How Peaky Blinders orgy scenes made Versailles look tame

Publish date: 2024-08-30

Featuring explicit romps, nudity and gay sex, it’s a scene that makes controversial bodice-ripper Versailles look positively tame.

As controversy engulfs the BBC2 drama about French king Louis XIV and sexual intrigue in his court, gangland drama Peaky Blinders, also on BBC2, last week sent pulses racing even faster with an orgy scene featuring gangsters, ‘whores’ and Russian Cossacks.

But it went largely unnoticed because of the row surrounding the sex scenes in French-produced Versailles, which is broadcast on BBC2 on Wednesdays at 9.30pm.

Nudity galore: The cavorting in last week's episode of Peaky Blinders was described as 'one big orgy'

Nudity galore: The cavorting in last week's episode of Peaky Blinders was described as 'one big orgy'

In one scene a Russian aristocratic beauty assures the show’s anti-hero Tommy Shelby, played by Murphy, that ‘her aunt only employs the best whores’

In one scene a Russian aristocratic beauty assures the show’s anti-hero Tommy Shelby, played by Murphy, that ‘her aunt only employs the best whores’

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This is despite the fact that the sex and nudity in the British show, starring Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy and Helen McCrory, was far more gratuitous.

The orgy scene in Peaky Blinders, which is screened at 9pm, ran for several minutes and at one stage a shocked male character, surveying the debauchery before him, exclaimed: ‘It’s a f****** mad house.’

In another scene, a Russian aristocratic beauty assures the show’s anti-hero Tommy Shelby, played by Murphy, that ‘her aunt only employs the best whores’.

Spectating: Duchess Tatiana and (Gaite Jansen) and Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) survey the frolicking

Spectating: Duchess Tatiana and (Gaite Jansen) and Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) survey the frolicking

The episode was overshadowed by raunchy sex scenes in BBC2 drama about French king Louis XIV (above)

The episode was overshadowed by raunchy sex scenes in BBC2 drama about French king Louis XIV (above)

The steamy episode generated a frenzied debate on social media with one fan describing it as ‘one big orgy’. He expressed his embarrassment at watching the show with parents and family.

‘The one night my family decides to watch Peaky Blinders with me the episode is basically one big orgy,’ he pointed out.

Another added: ‘Bad time for your mum to walk in. COVER YOUR EYES.’

The third series of Peaky Blinders, which depicts the violent rivalry between a Birmingham gang and Russian mobsters, has been the most successful to date and the BBC has already commissioned two further series.

 

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