When I talk about this show, I hold back my excitement, just in case someone watches it and it doesn’t live up to all the hype. I’m changing my tune. I promise you, it will.

I do admit that the first few episodes are a little slow, but once you start binging, hold onto your newsboy caps, it's going to be a bumpy ride...

Set in Birmingham, England in 1919, the plot centers on the Shelby family: three brothers, Tommy, John and Arthur, and their Aunt Polly. The family is at the top of the food chain in a gang called the “Peaky Blinders,” a name given for how they sew razor blades into their caps so that they always discreetly have a weapon at the ready (see photo below).

John is the youngest, seemingly innocent brother that takes his brothers’ orders very seriously. Fresh back from the First World War, middle brother, Tommy is the self-proclaimed leader of the three. The eldest brother, Arthur is slightly unstable and trusts Tommy to do the most for the "company." You can tell there's tension in the beginning between the two because of this power struggle. In one episode, Tommy tells Arthur “I think, so that you don’t have to,” a way for him to call all the shots while Arthur still feels like he's in the lead.

The series follows the Peaky Blinders on their quest to be the most powerful gang in Birmingham and, eventually, all of England. The Peaky Blinders aren't the only gang with this goal and in the world of gangs, there are no rules, making the road to more money and more power all the more interesting. Sometimes the Peaky Blinders succeed in their tasks without problems and sometimes they don't (hence the bumpy ride I promised before).

WAIT...There's more.

Just to make their road to the top more difficult, the British Government sends in a woman to spy on the gang. A young woman named Grace is given the task of finding out where the Peaky Blinders have hid a large shipment of guns stolen from the government. Aunt Polly doesn't trust Grace, who poses as a bartender in the pub they own. The brothers, especially Tommy and Arthur, take a liking to her and eventually start letting her in on more and more pieces of their operation. I won't say much more, for fear of spoiling what is one of the best shows I've ever seen.

If my opinion isn't enough, the critics of Rotten Tomatoes give it a 93% rating.