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tropit
Started watching, "Peaky Blinders," and got hooked. It has such an odd title; you'd never know what it's about. I see the show as a cross between, "The Godfather," and "Downton Abbey." Love it!
according to my son, who's a bit of an information nerd, there really were Romany gangs in industrial English cities like Birmingham, etc at turn of century and between the wars, and they really did use their peaked caps (hence the name) with bits of glass sewn in the fronts (cause razors were still straight edges at that time ) to use as weapons.
But seriously, any show with Cillian Murphy and "those eyes!" , right?
Another show we are catching on PBS is Miss Scarlet and the Duke--it's set about the same time frame and we really like it too.