Peaky Blinders: all you need to know, one day after the end of the Netflix series

When streaming wasn’t what it would be today, Peaky Blinders It was one of the series, of the workhorses with which Netflix it was positioned well above. Next to House of cards, breaking Bad and, to a lesser extent, Ozarklong before Eleven had convulsions strange things and premiered its first episode, the Birmingham gangster story was already attracting millions of viewers.

Well, all good things, it seems, come to an end. And this Friday, June 10, we will know what happened to the reckless, ambitious and respected Thomas Shelby (Cillian Murphy) and his family, when Netflix premieres the six episodes of the sixth and final season of the creation of Steven Knight.

There’s still time to catch up for those who haven’t seen all five seasons – the expression couldn’t be happier. There are six episodes per season and they last about an hour.

And in this sixth, the very outcome, the last chapter, lasts an hour and a half, almost an exception.

So, for the fans who have been waiting for the end for two and a half years, for those who marathon it in the tough months of the pandemic and for those who haven’t seen a single episode, we will update again, to know everything you need before reviewing. Thomas Shelby with the gun aimed at his temple.

How we left Thomas Shelby

Tommy has a revolver resting on his temple. And he screams.

Nothing that will confuse fans of the series too much.

So we left him – and he left us – Thomas Shelby at the end of the fifth season. There, in the middle of his field, a few meters from his house, where his wife Lizzie and their two small children, suppose, or suppose, rested.

What led him to such a decision or action?

At the end of the 1920s, in England, as fascism was beginning to take hold on the European continent, everything began to boil over on the British island. Thomas was scrambling politically, while still maintaining his clandestine betting businesses – buying soccer referees or at the racecourse – and liquor smuggling, expanding into the United States, where his cousin Michael was located.

But an attack he devised against an anti-Semitic leader, who wanted to be Prime Minister and whom Tommy was accompanying, falls apart.

Someone obviously betrayed him. And they nearly killed Arthur, her older brother.

Yes, what we don’t know is how he manages to survive, season after season, so much alcohol and drugs that circulate in his body.

It might be convenient to review, at least, the last episode of the fifth season, released in 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic, to have everything fresher.

Who were the Peaky Blinders?

For those who have only seen one photo from the series, the Peaky Blinders were a gang of gangsters in Birmingham that really existed.

Birmingham’s famous youth, urban and criminal gang, but during the First World War. The fantastic series over a long period, in which they also dress, with ties and long coats with lapels – and wide, to hide pistols or machine guns -, vests with buttons, silk scarves, black leather boots and caps with visors

It is that the name Peaky Blinders would have originated from the razor blades they placed on the edge of their caps.

Creator Steven Knight has more fairy tale than necessary, created the Shelbys, and put the family at the forefront each season as a united nucleus. Who have disagreements, and also faithful companions – and some not so much -, and opponents who have renewed themselves season after season.

Because, of course, Shelbys can dress very well, but their heartbeat doesn’t tremble if they have to brandish knives and get blood stained. In addition, we have already mentioned, they can use revolvers, pistols and / or machine guns.

Between one war and another

The story takes place after World War I, when Thomas, Arthur and others return from France, where they fought. Gradually they became the owners of the city. And the sixth season that starts this Friday, June 10, places them as early as the 1930s.

The engine of every season has always been the struggle, the dispute for power. Against the Italians, against the Irish, or the British, or the Jews (will Tom Hardy’s character Alfie Solomons return?), Being in control is essential for Thomas.

Of course, doing it inside his mansion, away from the city, is not the same thing for him.

Dedicated to Aunt Polly

The only thing I’m going to anticipate is that the first episode of this sixth season is titled black day, has a dedication. And it’s in memory of actress Helen McCrory (she played Narcissa Malfoy in the film saga of Harry Potter), the mythical aunt Polly. The only one who could stop Tommy. Why did she have gypsy roots? Perhaps.

In an interview with EmpireIrish Cillian Murphy (Dunkirk, a quiet place II) was honest about the unexpected departure of his partner, who was very ill when the recordings began, and when they decided to return to the sets, after the forced hiatus from Covid, she had died at the age of 52, of breast cancer. .

“It always saddened me to remember that we were about to shoot, the pandemic came and we had to stop. If we had recorded then, Helen would have been in the series, “recalled Murphy, now 46, and an actor in many Christopher Nolan films.” It’s a big loss; it’s hard to understand. She was the matriarch of the whole thing as a character, but also because of her personality. “

How to justify the absence of Aunt Polly?

All a success and with records

The series produced by the BBC has already premiered, on February 27, in Great Britain, where the six episodes were broadcast, but not in a marathon manner, as was the case in Latin America with each season on Netflix, but one a week.

And the first equaled a record, the one that had the sixth chapter of the fifth season, reaching 3.8 million viewers, being the most watched of the entire series.

Murphy’s Efforts

In a recent interview, Cillian Murphy recalled being forced to eat meat after 15 years of being a vegetarian to play Thomas Shelby, something he called “fucking exhausting.”

Having to perfect the Birmingham accent seems to have been the last, but he must have eaten a lot of protein to have Thomas’ physique, attended gym sessions and – he said – consumed 3,000 fake marijuana cigarettes in all seasons.

And the movie is coming

Steven Knight, two decades ago nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay Nice and dirty thingsand also responsible for that little gem that David Cronenberg then turned into a movie, which he was oriental promiseswith Viggo Mortensen, he has already assured that there will be no more Peaky Blinders in series format – I’ve already seen all six episodes and I’m not going to spoil anything until the release – but he also confirmed that there will be a movie.

And the shooting of the film has not started, certainly to avoid speculation when it is known which of the Shelbys and / or their enemies will be part of it, so that the public does not speculate that, if one is missing, it is because they killed him in series. ?

The film, of which it is not known whether it will be a sort of epilogue of the series, or when it will take place, or where, will be released in theaters at the end of 2023.

Once the six episodes of the sixth and final season are out, it will be known. Paraphrasing the series, “By order of the Peaky Blinders …”.