Heavy with style but lacking in substance. That's the sum of Peaky Blinders.
Peaky leans hard on slow motion shots and a modern punk/indie rock soundtrack that you'll either love or hate. I actually like the choice of music but how many times do we need to see someone walk past a fire breathing factory with a cigarette in hand and punk rock blaring in the background before some actual character development happens?
Cillian Murphy is excellent but aside from one or two other characters the rest of them are very one dimensional. You see all the faces in the background pic on this page? Less than half of those faces have any real narrative in the show. Because of this you are left with just a couple of prominent figures that tend to be overused
The story-lines are never all that compelling either unfortunately, style wins out here as well.
I thought the first season was decent and I was curious to see if they would improve for the second. When it was announced that Tom Hardy would be joining the cast I was pretty excited. Sadly his role isn't featured that much so his impact was minimal.
I see people trying to compare Peaky Blinders with Boardwalk Empire and I just don't see it, Boardwalk had compelling story-lines and an ensemble cast it actually used. Here's hoping season 3 will be different.
One of the worst episodes of South Park I've seen.
From all the things happening right now, the South Park creators make this a topic for an episode?
It's perhaps too US centric of an episode, Brett Favre is no one you could know in Europe unless you're into the NFL.
I had to google that guy and what it was about with Jenner and his clap. Uhhh, wow, big deal.
Additionally, there's seriously nothing funny about Cartman getting punched half dead by a grown man.
We all know South Park sometimes is very brutal and what a little bastard Cartman actually is, that he kind of had it coming the last 18 seasons but I didn't think it was done in a way that is tolerable or even justifiable. Nor did the episode made me chuckle even once.
I was bored throughout and I find political correctness, inclusional speech and "don't offend anyone" mentality incredibly exhausting and annoying, making that a topic as being a very forced thing (and therefore exclusional of its own) nowadays isn't bad of an idea but still exhausting. I was even disgusted at the Cartman scene, something I have never felt in any SP episode ever and there were incredibly crazy ones. Terrible start for this season.
