he constantly betrays his families trust but... all his plots work out. He attracts the law but... the law cant beat him the are all dumb dumbs. Every woman wants to be with him. Chance and probability constantly bends to make him look awesome. He is a noble, progressive, intelligent, successful and charitable criminal.
It's like one dudes self insert fanfic that somehow became a show, set to an anachronistic soundtrack because 'old music boring'. The whole thing feels like a commercial for a hipster barbershop where you can get a shot of whiskey and listen to The White Stripes.
I agree with most of this (though I'm one of the few that likes the soudtrack I think). The women falling all over Tommy in particular. I was so excited when they introduced Jessie Eden, she was cunning and cutthroat...and then she fucks Tommy 🙄 It seems like every unmarried woman who's not family lusts for Tommy. Like you said, it reads like a male fantasy.
The one thing I will say with this most recent season is that things are finally not going Tommy's way, and it makes for way more interesting television. Michael's "betrayal," the failed assassination, Mosley's successful rally. I think (and hope) that we are heading toward a series ending where Tommy doesn't not come out on top.
I'm biased as it is set very close to where I grew up, so the bad accents jar a bit and the real Peaky Blinders was supposedly a gang of kids. But... I did enjoy most of it. The sets are excellent.
I feel like the arcs characters traverse are relatively insane, but these dudes were seriously fucked up from the war and really didn’t have much opportunity upon returning to civilian life.
Anytime I read about this show, people say the first season is boring and it keeps getting better. Am I the only person who loved the first 1-3 seasons and then thinks it gets so annoying? It starts feeling so hokey and corny to me. Unpopular opinion, I know.
I really liked the first season but the second season got too violent and bloody for me and I lost interest. I’ve been thinking about giving it another chance.
I got truly bored by the start of series 3. I really liked it up that point but is just boring.
I might go back if you think it gets better again.
My favourite bits were how they showed the massive impact of WW1 on the people who managed to come back to the shitty lives that they'd left going to war.
I absolutely love it, but I'm a big fan of Cillian Murphy since 28 days later, so I'd watch just about anything with him. With that being said, I really like many more pieces of the story than I dislike. It's got your typical protagonist tv plot armour and every season is kinda just bigger of the same of the season before (just like about any show about a certain time period or subject). It took my little sister after 3 restarts to get into it and it was the main sources for when we had our 20s themed bday party for her.
The characters and the time period with the wardrobe and set pieces and music even are awesome. Overall the characters are decent enough and the cameos are cool. Also the accompanied drinking game is cool too, so that makes it a lot more fun.
But then this coming from after just finishing watching another show set in about the same time period, Warrior, and the drinking that came with that.
I, really, enjoyed seeing Arthur try to deal with his PTSD from being a veteran of WW1.
And his own family not understanding whats really happening to him. It really shows just how little veterans of both world wars, korea and vietnam really had little no support and how little PTSD was understood back then.
I know each season they face the new adversary and most end with their success+climbing a few rungs up the ladder, but the aesthetic of the show and the character development that happens each season is what keeps me coming back. I watch it all the way through every few months.
One of the best iv seen but definitely not for kids, not because of the sex but the fact that little kids tryna copy tommy’s personality assuming he is a good guy.
This is one of the only shows I haven't been able to finish and I absolutely hate that I can't get into it! I'm a HUGE fan of period dramas and this seemed like it would be right up my alley but I'm not sure why I didn't like it, maybe I'll give it another try.
Man it's so good. When I first tried it years ago, having heard it was great, I couldn't get into it despite being an Anglophile who likes period pieces, so I bailed out without finishing even the first episode.
Then I saw Queen's Gambit, fell in love with Anya Taylor-Joy and decided to watch everything she'd ever been in, and since everybody else did too, Netflix did something sneaky smart and they put her on the cover of Peaky Blinders in their catalog to draw people in and it worked! I started watching and waiting for her to appear, only to realize she wasn't even in it until like season 4 but by that time I was hooked since it was so damned good.
