sneakaprince
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Definitely won't be watching season 2. This show sucked.
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Definitely won't be watching season 2. This show sucked.
Yall just doing that thing where you compare two British shows just cuz they're British. Let it be a focus on as broad a thing as a show about ambition.
Breaking Bad is a better show about ambition than Taboo and Peaky Blinders.
Nevermind Taboo is only 8 eps, 1 season in.
Steven Knight (born 1959) is a British screenwriter and film director. He read English at University College London (UCL). Knight has written the screenplays for the films Closed Circuit, Dirty Pretty Things and Eastern Promises, and also directed as well as written the films Locke and Hummingbird (a.k.a. Redemption). Knight is also one of three creators of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, a game show that has been remade and aired in around 160 countries worldwide, and has written for BBC's Commercial Breakdown, The Detectives , Peaky Blinders and Taboo.
Comparing the two cuz of the creator makes more sense than trying to say both shows are about ambition but it's not like Knight is the sole creator. Whole series is based off Tom and his father's ideas.
That ambition focus is vague as ****. Its two different shows as far as I'm concerned.
Taboo involved revenge among other things in the first 8 eps.
Your like over one over another given one is multiple seasons in simply isn't a fair comparison.
I'm not denying that Knight wrote the eps or is a co-creator.Comparing the two cuz of the creator makes more sense than trying to say both shows are about ambition but it's not like Knight is the sole creator. Whole series is based off Tom and his father's ideas.
That ambition focus is vague as ****. Its two different shows as far as I'm concerned.
Taboo involved revenge among other things in the first 8 eps.
Your like over one over another given one is multiple seasons in simply isn't a fair comparison.
They were based on the Hardy's family ideas but Knight wrote, or co-wrote, the scripts for the entire season.
I replied that way cuz of how your post read. We talking about Taboo. I reply to you saying the story was meaningless and asking what the conflict was and then you say you used the wrong words and then come with it's not griping and its a show about ambition and Peaky Blinders did it better.-I guess we are past the "y'all just doing it cause they are British" stuff
You kind of explain yourself here why you jumped the gun on arguing from the stance that Taboo is a show about ambition, namely James Delaney ambitions.-Peaky Blinders and Taboo are different shows but they are British period pieces where their main character's ambition drives the story. Tommy Shelby is a low level bookie that wants to control house racing markets, it seems silly on the surface, but the more you watch the more nuanced the story gets and you see where that ambition comes form.
James Delaney wants what? A monopoly on a trading business, fine, but why? The seems to be like no other deeper motivation, nothing deeper to grip you. They tell this grand tale but at the end of the day, all James Delaney wants is not want to sign a piece of paper.
Nah, defintely nothing with who killed his dad. From watching the series it's pretty clear James disliked if not hated his father-Revenge for what exactly? The revenge story seemed to be brewing regarding Delaney's pop, but it was the butler that killed him.
I was talking about revenge on Sir Stuart given he is/was the face of all those deeds with the shady business moves the EITC was making when James served under him. It was touched on frequently and alluded to without going in to the exact details of his entire time there. At the very least the common/poor man taking down the bourgeoisie is apparent in their conflict. The first meeting with James and Sir Stuart encompassed that.Like what does James Delaney have to be really mad at the East India Company for? Maybe I missed it, but nothing connected with me
You said this after the fact but I'll take your word for it.And I already said even if you look at only season one of Peaky Blinders, it is a better show. So I am making a one to one comparison.
This show has potential, but it has it problems imo