There was a character missing from many episodes of ‘Peaky Blinders’. Haven’t seen it since season 4 Esme Shelby, the widow of John Shelby (Joe Cole). But the return of his character Aimee Ffion Edwards It’s about to happen, as she returns to her mother-in-law in season six, which will premiere on Netflix on June 10 (the last season ended on April 3 on the BBC).
And a curse is to blame for this.
character We met him in the first season, esme fiction it was her daughter The Lees are a Romanian gypsy family that the Shelbys always fight. In one of them, 11-year-old Finn Shelby nearly died. Tommy, the leader of the Shelby clan, finds a way to end the feud and lure the Lees to his cause: arranged marriage.
John had previously been married to a woman named Martha, who died before the series began. He was later persuaded to marry a sex worker named Lizzie Stark to help him with the boy who had four children from his first marriage. But Tommy doesn’t accept it. in return He proposes to marry Esme.and thus ‘kills’ two birds with one stone.
At first John was reluctant to marry a woman he didn’t know, but when the wedding day came and he saw this Esme is young and beautifulhe already sees his brother’s plans better.
In season 4, when Italian assassins hired by the Changretta family kill John, Devastated by her husband’s death, Esme leaves the Shelbys with their children to “live with decent people”.. And he curses that family, saying “they will not have peace”.
In season 6, Tommy’s daughter Ruby falls ill and goes crazy with the words “Tickna mora o’beng” in Romani. Then the leader of the Shelbys asks Esme to return because she believes that both she and her daughter are victims of this curse. And the only one who can lift it.