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Peaky Blinders, Season 4

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Peaky Blinders, Season 4

by Steven Knight (BBC, 2017)

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Season 4 contrives to relative flatness, squeezing the Shelby family apart and then together again to counter a mob vendetta that never really amounts to much (though there are some cleverly worked surprises and Adrien Brody does bring presence to Luca Changretta).

Peaky Blinders, Season 3

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Peaky Blinders, Season 3

by Steven Knight (BBC, 2016)

TV poster: “Peaky Blinders, Season 3” by Steven Knight (BBC, 2016)

Season 3 challenges the audience by exploring more seriously the moral double-standard to which the Peaky Blinders—and Thomas Shelby in particular—hold themselves. At its best in the scenes where Jewish gang leader Alfie Solomons (Tom Hardy) refuses to be cowed.