Don’t be like Peaky Blinders? Why? Why Peaky Blinders are so Popular?

Deepak Gupta
4 min readDec 28, 2021

Peaky Blinders, the characters that everyone wants to be in real life like the Walter White of Breaking Bad or Professor of Money heist, but these series’ are so intense, deep, and unimaginable that the viewers only want to watch and forget as soon as possible. Personally, I watched all the seasons of Peaky Blinders and all I can say, the tale has deep classical emotions, brothers bonding, family expectations, group charm, great sense of dressing, young and old themes and an unending thrilling heart wrenching experience. The style of Cillian Murphy has made many people mad to become classic like him and we can’t deny the fact, the Strom has become high with every season and become a most loved series after Breaking Bad. With the airing of first episode on 12th September 2013, Peaky Blinders show created strong effect on audience and the desire to become classic like Thomas Shelby but please don’t be like it, here’s the reasons, why? him

1. Strong but Bad Characters

Yes, there’s no doubt actors, directors, and writers played them great, but the characters we all love are actually bad if we find them in real life. These characters are loved because of their unpredictable nature and badass acting. Writers wrote strong characters with what everyone wants to become but aren’t really acceptable in our society. So, there’s a big No when it comes to accepting these characters in real life. The audience was influenced by the classic style, unexpected moves, and classic theme but when the series come to adaption in real life, it failed because no one accept such characters in real life. It’s fun to watch only and not to become like him.

2. Bad Characters with Good Intentions

In reality, these characters are bad but with good intentions. Now, the audience gets confused whether to love them for what they actually want or hate them for what ways they adopt to get these intentions. The actors played a tremendous role and that’s why it’s being loved. Remember, no one is completely good. The good are the ones that are actually less bad.

3. Emotional Attachment

Audiences are emotionally attached when the characters don’t achieve their good intentions but forget they all were doing bad, and when they die, people get emotionally attached for what they wanted. Good intentions with bad ways are actually bad in real life but people see it good on screen. Thomas shelby always wanted to become badass gangster of the town where he killed many of the characters even his family members but all sympathy went to him even all he did was entirely a crime. The confusion in between the scenes created an emotional attachment with the characters.

4. Great dialogues

These series’ have great dialogues and quotations that impact the mind of the audience in a blink, and people try to imitate such acts in real life, which is really a bad idea. Thomas shelby, Polley Grey, Arthur and even John delivered extensive deep quotations in form of dialogue which are true in some extent but when we try to copy such quotes in real life, we fail greatly.

Final Verdict!

Peaky Blinders and such series are great fiction to watch, enjoy and learn to know what we shouldn’t do. In the 21st century, where great script writers are creating confusions to win the hearts of audience. Also, if you are looking for best series, you can watch, The Prison Break, Stranger things, 13 Reasons why, The Walking Dead and even the sacred games if you are an Indian series lover. Also, we all love Breaking Bad and we all accept it.

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Deepak Gupta

Deepak Gupta is pre-eminently known for writing plain sailing, meticulous, and pragmatic Self-Help books. He’s the author of more than forty books.