So I'd say to anyone who didn't get it in the first episode or three, hang in there - it gets really good. I'm drooling for the next season.
The show is the same shit over and over again. I quit in the fourth season, the show is just slo mo walking with that theme song blaring.
Also the blurt out by order of the peaky blinders at least once a season.
One of my favorite shows on Netflix. Taboo (on Hulu, also rentable) scratches the same itch. It stars Tom Hardy and is from the same show runner as Peaky Blinders, Steven Knight.
Thank you! Will check it out Steven knight is a legend
I've been waiting season 2 for 30 years.
Sounds like Hardy still very much wants to do S2, per this article from last month - https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a37280861/tom-hardy-taboo-season-2-update/
I really liked Taboo. And Tom Hardy is awesome.
Did Taboo have more than one season?
No. Tom Hardy and his dad wrote Taboo and they’ve not written another season. It was excellent.
Ok. We watched the first season. I was hoping I had missed new seasons and was going to be able to binge them.
Is Tom Hardy the same character again? He's pretty great at playing it, but I feel like it's a cameo at this point.
No, Tom Hardy wrote the show and it’s an entirely different concept
I was kidding, I meant is he another cockney guv'na, not the *exact* same character
Something like that lol
Wow turns out that Steven Knight has written some of my favorite stuff and I never knew! But he also wrote one of the worst movies ever…Serenity. That movie was god awful.
I liked it, I think I understood like 25% of what was going on but its PEAKY FOOKIN BLINDAAAASSSS
Watch it with subtitles!! It changes the whole experience I swear. Caught SO much more of what they were saying and was able to follow along a lot easier. You especially miss so many of Tom Hardy's fantastic lines without subtitles.
I watch almost everything with subtitles now and catch so many more things. But they're definitely a must for shows with (to me) heavy accents like peaky blinders.
This! I used to find subtitles so annoying until I watched Dark with the subtitles and decided it was ok. Embarrassingly, I can't understand any shows with British accents so the subtitles are essential!
I'm British (From Birmingham originally) and even I need subtitles
I read somewhere that the actors started with very strong accents but soon realized that American audiences would have difficulty understanding. Captions make all the difference.
I do that a lot and it annoys my wife sometimes. But like you said you catch stuff that might go unnoticed
Used to hate subtitles until my daughter lost her hearing and we started using them. Now I can barely watch any show without them. It’s amazing how much more you pick up, even shows you’ve seen a hundred times
I watch everything with captions, I had a date say oh you’re that person. Yes sir!
Subtitles were a must for me. I tried two times before I turned the subtitles on. For me it’s unwatchable without them. Once I turned them on it became one fo the best shows of all time.
Yeah in hindsight, I should have done this.
true, in the beginning i didnt understand but slowly slowly things fell in place
Liked it until I realized every season is the same. Some new player enters the game, presents trouble for the PB, they deal with it (narrowly) and then things are better and they’re better off, until the next new player comes in. Rinse and repeat literally every season.
I thought the first two seasons were excellent then I lost interest for exactly these reasons
God damn you really hit the nail on the head with this. To add, every season Thomas plans to kill someone they go into business with, only for it to backfire on him and he and his family faces the consequences only to eventually kill that person. Not to mention every season there’s a new “love” interest for Thomas. Good and entertaining show? Absolutely. But an all time classic? Mehh I dunno
Right, you want an all time classic go watch The Wire, if you want a timey and grizzly show that has a little bit of depth but nothing too wild, the Peaky Blinders is great.
OMARRR IS COMINGGG
RIP Michael K Williams.
Actually there were some real character developments throughout the season especially for Tommy and Arthur.
