Peaky &*$%ing Blinders is back!

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I can't see a thread yet, anyone else as a ridiculously excited as me after seeing the teaser trailer.

I reckon Tommy's married May. Or at least I hope so, 'cos I couldn't stand Grace.

I do love Tom Hardy, but I have never seen him play anyone who doesn't say 'facking' or 'mate' in an aggressive cockney accent

Ah I hadn't considered that he grassed them up.

Michael! Cometh the hour, cometh the man....

I thought he was going to be arrested too, but no, so what does it all mean? Open-ended and so many possibilities!

Tom hardy was brilliant in that angry rant! I loved it. And him. I love him. I think i may have said that already

Yes to Michael the man! Polly is doing my head in with all this "not my baby boy" stuff. He is what, 20? And hasnt been her boy for a looong time. She was happy enough with all the killing that was keeping her in the manner to which she had become accustomed (she took part herself!) but somehow not ok for michael to do it! He's a grown ass man! (And quite a lot sexier in the series )

Arthur's farewell and then that finale - am breathless. Cannot WAIT to see where they take this tale next... Boston? New York? So going to miss watching this.

Heres my take on it. Tommy knew the other side would be out for his blood after he conned them. So, he needed them tied up with police, facing charges for all the bad stuff they did. He can arrange this by telling all to the police. But he needs to secure the family's liberty because when he grasses he will have to tell about the boys blowing up the train. Also, its possible the police were already after Poll as she confessed to the priest about killing the copper. So, he needs to use the info he has as leverage to secure his family's freedom. But he needs to grass his family up first to be able to negotiate their release.

Tom Hardy was bloody brilliant, wasn't he? Marvellous acting!

And what about Duchess Tatiana? How ruthless and single-minded is she!

I think your theory is probably right, MrsS. But will Tommy's plan work? Will the family ever forgive him?

My theory about Polly and Michael is Poll is a religious woman, and she doesn't want her son being damed to he'll for committing a mortal sin. Similar to the Sopranos- they all believe they're going to hell once they've crossed that line and killed for the first time, so there's no way of making amends and no reason not to kill again. That's how I interpreted it anyway and I suppose being brought up Catholic leads me to that conclusion.

*hell

What the hell just happened? I have just watched the ending twice and still don't totally follow. What a series though - even though neither me or dh were completely sure what was happening half the time.
Fantastic acting and Cillian Murphy is the most gorgeous man on TV.

Tatiana is another species! she has no soul. I loved tommy's come back for her horrible comment.

I suspect if that is Tommy's plan there will be someone on the other side who manages to put a spanner in the works. Of course it cant run smoothly.

Yes good thinking on Poll's reasoning. I also wondered if having also killed someone, she didnt want Michael to have to carry that weight. She knows what it does to you and didnt want him having that in him.

Thursday: Yes Tom Hardy totally channeling his performance of Ronnie Kray in Legend....

Kept expecting him to spit out "I came here for a proper fucking shoot-out!"

I think perhaps Tommy has done a deal with Churchill. They either get arrested or they are killed. The government can't be see to be doing nothing and this is the lessor of two evils?

Kept expecting him to spit out "I came here for a proper fucking shoot-out!

I don't think Tommy called the police, I think they were coming anyway. I think he's trying to save them. What would be in it for him to do otherwise?

I think the shadier parts of the Govt always did intend to take out the Blinders after all the deeds were done, wasn't that in the first episode or so?

Tommy has obviously done a deal with someone very very important to give evidence against someone in order free his family?

Tommy knew the charges for each of them so he definitely knew and was involved. It was deffo some kind of deal that he's made. He wasn't arrested as he wasn't involved in blowing up the train. He was securing the money from the Russians instead, which the police/government won't know about as he planned it with Tatiana. What was Polly arrested for?

Polly murdered the copper from seasons 1 and 2. She confessed it to a priest in confessions. This makes me think Tommy grassed them in order to work a deal. Otherwise why would the police suddenly be coming for polly for that murder now, at the same time as they came for the other boys?

Because they have been under surveillance, they always have been.

That's what series 1&2 were about initially and that's why the Govt persuaded them to carry out this Russian plan because they had the power to arrest them. The arrests are the final double cross if you like.

But Tommy has a plan....

Ahhh! So if they were under surveilance the whole time then the police knew about the tunnel, the plan to dupe the russians, the baby being kidnapped, arthur killing the italian of it? But just let it play out? And obviously then bass/boss (the policeman tommy pays) tipped tommy off that they were coming in to arrest them?

Not quite so sure they knew everything in quite so much detail.

But certainly while they were being useful they did not want to arrest anyone, now the Russian business is over best to try and split up the gang who know about the 'inner sanctum of the Govt's' plan' to discredit the Red Russians and White Russians comeuppance.

The Birmingham police are mainly all in Tommy's pay, but certainly in series 1&2 Churchill employed Sam Neil's character (who Polly killed) to watch the Blinders to prevent them supplying arms to the Irish, so I guess they are all known (& under surveillance) by agents of the crown (non Birmingham police or MI5 equivalents).

I assume Tommy has evidence against someone (the MP chap who was in with the Priest maybe) that he will use to trade in order to get his family released?

Such a brilliant series! Tricky to follow at times though! In addition to the above, I'm confused by the speech he gives at the end when dishing out the cash. Why does he credit lizzie with stopping his heart from breaking? Why does he flip out at everyone else? Is it guilt for landing everyone in trouble.?

I can't wait for the next series but I reckon it could be a long wait.

Lizzie made reference earlier in the series to him shagging her over a desk, I think with the money he was trying to thank her, but to her it just made her feel like a prostitute again.

Just to clarify - the tunnel wasn't to genuinely rob the Russians then? It was a plan between Tommy and the duchess to liberate the jewels but not implicate herself? I suppose had Charlie not been safe he would have betrayed har and given the odd follows them?

Lizzie was a prostitute in series one. Tommy used to pay her for sex and then he gave her the job in the business under the condition she never sold sex again. Since grace died he has been paying her for sex again. Thats what his comment was about.

the tunnel wasn't to genuinely rob the Russians then? It was a plan between Tommy and the duchess to liberate the jewels but not implicate herself? I suppose had Charlie not been safe he would have betrayed har and given the odd follows them?

Yes thats my take on it, that must have been their plan all along.

I've finally seen the last episode!

I thought Arthur's wife showed her true colours: grasping, uncaring (about her husband), selfish.... is she a psychopath?

I am so glad that Alfie lived to be in the next series. He's turning out to be one of the best characters.

But what exactly did Tommy say at the end? It was all a bit of a blur. They have to be arrested, but he knows more powerful people and he'll get them out? Why was Polly arrested? or Tommy's sister?