Ugh!

I got about two-thirds of the way through the first episode of "Peaky Blinders" before I gave up.  And I so wanted to like it.  It's my neck of the woods after all, and my Grandma (no, not that one, the other one) used to tell me stories about the "blinders" she remembered from her youth.  But I found it so utterly depressing - just who was I supposed to relate to?  They were all such nasty pieces of work, I couldn't feel any sort of sympathy or empathy with any of them and I just lost interest.  Shall I try again?  Not sure.