Sherlock is not yet another Sherlock Holmes brand rip-off. Sherlock CREATOR: Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat CAST: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman & Rupert Graves
The main attraction luring me in to watch this show was its creator Steven Knight, the writer of Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises (2007) about Russian gangsters. Peaky Blinders is about a local Birmingham Irish gang run by the Shelby family (one of the brothers is played by the terrific Cillian Murphy) who were controlling the city with relative ease until a new Chief of police is installed, who is not afraid to fight back. The story and the setting are incredible, so there is a lot there to be developed. Season 2 is up for release in 2014, and it would not surprise me if the show will really pick up from there. That being said, I did really enjoy this classic more slow-paced British gangster series, and seeing that it only has six episodes in the first season of the mini-series, you can understand that it did not hit as hard as a Boardwalk Empire.
Simply put, it does not quite live up to its promise of becoming the ‘Brummy’ version of the American Boardwalk Empire. Peaky Blinders CREATOR: Steven Knight CAST: Cillian Murphy, Paul Anderson & Helen McCroryīBC made something special, but despite that it looks terrific, and really takes you back to the Birmingham just after World War 1, it is also a bit clumsy and messy at times.