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.
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Peaky Blinders, Season 2
Peaky Blinders, Season 2 (BBC, 2014) Guilty pleasure crime drama. Thomas Shelby is one of television’s more compelling anti-heroes, acting without compunction (and meeting with numerous reversals across the course of six episodes) yet adhering to a personal code that raises him above both rivals and the authorities.