Peaky Blinders - how does the text attract it's audience?

Peaky Blinders is a crime drama series set in Birmingham in 1919, after soldiers had returned from World War 1 and formed a criminal gang. In the specific episode watched in class, there are several elements that are all helpful towards attracting the text's target audience. 

One aspect of Peaky Blinders that attracts it's audience is its high production value and cinematography. For example, in one of the first scenes of episode two, a fight occurs between the Shelby Brothers and the Irish Gypsies. The cinematography used throughout this fight scene is something that will target and active audience through the use of carefully constructed lighting, camera work and a slow motion effect, that is included throughout this fight scene as a way for the audience to watch the scene carefully as well as show off the highly complimented cinematography.

Another element of the text that attracts audiences is the constant use of non diegetic sound. This however, targets a more passive audience, as Peaky Blinders is a text that uses conventions to target both active and passive audience members. The use of a soundtrack throughout this episode is something that will help a passive audience read the narrative and feel the emotions that the producers of the text want them to feel. On the other hand, the fact that the soundtrack is consistently made up of more contemporary music, breaks the conventional techniques that would be expected in a text from the post war era.