‘Peaky Blinders’ (season six): goodbye to some cult knives

And poor Mike is right: ‘Peaky Blinders’ is really great. Not only that, but millions of fans around the world have embraced the creation of creativity. Steven Knight (‘Eastern Promises’) as a good reason to wake up day after day. It has it all: larger-than-life characters and emotions, dizzying cliffs, stylized violence or a rock-solid soundtrack. Although Knight describes it as interwar British history, It is not as precise a historical drama as the free reworking of a mythology. marked this creator in his childhood.

We refer to the actual bandits of the title who operated in Birmingham between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century and, according to some folklore, are called (‘Sharp Visors’) because they planted razors on their heads. to blind your enemies in an instant. In Knight’s view, the leader of the Peakys is an unscrupulous “entrepreneur” and later socialist MP Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy), followed closely by his brothers Arthur (Paul Anderson) and John (Joe Coleleft the series partly because it was the ‘Cillian show’).

group of enemies

Tommy, a former sergeant major, has spent five seasons zig-zagging—beatings, cuts, bullets, and murders—for perhaps inaccessible dignity. “I’ve learned something these days,” she said in season three, right in her classroom anxiety attack. “Those bastards, those bastards are worse than us. Politicians, goddamn judges, lords and ladies. They are worse than us. And they will never receive us in their palaces“.

Although there seems to be no reliable data on the ethnic origin of Peaky Blinders, Knight presents a working class family of Irish Traveler and Roman gypsy blood. This does not prevent them from facing off against Irish (pro-secession and anti-partition agreement) or Roma families. A host of enemies, including Georgian aristocrats, the Scottish Billy Boys gang, or the leaders of interwar fascism.

First episodes without pol

At the end of the fifth season, the assassination of Oswald Mosley (Sam Claflin) wasn’t quite finished, and Tommy wasn’t taking it very well: we left him (literally and psychologically) in the fog, perhaps on the verge of blowing his mind. at the beginning sixth and final Netflix 10 opens on Friday, we meet him again at the same point. He will live for now. Arthur pulled the bullets out of the gun. And Tommy, lying in the mud, listening to his wife, Lizzie (Natasha O’Keefe) reproaches him for considering leaving his family without saying goodbye. The women of the series, from Lizzie to the communist sister Ada (sophie rundle), are those who put common sense. They were all dominated by Aunt Polly (Helen McCrory), who was in charge of the treasury and affairs of the heart. These are the first episodes without McCrory, who died of cancer in April 2021 before filming began.

Polly’s opinion continues to impress Tommy as to what his final surgery should be. In 1933, in the throes of prohibition, he visits the island of Miquelon to make an offer to his cousin Michael.Finn Cole) and their colleagues in the Boston Irish mafia. His idea is to use the infrastructure of the old alcohol smuggling trafficking in North America with the opium they planted for the Triads; Something that would require permission from Gina’s uncle, Jack Nelson (Anya Taylor-Joy), Michael’s wife. They pursue blood betrayals, defiant ‘wingers’ (the aforementioned Gina), multiple criminal chess moves or blatant gypsy curses, all caught by the director. Anthony Byrne with a renewed and refined cinematographic momentum, with a completely cloudy lyricism.

what will come next

As Sophie Rundle explains on RadioTimes.com, the series finale isn’t “clean and clear” and “keeps the world alive”. What would have been in the beginning, as we said, semi-secret interwar historywill come to the cinema to tell “an untold story of WWII,” as Knight explains. And it is planned to go beyond this conflict in future divisions. Season six is ​​fair, warns the creator, “the end of the beginning.”