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Good isn't it?
Admittedly I'm a bit late to the party and only started watching it last week when I just picked up the DVD of the first series on a whim. I hear Tom Hardy is in the current new series.
Up to episode 4 so far, really enjoying it although some of the Birmingham accents are a little off.
I'm in the same boat but now onto the final episode of Season 1. Brilliant TV but yes, accents are a little out. Irish accents too. Just hoping they release season 2 on dvd soon as I've not watched any of that and it's not available for download on iPlayer anymore.
it's not available for download on iPlayer anymore
You can stream Episode 1 and 2 (you can't download them, don't know why they do this) and download 3 of the new series.
I've quite enjoyed it.
Good article on the accent here
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29307916 ]Brummie accent[/url]
Second series has been more absorbing than the first, so far.
Tom Hardy is almost a caricature, but he's so scary, it works.
(Still can't believe I'm the only person who has watched [b]Gomorrah[/b]! Season finale had me hiding behind the sofa yesterday. Best series ever. Yes. Yes, it is)
The main man getting some posh totty is the worst cliche 🙄
Mindless but fun
Tom Hardy is ridiculous/brilliant same for Sam Neill
I spent a whole day in Manchester as an extra filming the horse auction scene. Also had to go up the week before for a costume fitting. I was given "the haircut" too.
I watched last Thursday and I was on screen for almost half a second 😕
But it was a good experience. Cillian Murphy and the other Peaky Blinders stayed in character all day. Normally, between takes there's a bit of chat and banter, but not these guys.
what pigface said
As a Brummie, I am hooked but don't know why. Watch it but have little or no idea about what is going on - is there a plot?
great show.
Up to episode 5 in season 1 and pretty hooked.
Lived in Brum for 7 years and know Small Heath/Digbeth quite well so was looking forward to spotting locations but it turns out most of the city scenes were filmed in Toxteth.
Accents are a bit strange but smashing Telly from a time and place that isn't often covered in period dramas.
Mrs Digga and I really don't 'do' telly much, but we caught a snippet of the first episode of season two and we're hooked. Like others on here, we borrowed a DVD of the first season and got ourselves quickly up to speed.
There are some stellar performances in there - not just Hardy's immense Jewish-Cockney thug - and most of them are having a good bash at the local accents. They even had a decent stab at Black Country.
A few lessons from Aynuk & Ayli wouldn't go amiss though: http://www.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/joke-of-the-week
I reckon this will be ranked up there with shows like The Sopranos and The Wire.
Peaky Blinders is fab - script, acting, music (and accents!)
I love it
They need a good Brummie joke (it needs the lovely accent BTW)
What's the difference between a buffalo and a bison?
but it turns out most of the city scenes were filmed in Toxteth.
I thought most of it was filmed in the Black Country museum??
Edit: Turns out Liverpool was used a lot!! You live and learn 🙂
Peaky Blinders is fab - script, acting, music (and accents!)
...and extras!
I can't watch it. The accents are too far off and I find them irritating to listen to.
Shame, what little I've seen of it looks excellent otherwise.
(I like Brummie/ Black Country etc accents)
I love it! Best drama I've seen in ages.
The accents are certainly better than in the first series, but there's still some work to do. 😉
I find it hard to think of it being set in Brum though, when a lot of it is filmed at the Black Country Museum which is about a mile from my house.
I still consider myself a Brummie (I was born in Edgbaston) but I live in the Black Country now.
No takers but here's the punchline nevertheless
(In a Brummie accent)
"You can't wash your face in a buffalo."
IGMC
Loved the first series (Season? ffs). Nick Cave and PJ Harvey soundtrack, what's not to like?
Accents might be a bit off, but that's a very good thing, a proper brummie accent is flipping horrid to listen to! 😆
Oi bin fishin in the cut and caught a whale...a boycycle whale
Old mans a yam yam, he thinks the accents are pretty good but not always perfect.
I started to watch it tonight after reading this. Apart from the shit accents (how can they not find actors capable of doing a Brummie accent?) it's a bit rubbish. Does it pick up? Only watched 1 episode so far.
Enjoyed it since the first series.Some great acting and cinematography. Music has been pretty ripper as well.
Think it is great though people have picked out a few faults but I think they have done a fab job.
I know people have picked up on the accents, particularly the Brummie one though I wonder how different it would be from the present day to nearly 100 years ago.
Having Gypsy heritage I'm pretty interested in how its portrayed by the main characters. Found the times when they are speaking Romany hard to discern. Infact it sounded more eastern european romani than anglo-romanes as to what they should have been speaking.
Hoping for more stuff on bare knuckle fighting in the future.
Well being a Wolverhampton man I initially thought the accents were way off the mark but actually on reflection, I think they have just been done with more subtlety (respectfully?) rather than the caricature like overtly broad 'don't they sound thick' accents that brummies are usually portrayed as having.
A couple of them just don't get it right at all but for the most part they are well done.
I think It's ace , easily the best Uk drama this year also Is It wrong to fancy Aunt Polly. ?
A future classic. Looks and sounds stunning on a relatively (compared to the US stuff it's competing with) low budget.
I started to watch it tonight after reading this. Apart from the shit accents (how can they not find actors capable of doing a Brummie accent?) it's a bit rubbish. Does it pick up? Only watched 1 episode so far.
Being able to mimic an accent does not mean someone is a good actor, and a good actor isn't always a good mimic.
As pointed out by a couple of people, accents change over the years, are there any recordings of the local accents from a hundred years ago? Plus it's better to understate rather than overstate, thus risking caricature; the 'local yokel' syndrome which is sadly all too prevalent in tv drama.
Love it. Series one was excellent, loads of intrigue and twisty plot, Murphy's character playing off the copper nicely. The canal side wharfe you see occasionally looks to have been created from pictures of Gas Street Basin. My mother painted it in the late thirties/early 40s and the picture hangs on her lounge wall, with the wooden beamed shed and brick hinterland very much the same as the backdrop.
As a Brummie I wince a bit at accents, having spent my early life listening to people from Stechford, Small Heath and so on, but they give it a good enough go without resorting to Timothy Spall's Auf Wiedersehn type stereotype. Funny bit last episode was listening to them differentiating between Brummie and Black Country.
Just found that it's on US Netflix so will be catching up soon.
Big John. How did you get to be an extra. Pretty interested in doing that for the next series.
Without giving away any Spoilers the final episode was amazing , Roll on season 3 .
Loving it so far, but only started watching it a few episodes ago. Regarding the accents, I think they are not that bad - lived in Brum for 6 yrs and starting to pick up a twang myself. Having said that my eldest is three and have no idea what he is on about half the time !
May or Grace . ? That is the question.
Grace by quite a distance.
Old Tommy was a bit lucky tonight.
Posh totty.....
posh, all the way to Fortnums.
Violent stylised gangster nonsense with a vast array of dodgy accents. Series 2 features Tom Hardy overacting even more than usual.
It's ace!
bizarre thread resurrection as a first forum post by nibbio?
indeed. production co astro turf? DVD boxed set release coming up?
I thought this was going to be a PSA about series 3.
Just finished series 2 in our house and we are on standby for news about the S3 air date.