There are few places on the small screen where you’ll find actors of this calibre sparkling off one another.
Sam Neill, Helen McCrory, and Noah Taylor have all starred Paddy Considine joined the latest series as villainous priest Father Hughes Tom Hardy borrows his Ronnie Kray accent to play Jewish gang leader Alfie Solomons while Cillian Murphy, as gang leader Tommy Shelby, arguably gives the defining performance of his career to date.
It stars some of the finest actors working todayįor a midweek BBC Two television show, Peaky Blinders has a cast list more likely to be found on a film poster. With season 3 debuting to more gushing praise, Peaky Blinders can comfortably count itself among the golden age of television, alongside the likes of The Wire, Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos. The consensus is there: all three of its seasons have debuted to rave reviews – one critic called it “the most intelligent, stylish and engrossing BBC drama in ages” – with the show as a whole currently sitting at 86 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. There are few better reasons to watch a show than “because it’s good”. There are countless reasons why you should be watching – but here’s ten. Essentially a Brummie Boardwalk Empire, Steven Knight’s acclaimed period crime drama is one of gangsters and guns, family rivalries and flat caps, buzz cuts and black country accents. Are you watching Peaky Blinders? Television’s worst-kept secret concludes another blinding season this week.