Clever Peaky Blinders Season 6 Detail Already Teased Arthur's Death
Warning: Contains spoilers for Peaky Blinders season 6, episode 1.
A clever detail in Peaky Blinders season 6 foreshadows how and when Arthur Shelby will die in the same way that John Shelby’s death was foreshadowed. Peaky Blinders season 6 will set up a final movie to conclude the main storyline for the TV series. While there are hints at spin-off TV series, they will likely focus on characters other than the three central brothers that were originally introduced.
Peaky Blinders season 6, episode 1, “Black Day,” opens with the reveal that Aberama Gold (Aidan Gillen), Barney Thompson (Cosmo Jarvis), and Polly Gray (Helen McCrory) were all killed by the IRA. After a funeral, there is a time jump forwards four years to 1933, where Arthur Shelby (Paul Anderson) is shown to have succumbed further to his previous drug habit. Seemingly now barely functional, he fails to appear for the children as Santa Claus, lying in a stupor on the stairs as Tommy’s son, Charles (Billy Jenkins) uses a toy Tommy gun and mimes shooting him and Arthur, playing along, pretends to die as he is shot twice, and while he pretends to have a gun, does not mime firing back.
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While this might seem like a light-hearted silly moment, or a sad portrayal of Arthur falling from grace once again, previous Peaky Blinder scenes mean that it is a much darker foreshadowing. In Peaky Blinders season 2, episode 3, Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy), Arthur Shelby, and John Shelby (Joe Cole) are interviewing able-bodied men to be used in one of their schemes. The Digbeth Kid (James Eeles), also known as Harold Hancocks, shows them a holster, and Arthur and John pull their guns before Harold reveals it
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