10 Problems Nobody Wants To Admit About Peaky Blinders
4. The Plot Has Become More And More Ludicrous Each Season
How is taking on everyone from the IRA to the Romanovs, the British Government, and the Italian Mafia, and Tommy Shelby still breathing afterwards even plausible?
Now in fairness, making use of the backdrop of British history and finding conflict and antagonists from its timeline to set the narrative focus for the show was a bold move, until the show ran out of ideas and had to literally shoehorn Al Capone's name into series 4.
That very well sums up just how dam far-fetched Peaky Blinders has become since it's first two excellent seasons, with the need now to tailor any and all events of the character's lives into the most dramatic points in British history to be the driving force behind the show and not the other way around.
What makes this even more ridiculous is that hardly anyone who watches the show would have had the first clue who the Peaky Blinders even were, so it wasn't necessary for the first season of the show to tailor them to any events that happened outside their own personal history which is what made them, and consequently the entire series, so popular in the first place.
After two seasons well-spent establishing the core characters, the show should have taken its foot off the gas before becoming a piece of revisionist history, and focussed instead on the characters who are more than interesting enough to fill out its short episode count.