r/PeakyBlinders

I am in the middle of a very slow rewatch before I watch the movie. Just finished season 3. When I watched it before I found the storyline confusing and hard to follow. But this time, after managing to capture every detail properly, I am blown away by how good of a season it was. I always put seasons 1 and 2 above the others but honestly season 3 was just as good, I just hadn't been able to appreciate the intrigue the first time

was literally watching the last episode of Season 4.

I thought Arthur Shelby was dead, so I Googled him and was like WHAT??? He’s freaking alive.

Same thing happened with Alfie...

I actually spoiled it for myself haha

I just can't stop looking things up while watching...... All of this happened because of my freaking ADHD

fuck... adhd...

Do you guys think Tommy is sometimes corny, like there are times when Im watching and Tommy talks in a cringy way I do feel cringed alot.

So is it just me or anybody else feels the same way?

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10/10

I understand the context behind how the original writer passed away, but Tommy spent his entire life building his family from the ground up and working unbelievably hard. Then Lizzie leaves him, Polly dies, Michael turns against him, and somehow Arthur gets killed while Ada dies too. Then some completely new son is introduced to take over, Linda leaves Arthur and then comes back, Tommy goes to see Esme, and Esme’s character — who originally had a strong moral high ground — gets dragged through the dirt by turning her into a gold-craving gypsy. On top of all that, Tommy’s daughter dies.

It’s just a lot that happens, and it feels like it goes against what the original show was meant to be about. Even if Tommy died from tuberculoma, having his family there to mourn him and showing that his sacrifice actually meant something with a '10 years later' update on the family would’ve been a much better ending, in my opinion even though it is cliche...

What do you think?

I loved the show but it feels like we were robbed of a proper conclusion due to Helen McRory's tragic passing and the unfortunate issues with Paul Anderson behind the scenes.

The whole production felt incredibly tight until season 6 but then the writing had to be adapted to work around these unforeseeable changes and whereas I thought they did a decent a job rolling with the punches, the ending we got just doesn't feel consistent with the rest of the show.

The chemistry of the Shelby family and the feeling that it was them against the world is where the magic was for me. Yes, they teased the "will they, won't they" of betrayal within the family, but usually they came out on the other side stronger and more unified than ever. But by no fault of their own, the show runners had to abandon that in S6 and the movie.

I'm curious to hear your theories of how the story likely would have ended if not for these unfortunate circumstances behind the scenes. If the full cast and characters were at Steven Knight's disposal for the entirety of the shows run, what would have been?

Some stream of consciousness thoughts, ideas, and questions that came to mind:

- I know they wanted to stay historically accurate where possible, but damn did I want to see Mosley get his comeuppance. Also the Billy Boys. After getting so much of payoff in earlier seasons of the big bads getting destroyed, we got so blue-balled on these villains.

- If Tommy didn't actually have that terminal disease, what was causing those seizures? Extreme stress/anxiety I suppose?

- Arthur got done so incredibly dirty. I always thought he was the character that loved Tommy the most and should have gone honorably. He could have died protecting Tommy, or even gone off to fight in WW2 or something to close the loop on his own trauma.

- Polly was low key the most important character in terms of making the Shelby family chemistry work. I didn't realize this until she was gone.

- I personally could have done without Duke existing as a character. I actually like how he's written and the performances from both actors were great, but he kind of came out of nowhere and was injected as a main Shelby too quickly for my liking.

Thanks for reading. I was compelled to write this out because I was absolutely enthralled with this show but suddenly my binge is done and the show is over for me, and not on ideal terms. What a ride though.

That was honestly one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, a good 2 hours of basically nothing. Boring and lame as hell. I looked at the time while watching and it was literally over half the movie done without basically any action or good plot, and don’t even get me started on the plot.

Tommy kills Arthur? Are we serious? He would never do that. Then Duke doesn’t kill Ada, but watches as John (the villain) kills her in front of him, and doesn’t do anything there when he could have shot him to save her? Or shot him afterwards? They could have used the guys death as reason for Tommy needing to help Duke, because he messed with powerful men and they were now after him. Instead, Duke helps Tommy kill this man when he could have done it himself the whole goddamn time and prevented Ada’s death in the first place! Also could’ve prevented Tommy’s death this way too. What trash writing.

