Goodfellas influenced Peaky Blinders

Steven Knight has named the American gangster films as his reference rather than British crime drama, and the show is shot like one: slow-motion entrances scored to anachronistic music, a family business treated as a corporation, and violence that arrives without a change in tempo. The specific Scorsese inheritance is the refusal to moralise, letting competence read as glamour for four seasons before the bill arrives.