Peaky Blinders

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I keep hearing rumours but can't see anything set in stone. Does anyone know when the new series of PB starts?

You are right!
Hope he's back in it soon.

Thought the scenes between Ada and Diana were excellent last night.

Ada is awesome 😎

And Tommy's story of marrying Grace and wanting to become legitimate is very similar to the Michael Corleone in the "Godfather" story and his marriage to the wrong woman (in Michael's case to the similarly annoying Kate) and for her striving to make the family business legitimate that was the beginning of his downfall.

Had Tommy not married Grace he would have been much happier

Well for starters she surely kept him awake all night with her bloody heavy breathing

Yeah I’d kill to see an alternate universe Peaky Blinders where he marries May and lives a nice life with her raising and training racehorses with a couple of children as well.

Though it probably wouldn’t have been as gripping as this Peaky Blinders

@tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz

It goes through me. I heard it while eating my dinner and it almost put me off, as if she was next to me breathing on my dinner

[quote Chocolattay]@tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz

It goes through me. I heard it while eating my dinner and it almost put me off, as if she was next to me breathing on my dinner [/quote]
Ha! I imagine it would.

For me, the saving grace of this series has been the women holding it together. I loved Ada in Sunday's episode, and Lizzie is great. Good to see Esme as well, though why they had to go on a trek to the graveyard is beyond me. Couldn't she have just told Tommy the story? Can't stand Gina though, she is awful.

I quite like Gina her dress sense is amazing

Nice to see Ada at the forefront again, loved the Shelby/Mitford standoff (which by my scoring, Ada won hands down) Stephen Graham again proved what a fine actor he is.

Tommy has got to get himself together and he hasn't a lot of time. Also, I thought I'd read more than once that Stephen Knight anticipated it ending on the eve of WW2; surely we're only up to about 1934?

Gina is picking up where Polly left off I think, irritatingly over-sexualised even when talking about what's for tea.

@CPL593H

Nice to see Ada at the forefront again, loved the Shelby/Mitford standoff (which by my scoring, Ada won hands down) Stephen Graham again proved what a fine actor he is.

Tommy has got to get himself together and he hasn't a lot of time. Also, I thought I'd read more than once that Stephen Knight anticipated it ending on the eve of WW2; surely we're only up to about 1934?

I'm pretty sure Ada made a comment about it being 1934 when she was talking to Diana. Loved Ada in last night's episode. Her clothes, hair and make up were gorgeous, especially the trouser suit and fob watch!

Doesn’t it mirror life though, where people do lose status and verve as they get older and the young guns come through? I think Tommy will die.

I think he'll die too. He wants to really.

In a way it's such a sad programme, all these men broken by their way trauma, and unable to find their way back to normal life.

I agree. I think it’s incredibly well done.

It's the "lost generation" of Fitzgerald

There was one good thing about Grace... it led to this scene!

If Miquelon was actually Scotland that would explain why it looked so appealing!

I miss Polly dreadfully, through Ada’s trouser suit was reminiscent of her.

And good to see Esme again. (I don’t remember her in Detectorists!)

But what someone says above about the loss of the clan feeling in this series is sadly true. And that was part of what distinguished the show and made it magnificent. It’s painful to see the beautiful Arthur reduced to a shambling bit part.

Will stick with it as I’ve invested in a series pass - but it’s less gripping and fabulous than before.

She was Sophie in Detectorists, the young student who turned up out of the blue, and who Andy got a bit of a crush on for a bit.

I want to like Gina and the actress but I just can’t. I fast-forwarded the scene of her and Tommy.

@TheUsualShitshow

Gina is picking up where Polly left off I think, irritatingly over-sexualised even when talking about what's for tea.

This just made me picture a scene of Gina and Nigella Lawson in the kitchen discussing dinner and sexualising all the cooking 😂

Haha totally the same energy

@Chocolattay Have you watched the Queen's Gambit? Anya Taylor Joy was incredible in it.

Personally, I think the show is less of an ensemble piece now. It's a dark monologue on one man's downfall with several walk on bit parts, apart from Ada who still shows some vintage Peaky Blinders arse kicking.

I did think that Diana Mitford's voice should have been posher, like the Queen when she was young. She sounds a bit modern.

I thought the bit where Lizzie, in the hospital, apologised for Tommy by saying 'he is recovering from addiction' was weirdly modern too. I don't think alcoholism was thought of/spoken of in those terms 90 years ago.

@TheUsualShitshow I agree. It wouldn't have been a thing back then.

It's a shame because the writing has always been so good.