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[–] bl4ckblooc@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I always like pretending that Peaky Blinders was the inspiration for Yellowstone. Like, some old dudes in America felt threatened that the biggest show about people being bad asses was about the English.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So kind of like The Office but they had to rename Peaky Blinders because Americans wouldn't get the title?

[–] bl4ckblooc@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Sort of, but it was more of pride than jealousy of the success.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] bl4ckblooc@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Birmingham is not in Ireland?

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] bl4ckblooc@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

That’s a much bigger debate than I’m expecting anting to get into tonight. They were born and grew up in Birmingham, so I call them English. Plus their mother was from Birmingham according to the wiki