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Peaky Blinders Series Four

Graham Craycraft Peaky Blinders is a British television series accompanied with Netflix for view in America and throughout the rest of the world. In its fourth series (British for season in case there was any confusion) Thomas Shelby, played by Cillian Murphy, and family take on a whole new set of trials. For those who have seen the previous three series, this is well put together. I don't want to have any spoilers so I will touch on the first three series and the stylistic points of the fourth.  Personally, the first series/season was outstanding at setting up the post World War I Birmingham gang in a gritty thought provoking, but action packed series. By the first episode I knew there was something here, and by the second, I knew I was going to love it. Up there with drama series Sopranos and Breaking Bad, Peaky Blinders had a definite vibe that series creator and writer Steven Knight built along with his directors and directors of photography. The third series left a muddy t...