Paul Tallon

I am a huge Peaky Blinders fan and was very interested in this show. I watched 4 episodes and I'd rather be forced into an isolated room for an hour a day with nothing but my own insecurities than go through it again. The lighting is bad a lot of the times. It drowns out characters features and makes everything look flat like they ran this through an instagram filter before sending it off. The music they chose to play, pretty much consistently through every episode, just breaks the immersion entirely. It is so out of place, so far from what is happening, it doesn't actually help anything in the show but reminds me of when we all had edgy songs playing on our Myspace profiles. If you've never really understood how music, tones, and sounds can affect the quality of a show, this is a great case to study of how to defecate on everything using it. The accents are just awful. I'm actually impressed with how bad they are and this was still given the okay. It's like watching Kevin Costner in Robin Hood all over again. All these 5 stars reviews saying "breath of fresh air and amazing acting" have to be bots or maybe grew up in a cult setting where they could only watch Avatar the Last Airbender live action over and over again. This show isn't fresh, it's rot. It very much tries to use everything Peaky Blinders did well but does as if the older, successful brother was forced to let the younger, unemployed, talentless, lonely, little brother be involved in show because his parents can't stand his crippling depression allowing him to shower once every 2 weeks. I also did not care about any of the characters. There is nothing there for me to connect with, or even want to listen to what they have to say for the most part. Just the standard injection of modern day millennial LA socialization and standards cosplaying as character depth. You can tell how fake these other people are by the way with their pull to emotional appeal giving this show perfect ratings and praise without any actual explanation other than "they are excellent, they are brilliant, it's amazing, genius soundtrack, powerful on all levels, fantastic, best series ever, gripping, season 2 CAN'T WAIT" You all see the pattern here ?