Is anyone watching A thousand blows
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KnickstapeCity
RIP Big Dikk :wow: :mjcry:
detroitwalt
Superstar
Someone told me they ran through it in 1 day and enjoyed it. It’s been added to my list.
RennisDeynolds
I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds!
What's the issue? Two shirtless sweaty men touching each other in an enclosed area is a problem now?
KnickstapeCity
RIP Big Dikk :wow: :mjcry:
What's the issue? Two shirtless sweaty men touching each other in an enclosed area is a problem now?
A Thousand Blows….
TheAlbionist
All Star
Two episodes in and I'm fukking SOLD. 
Peter Popoff
Baba Yega in black uptowns
Meant to check this out last weekend, will definitely watch.
TheNatureBoy
Veteran
Heard Chris Ryan talking about it on The Watch. Might have to put it on the watch list, for whenever I have less stuff in the rotation.
TheAlbionist
All Star
From the perspective of someone who lives in the area 150 years later, this is honestly the best depiction I've ever seen of London's East End and Docklands. It's so fukking tangible - they're not just a neighbourhoods that look like Wapping and Spitalfields. It is Wapping. It is Spitalfields. From the landmarks in the set design you can practically pin each scene to a street or an area that still exists today.
The character choice is perfect, even down to the Chinese boarding house owner... I live about half a mile from the West India Docks (where sugar and slaves used to arrive from the Caribbean) in Limehouse, which was London's original "Chinatown" so the mix of Jamaican and Chinese immigrants clinging to existence alongside the lowest of British society feels so much more historical than the never ending parades of detached aristocracy that period dramas usually offer.
The fact that the main characters are all real historical figures just adds a whole extra layer... we don't normally get to hear these stories - Hekeziah Moscow really was a lion tamer turned champion boxer, Sugar Goodson and Punch Lewis really did run a bareknuckle boxing venue in the East End in the 1880s called the Blue Coat Boy. Mary Carr really did lead a gang of female thieves called the Forty Elephants.
The people, the spaces, the geography, the politics - everything apart from some finer details of storyline is so fukking authentic.
I might never stop talking about it. Apologies in advance. Someone finally did my ends justice.
The character choice is perfect, even down to the Chinese boarding house owner... I live about half a mile from the West India Docks (where sugar and slaves used to arrive from the Caribbean) in Limehouse, which was London's original "Chinatown" so the mix of Jamaican and Chinese immigrants clinging to existence alongside the lowest of British society feels so much more historical than the never ending parades of detached aristocracy that period dramas usually offer.
The fact that the main characters are all real historical figures just adds a whole extra layer... we don't normally get to hear these stories - Hekeziah Moscow really was a lion tamer turned champion boxer, Sugar Goodson and Punch Lewis really did run a bareknuckle boxing venue in the East End in the 1880s called the Blue Coat Boy. Mary Carr really did lead a gang of female thieves called the Forty Elephants.
The people, the spaces, the geography, the politics - everything apart from some finer details of storyline is so fukking authentic.
I might never stop talking about it. Apologies in advance. Someone finally did my ends justice.
Majestyx
Duck Season
they put Tommy from snatch on roids and a workout plan