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― his LIPS !!! (darraghmac), Friday, 13 September 2013 08:48 (ten years ago) link
Have mostly been avoiding this cos it sounds like it's been named after a Babyshambles b-side
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Friday, 13 September 2013 08:49 (ten years ago) link
pro - always happy to hear West Midlands accents in non-comedy context; actually interesting choice of subject matter; not about a group of blue-collar workers who win the lottery
anti - trying to peg "hit American series" comparison on it; especially when the writing I saw was closer to How We Used To Live from 80s TV for schools; just show When the Boat Comes In again you bastards it pisses over everything you've commissioned in the last 20 years
― Cap'n Save-a-Co. (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 September 2013 08:54 (ten years ago) link
Not heard of When the Boat Comes In, it sounds like an early c20th version of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
― Neil S, Friday, 13 September 2013 09:01 (ten years ago) link
It climaxed at the Spanish Civil War and it featured endless brilliant class war zings so not quite but ballpark
― Cap'n Save-a-Co. (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 September 2013 09:22 (ten years ago) link
more like if Upstairs Downstairs had been written by old school Trade Union guys
― Cap'n Save-a-Co. (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 September 2013 09:45 (ten years ago) link
my father's a life-long Marxist and Upstairs Downstairs is his all-time favourite show, exposing the workings of the class system &c
― Neil S, Friday, 13 September 2013 09:47 (ten years ago) link
also itself a symptom of decadent bourgeois capitalism, of course
Upstairs Downstairs is pretty political and zingy itself, again it feels so much more ambitious than anything the Beeb try nowadays
― Cap'n Save-a-Co. (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 September 2013 09:49 (ten years ago) link
there was a remake recently wasn't there, which made Downton look like Battleship Potemkin iirc
― Neil S, Friday, 13 September 2013 10:21 (ten years ago) link
yeah i knew there was a remake but i figured it was safely ignored
― Cap'n Save-a-Co. (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 September 2013 10:31 (ten years ago) link
Fucking hell. Just watched this and agree with Dmac. Beeb "Just fill it up with bustling, over stylised sets and a couple of name actors. Fuck the writers".
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Friday, 13 September 2013 23:44 (ten years ago) link
Lol vindicated (phew)
― his LIPS !!! (darraghmac), Saturday, 14 September 2013 00:03 (ten years ago) link
cor... its the bleedin pleaky blinders... and theyve come to knick our shit
― AIDS (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 00:32 (ten years ago) link
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/real-peaky-blinders-pictures-unearthed-5903767
offence : 'plg bicycle' ??
― mark e, Sunday, 21 September 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
― AIDS (Hungry4Ass), Monday, March 10, 2014 7:32 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lmao yeh
― goole, Monday, 10 November 2014 05:38 (nine years ago) link
first 20mins are kinda ok
― goole, Monday, 10 November 2014 05:40 (nine years ago) link
music is way bad tho
― goole, Monday, 10 November 2014 05:42 (nine years ago) link
i associate it with that dapper laughs thing -- are they related?
― sarahell, Monday, 10 November 2014 07:04 (nine years ago) link
Just catching up with season 3 and it is SO BAD.
― chap, Thursday, 26 October 2017 00:35 (six years ago) link
Like maybe the most poorly written thing that's trying to be good I've ever sat through.
― chap, Thursday, 26 October 2017 00:36 (six years ago) link
this accent mangling shit
watched the first couple of episodes of this on netflix last night and my ulsterwoman missus was deeply and correctly offended by sam neill's horrifying belfast-by-way-of-auckland accent
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 7 January 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
I've noticed thia is really popular with people who should know better.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 January 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
weirdest part was that despite it having all the trappings of prestige tv there were less sets and exteriors than an average episode of corrie
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 7 January 2018 16:50 (six years ago) link
Season 4 was actually the best one to date - still not qualifying as good, but consistently entertaining and pacey.
― chap, Sunday, 7 January 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
billy kimber is boycie from only fools and horse’s dad inneehttp://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/resources/images/4377493/http://www.postavy.cz/foto/billy-kimber-foto.jpg
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 7 January 2018 19:53 (six years ago) link
final episode of the first season, cop tells criminal ‘you’re the same, you and i’fuck yeah
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 7 January 2018 21:40 (six years ago) link
gettin written up more in the US now
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 January 2018 01:06 (six years ago) link
A new low for this garbage!
― calzino, Monday, 8 January 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link
reviews this morning repeat 'the british boardwalk empire' so often it's almost as if they were regurgitating something they'd been told.
― his LIPS !!! (darraghmac), Friday, 13 September 2013 08:40 (four years ago) Bookmark
Apart from when they are trying to prop up Tory cunts, The BBC doing a fucking tobacco enema up their own fucking corpse is always the fucking 2nd worse thing.
