On Boardwalk Empire, it's Nucky Thompson ( Steve Buscemi), the biggest bootlegger in Atlantic City, New Jersey. They're both set in the 1920s and early 1930s and follow the business and personal battles of the leader of an organized crime family in a city that exists in the shadow of a bigger city. They're almost like cousins, one in the old country and one in America. There's no show more like Peaky Blinders than Boardwalk Empire, HBO's epic historical crime drama (except for maybe one, which we'll get to in a moment). If you're a fan of Peaky Blinders, you'll enjoy these other period crime dramas, shows about gang conflicts and crime families, and shows with Peaky Blinders cast members, including the inimitable Tom Hardy. The final season is driven by Tommy's nephew Michael Gray's ( Finn Cole) quest for revenge for Tommy's role in the death of his mother, Polly Gray (the late Helen McCrory), against the backdrop of the repeal of Prohibition in the United States. Throughout the show, Tommy and his family members fight and/or form alliances with other ethnic gangs, trade unionists, the police, and each other, while navigating the cultural tumult of the 1920s. Tommy wants the family to go legit, but it's hard to escape the life when you're born into it and the world conspires to keep you a criminal. Peaky Blinders is set in the gritty industrial city of Birmingham, England, after World War I, and follows Tommy Shelby (Murphy), a laconic war veteran and leader of the eponymous gang, which consists of his family members and is named for the razor blades they keep in their hat brims.
#Second life of a gangster movie
Now you want more, and though a wrap-up movie from creator Steven Knight is reportedly in the works, it will be a long time until we see more of Tommy Shelby. You did the Oppenheimer leg of Barbenheimer, so you went out and looked for more of Cillian Murphy's work, resulting in a full binge of every episode of Peaky Blinders, the excellent British crime drama that ran for almost 10 years and concluded in 2022.
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