There’s an urban legend that peak Peaky Blinders left the UK’s barbers traumatised after so many men requested Cillian Murphy’s Tommy Shelby haircut only to be wildly disappointed with the result. They can rest easy, then, in the knowledge that House of Guinness will not spawn a wave of unflattering imitation hairstyles. Set in the 1800s, the characters are all sporting bouffants of varying lusciousness with nary a side shave in sight. Perhaps it will be the Turkish hair transplant doctors who will be besieged this time around.
Hair or not, whether writer and producer Steven Knight can recreate the magic of Peaky Blinders remains to be seen.
