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Tiny role, but massive ick - the asylum attendant in S5!
▲ 19 r/PeakyBlinders

Tiny role, but massive ick - the asylum attendant in S5!

I know this is such a minor character to dislike, but the asylum attendant in S5 really annoyed me. When Tommy says Barney was his friend in the war, and the attendant says he’s “no one’s friend now,” it felt so unnecessarily cruel.

It’s a tiny line, but it says a lot. Tommy is remembering Barney as a soldier, a comrade, a person with a past, and the attendant immediately reduces him to just a dangerous inmate. I think that’s why it bothered me. He represents that cold institutional attitude toward traumatised men after the war. Once they were useful, they were heroes; once they came back broken, they were treated like things to manage.

Is anyone else massively irritated by a character that played such a minor role?

u/Just-Benefit2024 — 13 days ago
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Mine are the scenes when:

- Tommy takes a break from work, and all his PTSD comes flooding back. When Charlie peeks through the door, sees his dad completely inebriated after smashing a bottle/glass, and Tommy starts sobbing afterwards.

- when Tommy thinks he's going to die, and he prepares his wagon with all the photos, memories, etc., and then he sees Ruby and runs to hug her.

- when Arthur tries to hang himself after being betrayed by his dad.

- where it's Ruby's funeral... but only when I found out about Sinead O'Connor's tragic death following her son's. And they play "In This Heart" by her during the funeral.

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u/Just-Benefit2024 — 22 days ago