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Yes, never mind the red right hand, the entire Shelby family clan each receive a black right hand – the symbol that’s someone’s gonna kill ya! – from the Changrettas, aka the Sicilian Mafia, who the Shelbys wronged by killing Luca Changretta last series.Įnter Adrian Brody who has all of about thirty seconds on screen after stepping off the boat but manages to make them count. She’s bound to be a delightful thorn in Tommy’s side, but soon enough Tommy’s more concerned about being shot in the back. Peaky Blinders lives up to her reputation as a worthy foil. Estranged from the rest of the group, it seems his biggest problem is Communist firebrand Jessie Eden (Charlie Murphy) a woman who we know is formidable enough to take him on because a) she brings with her her own version of Nick Cave’s ‘Red Right Hand’, and b) Google her, she genuinely took no shit. So too are his actions, past and present. He may seem untouchable, but he isn’t immortal. It’s a small visual affectation to remind us that Tommy is growing older. Jonathan Crane in Batman Begins‘ range of eyewear. The only change is that he’s now wearing a pair of spectacles from the ‘Dr. Four series in now and Cillian Murphy wears the part like a glove (or perhaps, more aptly, a peaky cap full of razors), often communicating more with a single exhalation of cigarette smoke than an entire line of dialogue. They’re all trying to subdue the memory of a rope around their neck, but Michael explains it more succinctly: ‘They’re all fucked.’ You really buy it too: top performances from all of them.Īnd as for the threepenny-bit in this crumbled, family Christmas pudding? Tommy Shelby is living a solitary life of ‘sex, freedom, and whisky sours’. These aren’t the characters we’ve come to know. They’ve come a long way since 1918, and fallen almost as far.Īrthur’s been domesticated to the point of castration, Michael’s coked-up enough to be able to cope, Aunt Pol is a seance-addicted pill-addict, John’s hidden away in the country. And we open with that pressure being exerted with John Lewis force on a fractured Shelby family.Ī year after John, Michael, Arthur and Aunt Pol narrowly escaped the noose (in an opening few minutes so relentless that it drags the viewer to the front of their seat by the neck and tells them to stay the fuck there), and the Shelby clan are a disparate group, removed from one another and their humble Small Heath roots. There’s the pressure to be near kith and kin. Whether we like it or not we all feel its pull. Yes, the season of goodwill hangs as ominously as office-party mistletoe over the opening episode, and though it might seem like odd paper to wrap such a bullet-hard show in, it’s entirely fitting. Thank goodness then that we can take refuge from it all in a new series of Peaky Blinders, where it’s naught but the usual mix of testosterone-soaked tweed, cig smoke, cordite, and…Christmas?! Christmas! Comes earlier every year, dunnit? Why it’s only mid-November and already we’re deluged with selection boxes, snowmen, and the crinkly sound of Noddy Holder slowly defrosting from his cryonic slumber at North Pole HQ. |
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