One thing we know is that none of this can last long. He does a bit of gardening and some voluntary work “driving old people and cripples”. Tommy’s volatile older brother Arthur (Paul Anderson) is living the quiet life with his wife and son. Polly (Helen McCrory), zonked on pills and booze, is having visions of spirits - the type that aren’t found in a bottle - and holding seances.

Michael (Finn Cole) is hitting the cocaine hard. The rest of the family aren’t exactly having a great time of it without him. He wouldn’t be inviting 26 gypsies living down by the river near his country house to join him, his little boy and his housekeeper for Christmas Day dinner if he was happy. Thanks to that incriminating letter by the King that Tommy possesses, the Shelby necks are saved with just seconds to spare, and then we’re shunted forward a year to December 23, 1925.Įstranged Tommy is living a life of “sex, freedom and whisky sours”. Nobody really believed when we saw Tommy shop the rest of the Shelbys to the law last year, that he’d be let live the life of a legitimate businessman, did they, or that his nearest and dearest would really go to the gallows? Okay, so that’s Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part III, but it’s also pretty much every screen racketeer that’s ever tried to get out of the business.īeing pulled back in this time is Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) in Peaky Blinders, which kicked off its fourth season last night in terrifically gripping, hugely confident style. Just when he thought he was out, they pulled him back in.

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