The heavily anticipated spinoff series to the celebrated Peaky Blinders has the potential to tell many great gangster stories pertaining to Boston, Massachusetts. The beloved British crime series starring Cillian Murphy, a Best Actor favorite at the upcoming 2024 Academy Awards for Oppenheimer, ended in 2022 after six celebrated seasons. The series originally debuted back in 2013 and was created by Steven Knight, who has also reported developments of a Peaky Blinders spinoff movie set to be released sometime in the near future.
The Peaky Blinders spinoff series set in Boston is one of two reported spinoff series within the Peaky Blinders extended universe. According to Bloomberg, “One of [the Peaky Blinders spinoff series] would be set in Boston during the middle of the 20th century, a couple decades after the original Peaky Blinders, while another would focus on Polly, the matriarch of the criminal Shelby clan.” The latter series will be produced without the involvement of the original Polly actor Helen McCrory, who died in 2021 at the age of 52 due to breast cancer.
Peaky Blinders Boston Spinoff: Confirmation & Everything We Know
Besides the upcoming feature film, the Peaky Blinders universe is set to expand through the introduction of two spinoff shows on Netflix.
Peaky Blinders’ Spinoff Will Focus On Boston Gangsters (Which Have Often Been Overlooked)
The Peaky Blinders Boston spinoff seems to be sitting on a massive resource of untapped potential considering the deep history that both the Irish mob and Italian mafia have had in Boston, Massachusetts. There have been several films and television series that have looked into the gangster scene in Boston throughout the years, most notably Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning The Departed as well as 2015’s Black Mass which starred Johnny Depp as the notorious Whitey Bulger.
A majority of the famous gangster movies and television shows are set in New York and New Jersey, such as The Godfather, Goodfellas, The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, Gangs of New York, and Once Upon A Time In America. The Departed is certainly the most famous Boston mob movie but it was set in the 1980s. The Peaky Blinders Boston spinoff suggests a much earlier time period that is likely going to chronicle how the Irish mob and the Italian mafia took over the city throughout the 20th century.
8 Peaky Blinders Characters Who Can Return In Netflix’s New Spinoffs
The two Peaky Blinders spinoffs reveal some interesting information about their setting, which could hint at some characters potentially returning.
How Peaky Blinders Already Set Up Its Boston Gangster Story
The Peaky Blinders Boston spinoff will likely be set in a similar time period, which started in 1919 in season 1 and ended in 1933 in season 6. There were some connections to Boston that were established in the original series, such as the Solomon’s working in East Boston, which Shleby points out in Peaky Blinders season 6, saying to Alfie, “Your uncle. He ran all the narcotics, bootlegging, prostitution, gambling syndicates out of East Boston.” Jack Nelson, who is loosely based on JFK’s father Joseph Kennedy Sr., is also a South Boston crime leader introduced in Peaky Blinders season 6 that could be referenced or featured in the Peaky Blinders Boston spinoff series.
Peaky Blinders
Peaky Blinders is a historical crime drama created and written by Steven Knight and starring Cillian Murphy, Sam Neill, and Helen McCrory. The television show is based on the gang, Peaky Blinders, a group that banded together after the end of World War I.
- Release Date
- September 12, 2013
- Cast
- Annabelle Wallis , Ian Peck , Helen McCrory , Paul Anderson , Cillian Murphy , Ned Dennehy , Aimee-Ffion Edwards , Sam Neill , Sophie Rundle , Tony Pitts , Joe Cole
- Genres
- Crime , Drama , History , Thriller
- Rating
- TV-MA
- Seasons
- 6
- Writers
- Steven Knight
- Streaming Service(s)
- Netflix
- Directors
- Otto Bathurst , Tom Harper , Colm McCarthy , Tim Mielants , David Caffrey , Anthony Byrne
- Showrunner
- Steven Knight
