gang Peaky Blinders It’s about to return to Netflix to say goodbye to viewers once and for all, with its sixth season hitting the platform on June 10. this the shelby brothers They leave traces of blood and murder behind them, but they also suffered great losses in their ranks during these years. Normal, because the list of enemies is getting longer. Tommy’s fans (Cillian Murphy) and his minions will certainly miss their confrontation in the aftermath, but these gangsters we’ve seen putting their laws on the streets have other options to mitigate their loss. birmingham in the first decades of the 20th century. Here we examine eight series reminiscent of ‘Peaky Blinders’. Some are old and have a certain retro feel and others are current, but they all overlap in having characters acting outside of the law.
1. ‘Gangs of London’
It’s not set in the 1920s and 1930s like ‘Peaky Blinders’, but ‘Gangs of London’ borrows a lot from the show. Steven Knight. More than anything, because there’s a family saga of the London underworld at work, and even the protagonist of one of the charismatic Tommy Shelby’s brothers: Joe ColeHe plays John, whose character was shot to death in the fourth season of the Netflix series . gives life here Sean WallaceA young man who takes over a criminal empire overnight after his father Finn is murdered (mean colm), a man who is feared by anyone who runs the business heavy. The revenge of Patrik’s death will always be in this series with colorful action scenes created by the creators. Gareth Evans. Appropriate starzplay.
2. ‘King of Warsaw’
They sold it as ‘Peaky Blinders’ dialect, so it’s clear he’s eager to imitate the Birmingham thugs. Based on the ‘bestseller’ of the same name Szczepan Twardochaction is found here Warsaw before the epidemic II. World War, in the 30s, when the mafia planted terror. A Jewish boxer, the right-hand man of a gangster with a socialist ideology perched in the Polish capital, aspires to his boss’s throne. can be seen in film.
3. The ‘Boardwalk Empire’
Martin Scorsese He produced and directed the first episode of this acclaimed five-season series set in the Americas of the 20s. dry law. Inspired by the work of the same name Nelson Johnsonis set Atlantic City (New Jersey, USA), the game’s city at the time, is the home of the mighty Enoch ‘Nucky’ Thompson (Steve Buscemi) sets the rules. Take the opportunity to introduce the historical mafia characters from those years. Lucky Luciano, Al Capone and Arnold Rothstein. Appropriate hbo max.
4. ‘Sopranos’
If there is a series of reference mafia, it is undoubtedly ‘The Sopranos’. your creator, David Chase (‘The Doctor in Alaska’) knew how to put a great twist of dark humor into the story of these outlaws. New Jersey. hero’s life Tony Soprano (unforgettable James Gandolfini), oscillates between murders, showdowns, illegal work, family commitments, and psychoanalyst visits, (Lorraine Braco), where he releases his frustrations and tension from stress. All six seasons can be seen hbo max.
5 ‘Gomorrah’
In the country where the mafia originated, a wonderful series about his dark work could not be missed. Robert Saviano He also screened his novel of the same name, inspired by real events, which leads two clans of the Neapolitan Camorra, who also controls drug trafficking, to the feud, betrayal, and revenge. It was so well documented and its success so brutal that it resulted in Saviano being sentenced to death. Clan Casale and forced exile.
6. ‘Tokyo Vice’
maybe japanese yakuza It has little to do with the Shelby brothers in ‘Peaky Blinders’ but uses the same methods to achieve their ends: extortion, violence and threats. Based on the journalist’s memoirs Jake AdelsteinSeries hbo max It’s about a novice American crime reporter’s immersion in the underworld in the 1990s. Tokyo To get a piece of news from Japan’s biggest newspaper that will impress their bosses. Although there he reached a milestone: becoming the first foreign journalist in their ranks. A fight between two gangs of the Japanese mafia will put him in serious danger.
7. The ‘Animal Kingdom’
Another from ‘Peaky Blinders’, Finn Cole (The Shelby brothers’ cousin and longing Aunt Polly’s son) stars in a story about shady deals in this series where the clan’s capo is a woman (Ellen Barkin). He plays a 17-year-old boy who, after losing his mother, moves to California (USA) with his overbearing grandmother and scheming uncles. But you will discover that your relatives are engaged in criminal activities. Series AMC.
8. ‘Taboo’
Creator of ‘Peaky Blinders’, Steven KnightAs the hero, he is also signing this series where the Shelby brothers sign one of their allies-rivals, Tom Hardy. In the most dreary atmosphere, at the beginning of London XIX centuryopens with the return of a tough guy who was left to die in Africa ten years ago in order to take over his recently deceased father’s business empire. The fiction mixes violence already prevalent in Knight’s work with certain supernatural elements.