‘Peaky Blinders’ Season 2 finale review

‘My name is Thomas Shelby, and today I’m going to kill a man’. No ‘Red Right Hand’ opener this week. Oh no, things are far too serious for that. Epsom Derby Day gallops towards us, and one way or another Tommy Shelby has to meet his fate with a gun. Like a man aware that … >

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‘Peaky Blinders’ Season 2 episode guide

Birmingham crime boss Thomas Shelby heads into perilous territory in the second season of Steven Knight’s gangster epic, Peaky Blinders. The cast includes Cillian Murphy (Inception), Helen McCrory (Harry Potter), Noah Taylor (Game of Thrones) and Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises). > Buy the complete Season 1-2 boxset on Amazon.   Episode 1 Thursday … >

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‘Peaky Blinders’ Season 2 Episode 5 review

Tommy Shelby is dead! No, no, not the one that looks like a skull stuffed into a gym sock. The goaty one. The ceremonial sacrificing of the four-legged ‘Tommy Shelby’ for Passover (seems to come earlier every year, dunnit?) is the red flag to signal a full-blown revolution against the Shelby clan’s power; a swift … >

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‘Peaky Blinders’ Season 2 Episode 4 review

An aura of doom hangs over Episode 4 of Peaky Blinders. Or rather, over the characters in it. As a one hour-sized middle finger to your peaceful Thursday night, this show is in rude health. It’s rare that drama can so successfully crash into your living room and tell you to fuck off without courting … >

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Win ‘Penny Dreadful’ on DVD and a bundle of classic books!

Sky Atlantic’s hit drama Penny Dreadful is available to buy on Blu-ray and DVD now. > Order Season 1 on DVD on Amazon. To celebrate the release, we’ve got Season 1 on DVD and sets of Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dracula books to give away to three of our Twitter followers! For … >

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‘Peaky Blinders’ Season 2 Episode 3 review

Testosterone wafts off Peaky Blinders like moisture evaporating off a stallion’s flanks on a frosty November morning. And that’s about as poetic as you can be talking about this show, especially this week. The horse theme might gallop through the entire episode, but so too does an over-reliance on violence and profanity. None of it … >

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‘Peaky Blinders’ Season 2 Episode 2 review

Let’s talk about sound design. Hey where are you- no no, please stay, it’ll be interesting, I promise. We take good sound design for granted. TV practically expects us to: awards for it are always briskly packed away in the ‘Earlier in tonight’s show…’ montages at the BAFTAs and Academy Awards. People only notice it … >

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‘Peaky Blinders’ Season 2 Episode 1 spoiler-free review

Watching the opener to Peaky Blinders’ second season is like swaggering back into your old home town. Just as the streets, the faces, and the noises of your old manor are all as vibrantly familiar and much more impressively dismal than you remembered, so there’s an identical sensation as you hear the ferric beat of … >

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10 things we learned about ‘Peaky Blinders’ Season 2 from our set visit

Peaky Blinders was without doubt one of the surprise packages of original British drama in 2013; a smouldering, gritty depiction of a 1920’s Birmingham back alley power struggle, boasting a Hollywood calibre cast and infused with a rousing rock-tinged soundtrack. It’s not a moment too soon then that we get set to welcome the arrival … >

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‘Peaky Blinders’ Season 2 launch trailer

BBC Two has released a new trailer for the second season of Peaky Blinders. Six new episodes will air on BBC Two this autumn, with The Dark Knight Rises star Tom Hardy joining the cast as “a charismatic leader who presents a unique opportunity to Tommy”. Other new cast members include Noah Taylor (Submarine) and … >

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