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A slower episode than the last one in my opinion, but still enjoyable nonetheless. Things aren't looking very bright for Tommy as he suffered two seizures in just one episode, and Ruby is extremely ill. Both of their fates are up in the air right now and I'm so unsure whether they'll live or not.

Seeing Alfie again was great, He's gone a bit soft now and it was entertaining watching Tommy try and bring the Alfie we know and love out again. Arthur is once again too high off of his head to do anything but there is hope now as Tommy has revealed that Linda is possibly open to giving Arthur another chance. Hopefully we'll see Arthur back to normal in the next couple of episodes. Tommy finally met with Gina's uncle, I'm unsure as to what Captain Swig's motives are and it was fun to see the condescending Oswald Mosley again.

The last few minutes were incredibly tense with Tommy rushing to the house to check on Ruby, I was glad to hear that Tommy is going to Esme for help, it'll be interesting to see her again.

Overall a decent episode, can't wait for next Sunday.

Pros )The Continuity issue has been resolved, favorite characters are back , Alfie's here . Changed . Ada did a better scene than just parenting . Its politically confusing , new players are in the market . American dude was okay (still don't care,not sorry) , its slowly taking turns .

Cons) yeah why not , Arthur's still wasted . (Don't know whose idea was it to make such a great character turn into a drunken fighter) please keep your Linda excuses , Arthur was the baddie waaay before Linda showed up . IRA s here , American Gangster is here & its all getting jumbled up . Tommy as i know likes these bets but we viewers don't know anything about new character s ( Mosley's mistress , dude Americana and the Irish woman ) ; they are hollow , so if i may ask Was it necessary to add these many transparent characters? To be honest they're not excellent in acting & they're dragging the actor who plays Oswald Mosley .

I miss finn (yes another Shelby! Wherebouts- still unknown) . M tired of seeing peaky blinders slowly turning into penny dreadful . Its a terrible idea & connecting it with Thomas's ptsd (happened only once or twice ever on the show) feels awkward . I can't connect with Thomas's daughter , we viewers haven't got any clue how to . That badass charm is completely gone & Esme coming for a small reprise isn't going to change the fact we got characters that have few lines and even fewer screentime . Why every episode is under 1 hour? 6 episodes like this then finished?

2 years i waited 2 years . Considering that , this season is currently just at par .

There is something so terrifying about the gypsy magic it really does chill me to my core. I felt a coldness shoot through my spine and soul when Ruby was talking about The Grey Man.

I must admit this is the only series that gets me feeling these kind of emotions it is just an absolute masterclass on an epic scale. It is a shame that the series has to end here but as with most brilliant series, they aren't usually dragged out because that's when the writing gets poor so you have to accept it and be grateful for what you're given.

10/10 well done to everyone involved and I'm sure there is more greatness to come.

Warning: this Peaky Blinders review contains spoilers.

No wonder he's having seizures;

Tommy's last deal is next-level complicated. He's intercepted President Roosevelt's route to British and Irish fascists to undermine their goal of installing a fascist leader in Britain and ultimately ushering in the ideology of their "friend in Berlin". To do it, he's pretending to sell Churchill's secrets to Jack Nelson in exchange for a spurious opium deal that he's really doing with Nelson's Jewish enemies in order to unseat the kingpin from his Boston throne.

If this final strategy comes off, Tommy will have snuffed out fascism, avenged Polly's murder, made more money than God, and earned his escape. That is, if Michael Gray, a brain tumour or a gypsy curse don't kill him first. And seeing as Tommy's adopting a 'keep your friends close and your enemies in prison' approach to Michael, the smart money's currently on the latter.

Gypsy curses are real in Peaky Blinders. That's how Ruby could get the all-clear from a doctor at the start of this episode and be coughing up blood and hearing voices by the end. "The Grey Man" with green eyes is coming for her and for her daddy, and daddy knows exactly who she's talking about: a malevolent spirit in the form of the green-eyed Prussian soldier who was the first person Tommy ever killed - the same soldier Tommy wrestles with whenever he loses consciousness, and the same one he saw when he descended into an opium-induced sleep in season one. Whenever Tommy's mind is blasted by opiates, it takes him back to the tunnels in France, to the site of his original trauma.

Fear for Ruby has taken Tommy's conscious mind in another direction - towards Esme Shelby-Lee, John's gypsy widow and the most recent person to lay a curse on the family. Can Esme save Ruby from what afflicts her? Is Tommy past saving? Lizzie and Ada both warn him this episode that he's coming close, not that he heeds either of their caution. There's work to do before the Peaky Blinders can rest.

We never saw Tommy Shelby on the campaign circuit - his seat in parliament was bought with Communist secrets - but you can see why he'd win the vote. The man's a natural orator. South Birmingham's Labour Party volunteers drank up his impassioned protest against the National Government and King George, against cuts in wages, welfare and dignity, and against the working people absorbing the blows of the rich's booms and busts. (A "trade mission to America" was it, Tom? I suppose that's exactly what it was.)

Tommy's speech here provided a kind of editorial balance to Mosley's vicious post-ballet rhetoric last season. With minimal tweaks, both could still be heard today, which is the point Peaky Blinders is making We're moving in circles. Danger ahead.

Peaky Blinders has always been a political drama - politics makes war and war made Tommy Shelby - so its engagement with fascism in the last two seasons not only feels natural, but necessary. It's a history lesson illustrating some of the show's major propositions: that fighting evil is a cure for nihilism; and that the upper ranks have zero claim to moral superiority over the working class. As Tommy said this episode, "Fascism is quite the thing among the very best people."

