Series Review: 'Peaky Blinders' S4 is effing brilliant
The period gangster drama that keeps you off balance with its approach and surprising stars is lighting up screens again - and season four won't disappoint
It's that time of the year and, no, I'm not talking about flashing lights, tinsel and the dulcet tones of Bing Crosby and Dean Martin crooning platitudes about Santa. I'm talking about the time of year when for six intense but exhilarating weeks the television universe becomes firmly the property of the Peaky Blinders.
We're four episodes in but nothing quite encapsulates the pleasures of Steven Knight's historical but not quite historically accurate show as the final minutes of the second episode of season four.
A bristling, smirking, neck-tattooed, immaculately dressed Adrien Brody walks into the offices of a steely blue-eyed, high-cheek-boned Cillian Murphy and in his best Marlon-Brando-as-Vito-Corleone impression delivers a lesson about suits and the men who make them...
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