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Peaky Blinders
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Episode #1.1

  • Episode aired Sep 30, 2014
  • TV-MATV-MA
  • 58m
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8.0/10
11K
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Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders (2013)
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Thomas Shelby plans to fix a horse race; some guns turn up stolen.Thomas Shelby plans to fix a horse race; some guns turn up stolen.Thomas Shelby plans to fix a horse race; some guns turn up stolen.
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    • Director
      • Otto Bathurst
    • Writer
      • Steven Knight
    • Stars
      • Lobo Chan
      • Cillian Murphy
      • Benjamin Zephaniah
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    • Director
      • Otto Bathurst
    • Writer
      • Steven Knight
    • Stars
      • Lobo Chan
      • Cillian Murphy
      • Benjamin Zephaniah
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    • 16User reviews
    • 27Critic reviews
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    Lobo Chan
    Lobo Chan
    • Mr. Zhang
    Cillian Murphy
    Cillian Murphy
    • Thomas Shelby
    Benjamin Zephaniah
    Benjamin Zephaniah
    • Jeremiah Jesus
    Alfie Evans-Meese
    • Finn Shelby
    Joe Cole
    Joe Cole
    • John Shelby
    Paul Anderson
    Paul Anderson
    • Arthur Shelby
    Sam Neill
    Sam Neill
    • Inspector Chester Campbell
    Iddo Goldberg
    Iddo Goldberg
    • Freddie Thorne
    Neil Bell
    Neil Bell
    • Harry Fenton
    Samuel Edward-Cook
    Samuel Edward-Cook
    • Danny Whizz-Bang
    Helen McCrory
    Helen McCrory
    • Polly Gray
    Sophie Rundle
    Sophie Rundle
    • Ada Shelby
    Ned Dennehy
    Ned Dennehy
    • Charlie Strong
    Ian Peck
    • Curly
    Tony Pitts
    Tony Pitts
    • Sergeant Moss
    Annabelle Wallis
    Annabelle Wallis
    • Grace Burgess
    Andy Nyman
    Andy Nyman
    • Winston Churchill
    Lee Bolton
    • Special Policeman
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Otto Bathurst
    • Writer
      • Steven Knight
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    • Trivia
      The soundtrack of the movie "Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" was used towards the end of the episode
    • Goofs
      In the opening scene on the train with Inspector Campbell, he's looking over Arthur Shelby's rap-sheet the year is 1919. Arthur is charged as a racketeer, but the term racketeer was first introduced in 1925, in the U.S.
    • Quotes

      Aunt Polly: This family does everything open. You've nothing more to say to this meeting, Thomas?

      Tommy Shelby: No, nothing that's women's business.

      Aunt Polly: This whole bloody enterprise was women's business while you boys were away at war. What's changed?

      Tommy Shelby: We came back.

    • Soundtracks
      Carrickfergus
      (uncredited)

      Traditional

      Performed by Annabelle Wallis

      [Grace sings while cleaning up in the pub]

    User reviews16

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    4/10
    "Peaky Blinders" has just 'de-peaked' my interest
    I heard this show was really good, so I tried it. After watching the pilot, I don't have any interest in watching anymore. Very derivative, with uninteresting characters and plot. The biggest problem I have with it is that it is so incredibly pretentious; it is trying so hard to be as good as an HBO show, that it makes me hate it even more. It's pretentious because random creative decisions are made for the sake of them being 'cool'. It feels like the filmmakers behind it just saw a bunch of really good shows, picked out things they liked and slapped it altogether to create this.

    • every scene ends and/or begins with electric guitar in the tune of westerns, then fades out after 10 seconds. It sounds cool, but doesn't fit
    • first scene is especially weak, given that it sort of 'homages' westerns (music + everyone hiding behind things + character on a horse, walking slowly down a street). I expected the show to be sort of satirical then. Except the show isn't, which makes me think it basically ripped it off because the filmmakers thought it looked and sounded cool. They didn't understand that this cliché has become so iconic that it can only be used for satire nowadays.
    • no character development or clichéd character development. I can't tell you a single interesting or unique thing about any of the characters.
    • cinematography, while pretty at first glance, comes off as very random. Sometimes there are inserts of a character we haven't even been introduced to yet, looking at another character for up to 10 seconds, while that other character is talking. Lots of reaction shots-especially annoying cliché of character smirking at something that another character says, in order to try and make the audience laugh. Same use as a laugh track in sitcoms: doing the laughing for the audience, at a 'joke' that isn't usually even funny. 2-3 insert shots of things in reflection off surfaces (random).
    • scene of Sam Neill coming into the town by carriage has been in about a hundred other movies/tv shows


    I could go on forever...
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    • Feb 28, 2018

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    • Release date
      • September 30, 2014 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Black Country Museum, Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Peaky Blinders Productions
      • Yorkshire Content Fund
      • Caryn Mandabach Productions
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    • Runtime
      58 minutes
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