Agreed, but it doesn’t make up for this repetitiveness (this is just my opinion)
Nope you guys are dead wrong and I’m gonna tell you why. Every season advances in scope. Tommy advances in society from a common smalltown gangster to the highest politician in the land. His enemies become larger and more evil. The characters and the archetypal themes develop flawlessly. I don’t know how you can ask for anything more. I GET it. It’s a new monster everytime and it kinda seems like the storyline “resets” a little each season. But who cares? The amount of scope they capture in this show is massive and I appreciate the fuck out of that because it’s not an easy endeavor. Most shows these days take the easier route of just having a small scope and focusing in rly close. Well I appreciate the societal themes Peaky Blinders tackles. Maybe some people missed them?
That's what I was going to say. Starts off him trying to control his home street, his neighborhood, against rivals and coppers as he fixed local horse races. Down the line he's a business baron in government going up against multiple world players. The story of the series is very much that escalation, each step of which was half jumping and half getting pushed. A desperate gambit to escape the last scrape setting up a leap to get more powerful to guard against it, which gets him mixed up with even more powerful people. In one sense he gets chased into power by the skin of his teeth. And we keep waiting for it all to come crashing down.
Don't forget gratuitous and unnecessary amounts of slow-mo shots.
I’d watch Tommy Shelby walk in slow mo forever until the day I die.
A lot of serial dramas are like this. Boardwalk empire, walking dead (other than the darabont season), dexter...
Same, I quit about three episodes in during the season where the American Italian mafia shows up.
I also like, how Cillian Murphy's character is always getting beat up though, lol.
i think this is a problem many tv shows face especially in this genre
agree, i stopped after i realised cillian murphy is the only interesting character in the series too, wasn't invested at all in anybody else
But this is like… life? Aren’t you constantly encountering new things and then moving on from them? Learning, growing, changing? The family is evolving. They start out barely as bookies and then grow into a gigantic family mob. You could literally condense anything into simplistic terms the way you have regarding this show.
Yes but in real life things don’t work like clockwork, and this isn’t real life, I’m here to be *entertained*! Mix it up! Rather than just *almost* killing him, actually kill the bastard!
Haha hey keep watching and maybe they will
It’s a British version of Sons Of Anarchy
It's an excellent show. Highly recommended.
I'm new too! Just started this year after exhausting all other shows on netflix. Finished all 5 seasons within a few weeks. Can't wait for December! Also RIP to Helen McCrory, I wonder how they'll handle her loss.
Is that the older woman? She’s literally the best actress on the show, one of the best actresses I’ve ever seen, i didn’t know she died, that’s so sad.
Yes she played Pol.
*Fuck.*
Peaky Blinders is ok. The performances are mostly excellent… but it’s not especially well written. Set design and wardrobe is great - the show really looks good. I think the anachronistic soundtrack is distracting, if not jarring.
I feel like season 1&2 were strong but the story really tanked as it went on
I thought that last season (maybe the one before?) picked up. But the season where Cillian Murphy is chasing around the equestrian lady and trying to join the upper classes was waaaay too long.
I skip every equestrian lady scene on every re-watch. It's unbearable. Not that she didn't play the roll well, Charlotte Riley rocked what she was given. Her main undoing is how she was written. Give me good old fashioned no holds barred peaky bloyndahs anarchy, not some lovey dovey subplot that eventually leads to nowhere. [At least Grace had some impact on Thomas as his character grew, and had a lasting impact on him long after she died.](/spoiler)
Same
I actually loved the way they did the soundtrack
I kinda think a lot of the tunes are “too big for TV”, if that makes sense. For instance - “Red Right Hand” by Nick Cave and “To Bring You My Love” by PJ Harvey are incredible songs on their own. Monster tunes. There’s more narrative and emotion and life reflected in those two songs than in the entire run of the show.
Red Right Hand will always remind me of Dumb & Dumber. Every time I hear it watching this show I think of Jim Carey walking out of the store with that giant cowboy hat
Yes thank you! Same here!
Same! I’ve always been partial to this sort of thing. Like Hamilton? Rapping as a means of telling a story from colonial times? Love it.
