The Irish crime drama Kin is available to stream now. It runs two seasons， 18 episodes total, and its hard, gangland story makes it one of the best things to watch if you’re looking for something in the Peaky Blinders vein.
It has some of the same DNA as Peaky Blinders: damaged gangsters, family infighting, power always shifting hands. But Kin goes in a different direction. The Irish series drops the swagger and the grand, stylized cool for something harsher, much closer to real life. When violence hits here, it leaves a mark. And the people at the center of it are pushed by fear, pride, desperation, love, loyalty, revenge, and grief.
At the center is the war between Frank Kinsella, played by Aidan Gillen, and Eamon Cunningham, played by Ciaran Hinds. As that feud spreads through their children, siblings, partners, and allies, Kin turns into a brutal loop of revenge, showing how organized crime seeps into everything around it and ruins whatever it touches.
The series is also loosely inspired by the real Hutch-Kinahan feud, which gives even its bigger dramatic swings a sense of reality.
Alongside Gillen and Hinds, Charlie Cox, Emmett J. Scanlan, Clare Dunne, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Yasmin Seky, and Danielle Galligan help give Kin its depth. It’s the kind of ensemble people have compared to Love/Hate, The Sopranos, and The Wire, while still separating it from something louder and flashier like Gangs of London.
If you’re after a modern gangster series that’s less interested in showing off and more interested in getting under the skin of its characters, Kin is a very good pick. Both seasons are streaming now.
Author: Emmanuel Pina
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