Steven Knight's period crime drama "Peaky Blinders" is a show that has no shortage of good villains. In fact, pretty much every single major character on the show is a villain from someone else's point of view, regardless of their actual alignment in the eyes of the law. This goes with the territory, seeing as the series' most prominent protagonists include people like noted crime lord turned politician Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy), his no less dangerous aunt Polly Gray (Helen McCrory), his volatile brother Arthur (Paul Anderson), and a whole host of their relatives, friends, and acquaintances.

With protagonists like that, you need a gallery of adversaries for the ages, which is precisely what "Peaky Blinders" made its business to cultivate. The show's finest antagonists are most definitely more antagonistic than your average gang member or pocket-stuffing, shady businessman. All members of this group of arch-villains are easily evil...