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Peaky Blinders

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Allsorts Wed 09-Mar-22 06:58:29

Dislike the violence, the swearing, the people, the dark scenes, the Brummie accent not correct for the area they were bought up in. In fact don’t know I watched it.?

FannyCornforth Wed 09-Mar-22 06:49:33

Kate1949

I stopped watching after series 2. As a born and bred Brummie, I can't be doing with all the awful Brummie accents.

Same here. It hurt my ears.

MayBee I have exactly the same thing with plots.
My mind wanders.

grannydarkhair Wed 09-Mar-22 02:06:46

MayBee70 it was the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool.

MayBee70 Tue 08-Mar-22 21:53:43

I wonder which cathedral it was?

grannydarkhair Tue 08-Mar-22 21:02:39

I was disappointed with this second episode. It was literally too dark at times. All Ada did was swear. The highlights for me were the scene in the cathedral, Alfie’s return, Tommy’s speech (I’d vote for him), Lizzie’s instant and obvious dislike of Diana Mitford. And it looks like Esme is about to return.

MayBee70 Sat 05-Mar-22 23:10:50

Documentary about the real Peaky Blinders in on BBC 2 9pm Monday 7th….

Jaxjacky Mon 28-Feb-22 15:02:36

Highlight of our weekend viewing (bar the rugby on Saturday!).

Rosalyn69 Mon 28-Feb-22 14:05:38

It’s fantastic. Loving it.

GillT57 Mon 28-Feb-22 13:46:34

MayBee70

Charlie Chaplin is rumoured to have been born to the gypsies living in Black Patch Park, which was close to where I grew up. My uncle’s local was The Garrison.

ah, thank you. I didn't know that.

grannydarkhair Mon 28-Feb-22 13:42:20

I only became a PB fan during the first lockdown, binge watched it all. The reason I never watched it originally was because of Cillian Murphy, there’s always been something about him that gives me the creeps, but I have to admit his performance in PB has changed my mind, he’s superb in it.
Last night’s sober Tommy was, if anything, even scarier than his previous persona. His parting words to Michael about Gina travelling to Britain were brilliant. I thought the tribute to Helen McCrory was wonderful. Poor Arthur. Ada coming even more into her own as part of the family. Can’t wait for next week’s episode.

MayBee70 Sun 27-Feb-22 23:54:52

Charlie Chaplin is rumoured to have been born to the gypsies living in Black Patch Park, which was close to where I grew up. My uncle’s local was The Garrison.

Kate1949 Sun 27-Feb-22 23:39:25

I stopped watching after series 2. As a born and bred Brummie, I can't be doing with all the awful Brummie accents.

GillT57 Sun 27-Feb-22 23:35:16

What are the Chaplin gypsy references? I love Peaky Blinders despite usually hating violence and bad language. I love the music and the cinematography.

MayBee70 Sun 27-Feb-22 23:03:51

I don’t understand most things I watch! I realised that years ago. Especially detective type things. The synopsis I watched was very good. I think most people would have made sense of it. My brain doesn’t seem to work that way ( if it works at all ). I just don’t follow plots! Mind you I probably know more about the Charlie Chaplin, gypsy references than most people do. But that’s about it!

tanith Sun 27-Feb-22 22:42:11

Maybe you could read a good synopsis of the last seriesMayBee70 nothing worse than watching stuff you don’t ‘get’.

MayBee70 Sun 27-Feb-22 22:29:07

….still don’t know what’s going on…

tanith Sun 27-Feb-22 20:17:29

Can't wait

MayBee70 Sun 27-Feb-22 20:11:19

Last series starts tonight. It will be painful watching it without Aunt Polly ( although I understand they are using some previous unseen footage of her to explain her absence). However I watched something on utube that explained what had happened over the previous seasons and realised that, even though I’ve always watched it I really haven’t had a clue what was going on. I wonder if I’ll be any the wiser at the end of this series?