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TV Series Review: Peaky Blinders

High quality production values, the world of post "great" war Birmingham is visceral and we are shown the detailed gritty reality that the characters in this story find themselves in. The "Peaky Blinders" were actually a real gang that existed in Birmingham at the time, and the attention to detail is staggering. The story itself is brilliant, many twists and turns, you find yourself surprised and pleased that the direction you had thought it was going to go, wasn't even close and its something new, and fresh that makes you grin and think - they haven't given up yet, they can still make great TV that is worth watching, each and every week. The style, in that of setting, the way the episodes are filmed, the music - seems distinctly that of The Proposition, Ned Kelly and Lawless. The last is quite coincidental, as Tom Hardy (who portrayed Forrest Bondurant) is making an appearance in the second season. The cast is superb, led by Cillian Murphy and Sam Nei