Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders. BBC
Thanksgiving is nearly upon us, and hey, since being kind of contrary is the American way, why not celebrate this most delicious of holidays by watching some of the best TV from the country so many of those early settlers were fleeing? Yes, everybody knows about Sherlock and The Office, but there’s a whole cornucopia of excellent and lesser-known British series ripe for the streaming on Netflix. Load them up any time you need to zone out during a food coma or ignore your loved ones while wearing headphones. Remember, you can always pretend you’re working!
Peaky Blinders
Let’s get the most awesome part out of the way first: In the post-World War I drama Peaky Blinders, Cillian Murphy plays a gangster who fights people with a pageboy hat lined with razor blades. While this makes him sound like a weaponized hipster, it’s also based on the urban legends surrounding the actual Peaky Blinders street gang—though they’re likely more fantasy than fact. Who cares! It’s a fun bit of comic-bookery in an otherwise gritty historical look at the conflicts between gangsters, Communists, and the IRA in early 20th century Birmingham. And to reiterate, Cillian Murphy fights people with a pageboy hat full of razor blades, which is just fantastic.
Watch this if you like: Boardwalk Empire, Deadwood
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