― calzino, Monday, 8 January 2018 01:22 (six years ago) link
This seems to be a case of people paying attention to a mediocre show simply because it fits the mould of binge-watching boxset television, the format seems to be more important than the content tbh.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Monday, 8 January 2018 10:39 (six years ago) link
^^this is true
i was kinda intrigued when i first heard about it, because i almost always enjoy Cillian Murphy and Tom Hardy. but it seems kinda cheap and pointless to a degree. it feels like an alt-right fantasy, complete w/the haircuts and the key adversary in the first couple of seasons being an frustrated + sexually inadequate straight-arrow. maybe it gets better, idk.
― omar little, Monday, 8 January 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
i'm annoyed how it ruined a perfectly decent Nick Cave song for me.
― omar little, Monday, 8 January 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
i liked the first season quite a bit, second was less good but still ok iirc but I dropped out after that. Cillian Murphy's great, I don't think the show works at all without someone as magnetic as him in the lead. Sam Neil is fucking terrible and ruins almost every scene he's in. really it's a Godfather redux more than anything else, everything is about "family" which honestly I liked, it cuts against the lone anti-hero perspective of most prestige TV.
― evol j, Monday, 8 January 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
it’s competent pulp i guess (accents aside) but it’s frustrating how it ends up hinting at more interesting stories than it ends up delivering, at least in the first season i’ve seen so farlike, i’d be much more interested in seeing how aunt polly ran the family business during the great war, or a more nuanced exploration of the attraction of communism for war veterans
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 8 January 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
i love sam neill generally but his character exists to be the Waingro here, someone super horrible to make the peaky blinders look good in comparison. and it's a terrible role. i don't think the show is necessarily completely horrible, it's watchable enough. but it gave me the sons of anarchy vibe, like we're supposed to be extremely impressed by these MEN. it's better than SoA, though. maybe.
Helen McCrory is good xp
― omar little, Monday, 8 January 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
yeah, sam neill is doing his best but he’s not got much to work with, and it doesn’t help that he’s delivering his lines in an accent he hasn’t mastered
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 8 January 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
to put it kindly
I really don't miss Neill's character (spoilers I guess).
Helen McCrory is good
Poll is probably the best character.
― chap, Monday, 8 January 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
oi this is shite but i'm still watching it. just finished the third season which was shite.
lmao at the final scene: "you're going to prison, you're going to prison, you're all going to prison!" and everyone runs from the room yelling "fook you you fook!"
― omar little, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 23:59 (four years ago) link
Tommy Shelby's wife getting knocked off and immediately forgotten except as fuel for crazed sex with an insane russian duchess and to have a home for children named after her. also she was killed because his brothers are morons and he kinda let that slide.
paddy considine as the most evil priest ever and whose second job as a government agent made zero sense to me since it was never explained.
alexander siddig as the most saintly painter ever. i guess we've seen the last of him though.
however this season looked a lot better, a bit less cheap.
― omar little, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:03 (four years ago) link
ftr i no longer hold strong opinions on this show, which btw is now an anointed masterpiece acc to British entertainment press
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:08 (four years ago) link
oi this is shite but i'm still watching it.
Me too
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:45 (four years ago) link
I’m not sure how the peaky blinders have consolidated enough power to wind up headquartered in a gangland downton abbey, since their entire strategy seems to have been to enter rooms loudly and smash glasses and maybe slap a “fooker” across his “gob”.
― omar little, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
Who is more ridiculous as an Italian gangster, Noah Taylor or Adrien Brody? I can’t decide.
I don’t even know what Tom Hardy is doing.
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
The only “good, actually” scenes of S3 I think involved Hardy. The negotiation scene in his office and the very spittle-y confrontation scene in the final episode.
― omar little, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:57 (four years ago) link
I think him having seemingly wandered in from the revenant and just changing accents and outfits is a plus here, he’s the only performer who seems to be having a good time.
― omar little, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link
Sat through the latest season bascially because my OH fancies Cillian Murphy and it really is utter shit. Dimly lit long boring talky scenes interspersed with people walking in slow motion with like The Fratellis or something playing in the background.
― chap, Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
You could probably cut together a montage of all the scenes of the peaky blinders walking in slow motion through a smoky and/or fiery surrounding and it would be three hours long. Also the way they walk is a microcosm of the entire dumb show, it’s this real OTT idiot swagger.
― omar little, Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
I like Peaky Blinders.
― Cocteau Twinks (jed_), Sunday, 2 May 2021 00:38 (three years ago) link
Keep Steven Knight away from directing and showrunning, couldn’t finish this tbh and tried Rogue Heroes but ugh I was worn out after two episodes. His version of Great Expectations looks nightmarishly bad.
― AIDS (Hungry4Ass), Monday, March 10, 2014 5:32 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Think about this post a lot
― omar little, Friday, 24 March 2023 16:02 (one year ago) link
i have only heard the trailer for Great Expectations while listening to something on the radio and jfc why oh why
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 March 2023 16:45 (one year ago) link
https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a43396184/peaky-blinders-steven-knight-star-wars-movie/
― koogs, Friday, 24 March 2023 17:06 (one year ago) link