故事开始于1919年的伯明翰穷困区，各种暴力犯罪猖獗。一战归来的士兵，政治改革家，以及黑帮犯罪分子都想在此求得生存之机。从战场走私回来的枪支弹药进入到普通社区；共产主义分子密谋发动暴力改革，而国会对此持默许态度。温斯顿·丘吉尔企图动用自己的\"特别部队\"来应对这些危机...
Peaky Blinders的名称来自于该帮派成员习惯于将剃刀刀片藏在帽檐（Peak）之下，通过收取保护费，赌博以及抢劫维持运营；本剧聚焦于谢尔比家族，其中希里安·墨菲饰演的汤米·谢尔比则是最暴力的黑帮领袖，在时代大背景下，我们将一起见证这些黑帮狂徒如何生存...
本站推荐同是黑帮题材的《黑帮天使第一季》。
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Cillian Murphy has been set to star as Tommy, the most ruthless brother in a family of gangsters in the six-part BBC Two drama Peaky Blinders. Created Steven Knight, who wrote David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises and was Oscar nominated for Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things, the series is set in 1919 Birmingham where Tommy’s family rules the lawless post-war slum neighborhoods as returning soldiers, revolutionaries and criminals fight for survival. The family is known as the “Peaky Blinders” based on their practice of sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps. Murphy’s Tommy finds his leadership challenged when a Belfast police chief es to clean up the city, and a beautiful, mysterious woman arrives with a dangerous secret. The Tiger Aspect/Caryn Mandabach Productions crime saga is produced Katie Swinden and starts principal photography in September for a 2013 UK debut. Otto Bathurst will direct. Writers include Knight, David Leland, Stephen Russell and To Finlay. Murphy’s just ing off The Dark Knight Rises, his third turn in Christopher Nolan’s Batman series. Uping, he’s got Broken, the British drama that opened Critics Week in Cannes. He is repped CAA in the US, Lou Coulson Associates in the UK and The Lisa Richards Agency in Ireland.