Enter: one of the very best people, Lady Diana Mitford. Diana's introduction fascinated, perhaps more so than the arrival of the much-discussed Uncle Jack or even the return of Alfie Solomons. Diana was more chilling than both of them combined. Titled, arrogant and cruel, she was introduced as a 24k carat villain even before she alluded to being pals with Hitler (Chancellor of Germany for around a year by this point). Amber Anderson's character swigged champagne and beamed patronisingly, singing her and Mosley's hate-filled ideology with a smilingly soft voice. She treated Lizzie like dirt and Tommy like a tradesman she thought she'd charmed and was planning to stiff on the bill. At least 'Elizabeth' landed one blow, even if it only glanced her ladyship.

Diana's entrance, with the cascading protest powder and the spotlight, could scarcely have been more dramatic. It was only pipped for impact by Tommy's red-lit descent to Alfie's realm of the underworld soundtracked by Nessun Dorma, and the speck of Jack Nelson in that vast, empty cathedral.

In the four years since Alfie was shooting seagulls on the Margate coast, he's gone into decline. The old Alfie's still in there though, as seen in that lightning-fast switch from his operatic and Irishman digressions, to asking the price of opium in tonnes. A Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy scene requires exactly what it was given here, a big drum roll followed by an empty room with enough space for the two of them to work their volatile magic.

Subscribe Tommy's meeting with Jack Nelson had a grander setting but less chemistry. Towered over by actor James Frecheville, Tommy looked diminished and dominable, which was uncomfortably unfamiliar for fans used to seeing everybody orbit around his still self-possession. Great backdrop though; there's really no such thing as a mundane meeting in the world of Tommy Shelby. Even his Garrison Tavern conflab with 'Captain Swing' was lit like a gala performance. Another little politics lesson there, in that neat explanation of the ends of the curve at which socialism and nationalism meet.

He's in the middle, unresolved, a bridge between ideologies, Tommy tells The Daily Mirror. In public maybe, but in the shadows, he looked far from impartial leaping into that stylised silhouetted fight between the Jewish protestors and the blackshirts. Cosh out, blackshirts down. Was Arthur even sober enough to know who he was fighting? Arthur's opium addiction shows the human cost of the powder trade, just as Tommy's cracked mind shows the human cost of war.

Is it cracking for good, Tommy's mind, or are the seizures all part of the painful work of healing? Not in a medical sense, but in the spiritual realm that so much of Peaky Blinders exists in. By wrestling with the very first life he took, is Tommy experiencing catharsis on his route back from nothingness, death to life, darkness to light. As he told his IRA contact, Tommy Shelby is changing

Peaky Blinders continues next Sunday the 13th of March at 9pm on BBC One.

I really like the episode . It have interesting events and we see Shelby fight for his problems . We see also that his daughter have some big problems too . I enjoyed it even if it have too much talking . We see again Alfie Salomons and that was pretty nice . THomas still have some business to do . We see Michael who warn his wife against thomas Shelby. Need to see more . The next episodes need more mysteries and revelations really.

I loved the episode. Peaky Blinders is just first-rate from start to finish. I do have one complaint though.

Note to James Frecheville.(Jack Nelson): You attempted to do a Boston Accent, but it ended up sounding like an Australian trying to fake a Boston accent. It was so jarring, it took me right out of the episode. If you can't pull off an authentic Boston accent, please don't try. Just use a generic 'American' accent and you'll be fine.

So many people expect actin when it comes to anything these days, with attention spans dwindling we are losing such great shows like this!

Yes a lot of this episode is talking but the undertones and reading between then lines of trying to work out exactly is going on just brings me joy in knowing that these were still being made.

Alfies return is poetically terrifying in knowing if hes fly off the handles or he really is just a man without a lot of influence.

Overall waiting a week to full understand this episode is great and how shows show be released and not binged to just say your the first to watch it!

The show isn't the same as it used to be. Now, that's not the worst thing, but it's clear that this show wants to go in a different direction. But, compared to the first two seasons, it's clear the show has progressed on and on. This is now about political inteuige and Tommy's mental health. And I don't hate it - Both of those plotlines are interesting. The show has just... Changed. It's interesting to see Ada take a bigger role, and... It was cool to see Alfie back, but I just don't know how I feel about him after he came back. Diana seems like an interesting character, and Laura is definitely a character I'm not a fan of. I think Anya Taylor-Joy should play more femme fatale characters, she's really good at playing Gina. Ruby is definitely getting worse, and I feel Lizzie's concern for her, it's very authentic. This episode was just fine, and I'm happy Esme is coming back into the show... A fine enough episode for this show.

I think Tommy because of being a solider in WW1 and his intelligence for tactics and stuff. He can see the spark of WW2 starting and he actually wants to try help stop it but he actually wants to get his family out and that life or death struggle is breaking him. Also, implication here, so far from I can tell, is that Ruby has inherited some medium type ability that Polly had, with her visions and the like, and that Ruby is getting a full psychic blast of doom to come. Sounds kind of silly to break it down like that, but this show has always flirted a bit with the mystical and so it feels right to me, and a good way to keep Polly and Helen McCrory's presence front and center.

Solid episode. Great to see Allie back and I like the introduction of Nelson. I think he'll be a pretty good character. Not a huge fan of the mayors new wife (forget her name) and hoping to see a good comeback from Arthur and Johnny Doggs.