Went downhill with the Adried Brody stuff, really awful, especially for an Italian wiever, as you had actual bilingual actors who spoke Italian correctly as well as english with an accent. Then you had Brody mumbling nonsene when he was speaking Italian...
Last season was good imho. Minus the cliffhanger.
It started going downhill with S3, but it was still watchable. Brody's Mafia Don was on the level of "mamma mia pasta de proposullo MARONNE COMMANDATORE arivederci". It was like watching Paulie in those episodes where the Sopranos Crew visits Italy. Not to mention the literal "oy guv, all this time I was in cahoots with me pal Al Capone" Deus Ex Machina which shows up in the literal last few minutes of the final episode. For me, S5 was the worst. Apart from demonizing Mosley, the kicker is that we're supposed to think that he's some unspeakable evil from the depths of Hell, while the murdering, thieving gangsters are somehow morally in the right. No, seriously. You kill, torture, maim, extort, but as a 1920s Working Class gangster, really, it's racism that concerns you. But it's racism against the blacks, specifically, that irks you. The Shelbys were racist against the Italians for the entirety of the show, not even allowing that guy to marry their literal whore, but racism against the blacks, now that's just a step too far! An amoral gangster has to have some standards! Tommy goes from threatening every single man who gets close to Ada to "ayigh luv, go have that racemixed baby out of wedlock, no problems 'ere". Then you have the Billy Boys who just show up from nowhere and... are there. Oh, and Alfie's now alive because... Hardy likes to mumble I suppose. TOMMEH passes on the Commie girl, the heiress girl, and gets with the literal whore. Said literal whore, alongside the rest of the useless hags, has the usual "gurl powah" moments, where they, too, walk down the street in slooooooooowwwwww mooooootiooooooooonnnn. And said hardened gangsters from the 20s just take the nagging and don't throw a slap because that'd make them unlikeable to the 20-50 female demographic. It's just... bad and inconsistent in every front.
I'm half expecting S6 to have TOMMEH start communicating with spirits while Mosley strolls down in full Wolfenstein garb and murders Ada's "golden Oscar" (t. Aunt Pol) baby. It ends with TOMMEH becoming Prime Minister, while S7 has him becoming King of Britain and pulling Excalibur out of the stone. But then Hitler attacks and S8 is a full out war between the Peaky FOKIN Blindahs with spirit powers, versus the Reich and its demon zombie robot army. Alfie is revealed as a descendant of MMMMMHHHHHHHH NOOTKA and we get a Taboo crossover. Idris Elba cameos as Comrade Stalin, complete with a heavy Russian accent, and saves the day. The final scene is TOMMEH as Emperor of Europe screaming with a gun to his head as Grace is revealed to be Lillith, the Mother of Demons. Then get ready for full memery in the spin-off; "Peaky Blinders: CyberPunk".
It's a live action cartoon at this point so I've stopped trying to apply logic to it. Who writes stuff like "there is God, and there are the Peaky Blinders" and thinks "alright, yeah, there's God, the Supreme Creator of the Omniverse, and then right bellow him there's this gang of drunks in London". Just enjoy the campyness and good cinematography.
It's honestly just a shame that there's not much good stuff currently airing (well, with Corona "currently" isn't an apt description, but you get my point). Westworld went to **** by S2, Perry Mason's just "eh", Billions is a parody of itself, and... I don't know, I've stopped keeping up with shows. The New Pope was the last thing to massively dissapoint me. I'm waiting for Barry and Succession to come back on.