The grenade scene was ass (made no sense). The little shootout between Tommy and the villain was ass. Tommy’s death was ass, and absolutely everything else was ass including the fight/shooting choreography. Tommy really just stood in front of a car when he could’ve shot from cover, and took 2 bullets just to kill the villain. Then as he is about to die from being run over, he gets saved by Duke, just for Duke to shoot him anyway LOL. Then after Duke shoots him, Tommy still says a few last words?! I’m so disappointed. I thought Tommy would have at least lived. Why tf would you even name the movie the immortal man if Tommy dies? Man oh man

The best and only good part of the movie was the beginning semi comedy scene where Duke kills the British(?) dude who was leaking information to his wife and John says to shoot him again. My friend has yet to watch the movie but is a fan of the tv series and I will be saving him from seeing how much they ruined the peaky blinders with this movie. It feels like they made the movie just to kill off Tommy, and they did it in the worst way.

Anyone want to roleplay peaky blinders with me? 36 F looking for an active partner

Sooo I just finished the series yesterday and watched the movie today so officially I've come to an end of this peak 😭😭

Like oh god this was such a well acted, well written and well directed piece of cinema. It all started with just one single crate of guns, just a single fucking crate of guns

I literally won't be starting any other series for the time being because I just want to absorb this well in my memory 😭

One thing is that some characters in the whole series were unbearable. One being Gina.

Other thing is that I just saw a lot of negative comments and reviews of the immortal man and now I feel dumb because I cried for half an hour in the ending scene 😭

I watched peaky blinders the first time when I was really really young. So at that point in my life I couldn't understand half the series because as I said I was too young to understand all of that. But now watching it all again and understanding everything this time makes the feeling so surreal 😭😭

I personally liked the character of Alfie Solomons. I believe it was wholesome and complete in it's own way. From friends and foe to life and death, alfie had one of the best character arc.

Plus... curly's character is so cute 😭

Arthur's death is something I haven't been able to come to terms with. I think keeping it as a suicide would have been a better option or atleast labeling it as salvation instead of Thomas killing Arthur out of rage. I mean... it was a nah for me. Also the whole duke part made it a bit insignificant. I mean if it were Charles in place of duke, it would have held more significance. Just a personal opinion tho

And and and... Polly was the best and strongest character. Polly's death was so sudden and so sad that I almost didn't continue it further because I was literally confused. There was no need of that death. It was unnecessary. But then I got to know about Helen McCrory and... oh god I was devastated. But she was the best actor who could have played Polly. She played it the best.

I have one favourite scene in the whole 5 seasons and 1 movie but it's silly 😭 The scene where Thomas and Lizzie are going up the stairs to some rally I guess where mosley is also present and then Arthur comes destroyed in a black shirt with johnny dogs. So when Lizzie and Thomas are going up the stairs, one reporter breaks in and asks him a question and the men there were about to put their hands on Lizzie and Thomas to keep them moving but then both of them shove their hands away and Tommy says 'fuck off'.... yeah that's my favourite scene. No but trust me... watch that scene again and close your eyes and just listen to cillian saying fuck off... 😭😭 I watched that scene like 20 times... its so silly that that's my favourite scene. That fuck off was so... idk so smooth for no reason 😭

And till the end of season 5 I was with Thomas in his 'I have no limitations' but after polly's death... oh god... for me that was the point when Thomas should have stopped. That's the point he should have had limitations. I know.. I know there were circumstances but that's just my personal feeling that... at some point, he should have limitations, not for the world but atleast for himself

Rest of the post is just for the ladies -

MICHAEL GRAY IS SO FREAKING HOT !!!!!! (before the moustache)

And ABERAMA GOLD after the haircut !!!! 😭😭😭

I personally liked the style and persona of almost every man in the series but these 2 were my personal favourite of course after Cillian Murphy.

And major Campbell fuck you