To think I should be able to watch a show on the BBC on a Sunday night?

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I love Peaky Blinders I really do and I love Arthur. But last night I had to actually get up and leave the room when he was battering the Quaker guy.

It’s an exciting, stylish show; is there any actual need for it to be so gratuitously violent? Am I some kind of snowflake? Surely a skilled director can create an atmosphere of violence and fear without being so graphic?

Of course it’s not the only show like this. I just think we are all getting desensitised to this sort of nasty stuff. There’s no need for it. Who actually enjoys it?

Love Peaky Blinders but had to look away during that whole scene.

I agree, there are so many dramas I won't watch because of gratuitous violence. I am no snowflake, but I don't find it entertaining to watch people being beaten up

It would be interesting to have the vote thing up but not sure how to do it.

I agree op. I always look away during violent scenes, I don't need that in my life and find violence upsetting. I haven't seen last night's show yet. Seems to me that it's getting a bit style over substance anyway. We'll see.

Meh, I see worse at work

Good Lord. Can’t even imagine where you work Why. And if you are “Meh” about that level of violence in real life, then you do sound very desensitised.

I think you are given the type of show it is. It hasn't exactly been a non violent show from the get go and there was a specific warning about the violence beforehand, given the nature of the show I was expecting something particularly unpleasant throughout.

I understand about gratuitous violence but I don't think it was in this case.

@whybird

What on earth do you do???

I thought the violence was particularly unnecessary and unlikely last night, SPOILERS. The point being made that the victim was a gentle Quaker widower, Tommy giving far too much info to Arthur. Would anyone really be winding up their psycho brother like that in real life, or would you say nothing?

They just shoved it in there for the sake of it.

Isn't it a show about gangsters? Did you think they were going to sit barefoot in a circle and talk it out?

Arthur was wound up over Linda and Tommy needed him to go and resolve the Scotland situation. Arthur would not have been able to sort it out as his head was a mess over Linda. Tommy let him know the pertinent information about the Quaker so Arthur could go and get it out of his system and then go on to Scotland. So yes, he would have given him the information he needed as it suited him.

Linda would have been found eventually through the Quaker as "no one divorces a Shelby".

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I think that scene was a bit much as in it was unneccessary; Tommy knows what Arthur is like, while he was telling him, I was like ‘why Tommy why?’
In other gangster movies/shows the family usually end up offing the family psycho as they attract too much attention.
Also I’m really annoyed at the complete fantasy storyline with the Billy Boys, this gang did not go beyond Glasgow, I’m losing interest now, getting a bit ridiculous.

I thought the violence against Tommy served to demonstrate that being on the same side as the Shelbys is no guarantee of being safe from them. It was relevant in highlighting how utterly indiscriminate their violence is, and that Arthur probably has a screw loose and/or is an out and out psychopath.

Oh come on, it's Peaky Blinders! Arthur Shelby does NOT go up to people and say 'Excuse me old chap, stay away from my wife or I'll give you a bop on the nose'.

Well Arthur presumably has PTSD in some form due to the war.

Agree with Book. DH and were all “Ffs Tommy, just what do you think is going to happen here?” when he was telling Arthur. It didn’t even ting true for Tommy’s character to be so stupid.

We could have seen Arthur hit the guy, go psycho, cut away, and back to Arthur and the body. What does it serve to show it all blow by blow? Who enjoys seeing that?

You could not really see what he was doing.
I thought the hot tar bit was worse, but then i have never got over that scene in spooks

I think there has been worse violence depicted throughout the series to be honest.

With Tommy telling Arthur, this season shows him becoming more paranoid about losing his power and the lengths he will go to in order to protect it, you can see he is getting more ruthless and paranoid as the episodes go on. Presumably this is leading up to something drastic towards the end so we need to see the gradual progression otherwise we would all complain at the end that he would never do whatever it is he does because it would have come from nowhere. I think we are seeing the turn where the viewer starts to struggle with being on his side.

That’s interesting smiley, I think you are probably right.

Samcro I’m presuming you are a fan of Sons Of Anarchy, which is another show I love but can hardly bear to watch.

Peaky is on the Beeb though, I just think it’s too much.

How did yiu guess lol
I musr admit to suddenly finding the curtains interesting in the really violent bits.
But the scene your tallking about, i think they used camera angles to sortof suggest the violence. I think it was worse last week.

It’s been violent from the start so not a surprise

I think I must be unhinged because I didn't find it disturbing. I think they are portraying the likelihood of him having PTSD very well, and the actor himself is brilliant. I find myself feeling so sorry for him then I remember it's a TV show

Plus there has been worse violence in earlier series. It's a big part of the show.

I know I'll get laughed at but I hate sex scenes, I always feel like I need to leave the room and give them privacy. Even just people snogging I feel rude for watching I dunno where to look! I'm alright with violence though ha!

Isn't it a show about gangsters? Did you think they were going to sit barefoot in a circle and talk it out?

Can't really disagree.

Dear BBC,

I was watching a drama about extremely violent criminals, when out of the blue with no warning, there was a scene of extreme violence.

OP, how are you on chain saw massacres in the south west of the USA. If you're not keen, please avoid the Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

It was mostly shot in the dark so you didn’t see anything much but it was the emotion behind it for Arthur when he loses control

I didn’t feel that upset by it. I didn’t like it when they hung the boy on the cross last week more as the man was laughing. The Scottish guy is a bloody sicko

Thing is it is basically a gangster show. I don’t think you can avoid violence in it that is the premise of how the Shelby’s operate, their upbringing and the business they have created

I know I'll get laughed at but I hate sex scenes

I would laugh at you for that. However, if you came on here to say how you'd been made to feel uncomfortable whilst watching Erotic Swedish Nurses Go Wild In Bangkok, I'd kind of think maybe you shouldn't have watched it in the first place.