Peaky Blinders

I enjoyed tonights episode even though it was hearbreaking in parts ,the sound quality needs looking at though as my TV was turned up much higher than normal.I love the style the settings etc ,lots of things I see in old family photos and it looks authentic to me,I must admit I'm not an expert .The music by Sinead O'Connor was hertwrenching andI'm off to see if I can buy it from Amazon

I did watch it again last night, lot of it set in Black Country Museum. So very dark and mumbling and I’ve completely lost the actual plot. Looks like it will be the death of Tommy, with his terminal diagnosis. I haven’t any love for any of them, they get what they deserve. I do think Tommys children adorable though, felt so sorry for them.

I was beginning to think this last series of Peaky Blinders was rather boring. Until Stephen Graham was in it as a dock worker and marked man. I commented to my husband that he won’t be finished off yet as he never plays a weak character. I am hoping he appears in it again now I am warming to the series again.

I’m just finding it depressing especially with all the terrible things happening at the moment. I still love the settings and the acting so I will stick with it. I didn’t realise there were different kinds of TB.

My mother in law was a nurse working on TB wards in Liverpool. She said there were different types and families were wiped out by it in every street at the time in the 1950s.

Certainly twists and turns last night, enjoying it.

Reading up on TB it did say that one form could spontaneously disappear. Fingers crossed for Tommy….

The last episode will be 81 minutes long and will be a trial run for the forthcoming film. Some of the new characters we’ve met in this series will be featured in the film. So I’m thinking Duke (Tommy’s son that he never knew he had until Esme told him), and maybe the Stephen Graham character.

Would the series have taken off the way it has if they hadn’t cast Cillian Murphy as Tommy?

Good question. As I said previously, I’m not a CM fan, but I think he’s wonderful in PB. I think it probably would have been popular no matter who played Tommy. The acting, writing, costumes, music, cinematography are all excellent imo. Having said that, I do think this final series up to now is lack lustre compared to all the previous ones.

Wow! Excellent, thoroughly enjoyed, will look forward to the film.

Me too, Jaxjacky, I think P.B. will be even more powerful on the big screen.

At last a series with a clever satisfying ending. I really was on the edge of my seat. And I cried.

Wow, just watched the last episode. My goodness you don’t get much more stylish and better written.

That’s the way to write a last episode!

Absolutely fantastic end! Answered so many questions and tied up loose ends. A bit violent - but that’s the Peaky f***** Blinders isn’t it?!

The final episode was very good, much better overall than the previous five episodes imo. The mustard gas fight outside the pub was brilliantly staged, the sight of Arthur and Jeremiah in those gas masks was chilling. And how sad was the effect it had on them, I think it really brought home the horror of having lived through fighting in the trenches of WW1.
I still have a few niggles though, how did they find out/know Billy was a traitor? And was it not just a bit too coincidental that the doctor’s estate was where Tommy had made camp, so had quick access to him when he realised the truth?
But mostly, I really wish they’d stop the slo-mo bits, that’s been very over-done throughout this series.
Like others have said, I’m looking forward to the film, if only to see the downfall of the loathsome Mr & Mrs Mosley.

I watched something on BBC3 called, I think, Obsessed with Peaky Blinders that explained a lot of things. I must admit that I didn’t know a lot of the characters eg Johnny Dog. There was an interview with Cillian Murphy last night which I missed. Going to see it it’s on catchup.