Honestly, I find that the first couple of seasons were much better than the later ones.
The “Tommy Shelby is more clever than what we’ve shown so far”-trope got a bit predictable around the 3rd season. I also found it much more interesting when they were a gang fighting for territory, who got in way over their heads by accidentally stealing from the army, rather than yet another show about powerful people scheming to come out even more on top.
I mean, it’s a good show, bordering on great, but I think the show ran longer than the initial idea/plan, and the writing shows it. I never bothered with the movie.
Agree with this 100%. I happened to binge watch the show, which also revealed it’s honestly pretty repetitive, and I kinda forced myself to see it through to the end (since I was watching it with a friend, otherwise I would’ve given it a break).
Biggest disappointment for me was that they had great opportunity to give it a fresh perspective
spoiler
When the other gangs appeared to be overwhelming them, and the whole family was considering fleeing, it would’ve been more interesting to see them have to swallow their pride and be forced to get a fresh start in the US, instead of just sending the one brother/half brother to set up the forced betrayal.
Instead, they just go through the motions of defeating all the gangs, but it just felt a bit stale by that point.
My exact same thoughts. The show was good when it was about the power struggles of a local gang and rising up to rule their territory. Once they started branching out and making the stakes bigger and bigger, quality dropped. At some point the dude was going into national issues. And they need to stop milking it with these spinoffs. It ran its course, let it die while it was still somewhat good.
Honestly, I find that the first couple of seasons were much better than the later ones.
The “Tommy Shelby is more clever than what we’ve shown so far”-trope got a bit predictable around the 3rd season. I also found it much more interesting when they were a gang fighting for territory, who got in way over their heads by accidentally stealing from the army, rather than yet another show about powerful people scheming to come out even more on top.
I mean, it’s a good show, bordering on great, but I think the show ran longer than the initial idea/plan, and the writing shows it. I never bothered with the movie.
I’ve tried to watch the movie 3 times now and I think I’m still on the first 1/4 of it. Gotta keep squeezing that blood from that stone I guess
Agree with this 100%. I happened to binge watch the show, which also revealed it’s honestly pretty repetitive, and I kinda forced myself to see it through to the end (since I was watching it with a friend, otherwise I would’ve given it a break).
Biggest disappointment for me was that they had great opportunity to give it a fresh perspective
spoiler
When the other gangs appeared to be overwhelming them, and the whole family was considering fleeing, it would’ve been more interesting to see them have to swallow their pride and be forced to get a fresh start in the US, instead of just sending the one brother/half brother to set up the forced betrayal.
Instead, they just go through the motions of defeating all the gangs, but it just felt a bit stale by that point.
My exact same thoughts. The show was good when it was about the power struggles of a local gang and rising up to rule their territory. Once they started branching out and making the stakes bigger and bigger, quality dropped. At some point the dude was going into national issues. And they need to stop milking it with these spinoffs. It ran its course, let it die while it was still somewhat good.