![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m not generally a fan of sudden resurrections, but in this case, I think it worked. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I was completely fooled by Arthur’s apparent death (not least because the entire episode seemed to have a certain amount of clearing the decks going on). If the ending was downbeat, the opening certainly wasn’t. Linda Shelby as Kate Phillips Photograph: BBC/Caryn Mandabach/Robert Viglasky It was a smart, bittersweet ending and one I enjoyed, although it felt more like the end of the entire show, and I do wonder where the show and Steven Knight intend to go now. Certainly, this Thomas Shelby had no qualms about betraying Jessie or using her to get what he desired. The ending saw Tommy, now the newly elected Labour MP for Birmingham South, celebrate with friends and family. He pulled his way out of it, thanks largely to Polly, but the question remains: what kind of a man is Tommy Shelby? And so it proved as the end of Changretta’s vendetta, Alfie’s death and some ill-advised time off playing golf triggered a gin-driven existential crisis in the Shelby leader. One of the most interesting things about Peaky Blinders has always been the suggestion that Tommy is not actually impervious to the damage he wreaks. It was inevitable that the cancer-stricken Alfie (“riddled with it, Tommy”), who ended up bleeding his life out with only his dog Cyril for comfort, would make way – and the show will be considerably the poorer for the absence of Tom Hardy. ![]()
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