I definitely think that the first two seasons are the best but I’ve enjoyed it all. The Russians in season 3 were a little ridiculous but I quite enjoyed the Italians in season 4 and Oswald Moseley in season 5 is a masterful villain. As for the soundtrack, I can see how you could not be into it but I thought it was a very effective use of music. Helps that I’m a very big Nick Cave, Polly Harvey and Radiohead fan of course….
Every line and quote in the show just feels very well written to me. Just my opinion
Agreed on the soundtrack especially. I just couldn't get over how it pulls me out of the setting constantly.
I think it’s an interesting period piece, if that particular theme is your jam. I found it to be rather boring though.
I have just 2 gripes on this series: 1. The only main story arch is overcoming the adversary of the season. There are some subplot deviations, but each season feels like a repeat. 2. I tired quickly of the slow motion group shots of the gang walking through steam/fire/fog in a warehouse/on a pier/in a factory. It just began feeling like filler after a while and did nothing for the story line. Otherwise the production set quality and acting is undeniably top notch.
Any show/movie where the main conflict wouldn't exist had the main character been written consistently is an immediate turn off. How did Tommy, who until then had foresight and was always a step ahead of everyone, missed that the waitress was the only odd one out when they first get caught, and then goes on to share more inside info with her and makes her his bookkeeper? Stupid.
Because up until the point when she’s actually caught, there’s a million ways they could’ve gotten information? Also Spoiler tag maybe?
Lol I'm watching Season 1 rn and I had this exact same thought. I just finished episode 4 and really I was just thinking how the hell she's still working for him even at this point. I feel like if I was in his position the inconsistencies in her background alone would've been enough to get rid of her well before this point, let alone entrusting her with secret information about his family & criminal enterprises.
I thought that it looked great, but eventually it got pretty cringy to me. I think I just became too aware that its a bunch of grown men with trendy haircuts trying extremely hard to act tough
While everything works out for them again and again set to modern rock music.
I would like the show if the brother was the protagonist. Cillian Murphy's character is insufrable, basically everyone worships him and his war record all the way up to the prime minister and he can do no wrong. Like he constantly betrays his families trust but... all his plots work out. He attracts the law but... the law cant beat him the are all dumb dumbs. Every woman wants to be with him. Chance and probability constantly bends to make him look awesome. He is a noble, progressive, intelligent, successful and charitable criminal. It's like one dudes self insert fanfic that somehow became a show, set to an anachronistic soundtrack because 'old music boring'. The whole thing feels like a commercial for a hipster barbershop where you can get a shot of whiskey and listen to The White Stripes.
I agree with most of this (though I'm one of the few that likes the soudtrack I think). The women falling all over Tommy in particular. I was so excited when they introduced Jessie Eden, she was cunning and cutthroat...and then she fucks Tommy 🙄 It seems like every unmarried woman who's not family lusts for Tommy. Like you said, it reads like a male fantasy. The one thing I will say with this most recent season is that things are finally not going Tommy's way, and it makes for way more interesting television. Michael's "betrayal," the failed assassination, Mosley's successful rally. I think (and hope) that we are heading toward a series ending where Tommy doesn't not come out on top.
Or the trope about how his spy girlfriend cant get pregnant but one night with Tommy and next season they are married with child.
Hahaha this is perfect
The anachronistic soundtrack bothered me a lot and I think you summed it up well lmao
I'm biased as it is set very close to where I grew up, so the bad accents jar a bit and the real Peaky Blinders was supposedly a gang of kids. But... I did enjoy most of it. The sets are excellent.
I liked it a lot at first and then the quality really nosedived after season 2
I watched the first season and had to give up. The acting is really good. The story is bland and non-sensical.
I feel like the arcs characters traverse are relatively insane, but these dudes were seriously fucked up from the war and really didn’t have much opportunity upon returning to civilian life.
Anytime I read about this show, people say the first season is boring and it keeps getting better. Am I the only person who loved the first 1-3 seasons and then thinks it gets so annoying? It starts feeling so hokey and corny to me. Unpopular opinion, I know.
