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Lacey is often absolutely spot on with her observations, it's like a running commentary of my own mind with a different voice. Arthur is honestly just such a great Character ! He never got over his severe PTSD and therefore had his Addiction Problem coming for him...We understand his psychological Turmoil and yet he still does the dirtiest of Jobs for the Family. He has also been Bare-Knuckle-Fighting for several Years now and has become a serious Menace - that is a true 1920s Soldier right there, the true Definition of a loose Unit. I feel like there's never enough appreciation for the supporting Blinders. People like Johnny, Charlie, Curly, etc do so much dirty work for the Shelby's and idk I just like him a lot.

My overall rating of "Peaky Blinders"'s Season 3: 3/10.

That this episode is the best one of the season is not very good - it has a lot of very contrived moments, and I do mean "a lot", and "very". But, for what it's worth, it's framed in an interesting way (the entire story happening in the same location and during the same evening): and the story it sets up is interesting on a fundamental level - it kind of even makes me think that they'd not been able to quite get the story they wanted, and had to tweak things mid-season.

The idea of Arthur having a girlfriend such as Linda due to the Shelbys having become respectable now and having outgrown their street reputation, and his being conflicted about being a gangster hitman was... an interesting idea, even though a bit of a jump - I did think: "Man, they're basically rolling the die on what issues Arthur's going to be dealing with each season", but I was intrigued. In the end, Linda turned out to be a very different sort of character, a much less pleasant one - a pragmatic manipulator who knows everything, rather than a good if naive religious influence. I also thought the Cavalry leader, Grace's (newfound) relative, would probably be among the antagonists - I'm happy it didn't work out that way, because that would've been a rather cliché turn of events, but... given Grace's death would it not make sense for him to look into Thomas and the surrounding events a bit more?.. Thirdly, I thought that Ada's Marxism is now going to be a point of plot importance: with Thomas dealing with the White revanchists, there's going to be a family conflict... (Strangely, in this episode there was a bizarre moment where a Red spy pretending to be a White exile was having a pleasant conversation with an unabashed Marxist and nobody thought it strange, least of all she? But I thought, later on they'd polish these things off) In the end - no such luck, Ada gives up a comrade, eventually isn't even a Marxist anymore, or whatever, but keeps being able to use her nonsensical connections whenever prompted. Does the overall direction make sense? Nope. Tom should've died in the previous episode, S2 finale - Churchill's plan for him is a contrived one indeed.

(Also, Charles would have to officially count as Thomas' stepson for any of pre-story to make sense, right?.. That never comes up, somehow everybody knows that he had knocked up Grace, when she was married?.. And that's not a problem somehow?.. Whatever)