Peaky Blinders

[discokermit]

Nice try, but most of the location stuff was shot in Liverpool.

the scene where the copper rides into town, with the shagging in the streets, fighting, drunks rolling round, vomiting and kids throwing bricks, the carriage was cgi'd onto documentary footage of broad st. on a saturday night.

 

[discokermit]

the canalside execution looks like it was filmed at the black country museum.

 

[discokermit]

Slade

slade aren't brummies.

 

[discokermit]

i thought the program was brilliant.

except for helen mcrory.

the accents were pretty good, on the whole. the lad with the toothpick was the best.

funny to think that my great granddad, who'd fought in the trenches from the beginning of the war to the end, was working the canals delivering steel from bilston to brum at the time this is set.

 

[bi0boy]

whoosh

 

[discokermit]

turns out some of it was filmed at the black country museum and my dad knows one of the actors!

 

[discokermit]

my goodness I never realised how lawless it was in the late 1800's

the series is set in 1919.
there was a riot in bilston in 1919 when a copper struck an ex serviceman, leading to the police barricading themselves in the station, which luckily for them was the only one in the country with a dry moat.

interesting how the writer has hinted at that sort of sentiment with tommy shelby's comment about the copper being in a reserved occupation.

i really think this has a lot of depth to it.

 

[JimW]

Only bit that jarred for me was the modern incidental music, didn't think that worked but not so bad it spoiled anything. New season of Boardwalk Empire just started up again recently and you can see the difference in budget between two dramas set around the same period. Will def keep watching.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Watching it now on iplayer. Some pretty shoddy accents going on here.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

And Benjamin Zephaniah isn't manic enough to pull off the street-preacher part.

 

[Plumdaff]

slade aren't brummies.

That's my point.

 

[Chick Webb]

Only bit that jarred for me was the modern incidental music, didn't think that worked but not so bad it spoiled anything.

On the one hand I did like the music, and thought it worked in the various scenes, but I also found there to be a bit too much of it, and a bit too loud. With telly lately sometimes I feel like people are trying to make a music video when they're actually supposed to be making a tv program. But I think that's more to do the fact that I watch very little telly and aren't up with the current styles than anything else.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

BBC article on the real Peaky Blinders gang:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-24047750

 

[magneze]

Going to watch this tonight on catchup.

 

[seeformiles]

Sam O Neill's Ulster I think is excellent,

Sorry - his accent was all over the bloody place veering from North to south, to Australia and back again! It wasn't quite as bad as Dick Van Dyke's S.African Cockney but it still ranks alongside Richard Gere's effort. I was out last night but Mrs SFM recorded it so I could hear it in all its ragged glory when I returned.

 

[blossie33]

the series is set in 1919.
there was a riot in bilston in 1919 when a copper struck an ex serviceman, leading to the police barricading themselves in the station, which luckily for them was the only one in the country with a dry moat.

interesting how the writer has hinted at that sort of sentiment with tommy shelby's comment about the copper being in a reserved occupation.

i really think this has a lot of depth to it.

Yes, I knew when the series was set. I was refering to the gangs in Birmingham which actually started in the late 1800's.

Not seen the programme yet, will watch it on iPlayer over the weekend.

 

[Plumdaff]

Sorry - his accent was all over the bloody place veering from North to south, to Australia and back again! It wasn't quite as bad as Dick Van Dyke's S.African Cockney but it still ranks alongside Richard Gere's effort. I was out last night but Mrs SFM recorded it so I could hear it in all its ragged glory when I returned.

Very happy to defer to those who know better . I DO know about West Midlands accents though

 

[blossie33]

Reference to peaky blinders from 1895

 

[seeformiles]

Very happy to defer to those who know better . I DO know about West Midlands accents though

W.Midlands not my area of expertise I'm afraid - but I can spot a dodgy Irish accent at 40 paces

 

[bi0boy]

The Beeb seem to be going all "must be as grim as possible" with their period dramas of late, probably in an ill-conceived reaction to Downton Abbey. Doesn't really work for me though. I didn't see any likeable characters in this yet for example, which kind of creates a sense of disinterest.

 

[Sprocket.]

Wasn't Sam O'Neil born in Northern Ireland, his da was serving in the New Zealand armed forces an stationed there?

 

[discokermit]

the spit in the spitoons wasn't thick enough.

 

[Onket]

the spit in the spitoons wasn't thick enough.

And she tipped half of the 2nd one over the floor. Lack of concentration. Shouldn't have been warbling at the same time.

 

[trabuquera]

The Beeb seem to be going all "must be as grim as possible" with their period dramas of late, probably in an ill-conceived reaction to Downton Abbey. Doesn't really work for me though. I didn't see any likeable characters in this yet for example, which kind of creates a sense of disinterest.

pfft - BBC misery is piffling compared to the hardcore depression induced by Channel 4 drama this year .... Southgate? Run? Top Boy? The Mill?. Except maybe The Village which was BBC and was so depressing-looking I didn't even give it a chance.

It's definitely the trend this year all around, isn't it? Give 'em some grim. Everyone loves grim. it's always so respected and award-winning. Either that or a period or modern romp with snuff porn and sex killings. Lovely!

 

[tony.c]

And she tipped half of the 2nd one over the floor. Lack of concentration. Shouldn't have been warbling at the same time.

And she's a police plant, obviously not much good at multi-tasking.

 

[Limerick Red]

And she's a police plant, obviously not much good at multi-tasking.

If its true to life, she will probably knock up half the peaky blinders in an attempt to keep her cover.

 

[tony.c]

But the Belfast OB is trying to recruit the peaky blinders as informants against the Fenians and the Communists. She'll have to shag them too.

 

[Limerick Red]

But the Belfast OB is trying to recruit the peaky blinders as informants against the Fenians and the Communists. She'll have to shag them too.

lie back and think of...eh...the union.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

A pop quiz for people here regarding the brummy accent. Just to try and gauge what peoples perceptions are. How would you say that a person from Birmingham would pronounce the following lines:

1. In half an hour it will be half past three.
2. I can tell you've been drinking because I can smell it on your breath.
3. My teeth fell out because I didn't brush them with a toothbrush.

 

[Pickman's model]

A pop quiz for people here regarding the brummy accent. Just to try and gauge what peoples perceptions are. How would you say that a person from Birmingham would pronounce the following lines:

1. In half an hour it will be half past three.
2. I can tell you've been drinking because I can smell it on your breath.
3. My teeth fell out because I didn't brush them with a toothbrush.

a bit like paul mccartney but without the energy and enthusiasm.