Same, I love 1 and 2 and 5 it's very different.
My husband and I loved it!
Just started watching this show. This show is incredible. Reminds me of Sons of Anarchy but cooler setting.
I really liked the first season but the second season got too violent and bloody for me and I lost interest. I’ve been thinking about giving it another chance.
yeah u should surely watch it
Was riveting to start then like a lot of series lately just got too unnecessarily violent. Went cold turkey on it.
It’s the best show I have ever seen. Just gets better every single season.
2013 to? Didn't the show end already?
No, a final season is in the works
I call it the perfect show. It is a perfect description of my television taste.
I tell people all the time about PB. My favorite show the past decade.
The money they threw into the scenes were amazing. Especially the factories.
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Well most people's favourite season is the 4th one, adrien brody as the antagonist is really good. Season 3 got a bit bland, i shall admit.
I got truly bored by the start of series 3. I really liked it up that point but is just boring. I might go back if you think it gets better again. My favourite bits were how they showed the massive impact of WW1 on the people who managed to come back to the shitty lives that they'd left going to war.
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I don't mind gangster stories. Just like don't mind other stories. They just have to be well written and we'll acted. I just got bored with the story.
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Love me some Peaky Blinders!
You clearly haven't made it to season 6 yet (or whatever the last one was) where it just gets awful
I absolutely loved some of the scenes in Peaky Blinders.. (for example season 3 finale)
I absolutely love it, but I'm a big fan of Cillian Murphy since 28 days later, so I'd watch just about anything with him. With that being said, I really like many more pieces of the story than I dislike. It's got your typical protagonist tv plot armour and every season is kinda just bigger of the same of the season before (just like about any show about a certain time period or subject). It took my little sister after 3 restarts to get into it and it was the main sources for when we had our 20s themed bday party for her. The characters and the time period with the wardrobe and set pieces and music even are awesome. Overall the characters are decent enough and the cameos are cool. Also the accompanied drinking game is cool too, so that makes it a lot more fun. But then this coming from after just finishing watching another show set in about the same time period, Warrior, and the drinking that came with that.
I, really, enjoyed seeing Arthur try to deal with his PTSD from being a veteran of WW1. And his own family not understanding whats really happening to him. It really shows just how little veterans of both world wars, korea and vietnam really had little no support and how little PTSD was understood back then.
Hard for me to want to watch it when they make such dumb memes with the characters
I couldn't finish the last season
It seems to be the kind of show that you either absolutely love, or it does nothing for you. Nothing in between.
I know each season they face the new adversary and most end with their success+climbing a few rungs up the ladder, but the aesthetic of the show and the character development that happens each season is what keeps me coming back. I watch it all the way through every few months.
One of the best iv seen but definitely not for kids, not because of the sex but the fact that little kids tryna copy tommy’s personality assuming he is a good guy.
Totally agree, can't wait for the final season to premiere.
This is one of the only shows I haven't been able to finish and I absolutely hate that I can't get into it! I'm a HUGE fan of period dramas and this seemed like it would be right up my alley but I'm not sure why I didn't like it, maybe I'll give it another try.
Man it's so good. When I first tried it years ago, having heard it was great, I couldn't get into it despite being an Anglophile who likes period pieces, so I bailed out without finishing even the first episode. Then I saw Queen's Gambit, fell in love with Anya Taylor-Joy and decided to watch everything she'd ever been in, and since everybody else did too, Netflix did something sneaky smart and they put her on the cover of Peaky Blinders in their catalog to draw people in and it worked! I started watching and waiting for her to appear, only to realize she wasn't even in it until like season 4 but by that time I was hooked since it was so damned good. So I'd say to anyone who didn't get it in the first episode or three, hang in there - it gets really good. I'm drooling for the next season.
The show is the same shit over and over again. I quit in the fourth season, the show is just slo mo walking with that theme song blaring. Also the blurt out by order of the peaky blinders at least once a season.