Uses and gratifications of my chosen texts.

Peaky Blinders-

• Finding out about relevant events in society and the world - Peaky Blinders informs us about a lot of events which were occurring in 1919, this is evident when tommy is confronting CI Chester Campbell and mentions 'The IRA' who were a terrorist group which was well known at the time. This enables the audience to learn about how society use to be and informs them about events which were occurring then.
• Gaining insight to circumstances of others - Peaky Blinders follows Tommy Shelby who lives in Post-World war Birmingham. The audience therefore sees how life was for people in Birmingham at that time. In one scene Tommy is shown taking heroin on his own in a dark room, this allows the audience to see the dark and deprived state society was after the war. This also helps the audience see how life as a soldier coming back from war was as Tommy was taking heroin so that he could forget his miserable and gruesome past of the war.
• Finding reinforcement for personal values - Peaky Blinders