Peaky Blinders is Doomed To Repeat Season 5's History Problem

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Warning: Contains spoilers for Peaky Blinders season 6, episode 1.

While Peaky Blinders is partially ahistorical, season 6 is setting itself up to face the same history problem caused by the Peaky Blinders season 5 villain. Peaky Blinders season 6 sees the series jump forward in time another few years to 1933 and the end of prohibition. While Tommy Shelby might be trying to retire, his final job is set to repeat a history mistake for Peaky Blinders.

Peaky Blinders has always included representations of historical figures. In Peaky Blinders season 1, Winston Churchill was introduced and he has reappeared at various key moments throughout the series. In Peaky Blinders season 5, Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) has entered the world of politics and is introduced to Oswald Mosley (Sam Claflin). Hoping to prevent the rise of fascism in Britain, Tommy plots to assassinate Mosley and is encouraged by Churchill himself. However, in the Peaky Blinders season 5 finale, the plan is foiled by the IRA.

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The Oswald Mosley plot caused a problem for Peaky Blinders season 5 as he was cast as the main villain and Tommy Shelby’s plan to kill him could never succeed. Mosley’s history preordained his storyline: he formed the British Union of Fascists in 1932 and was eventually jailed in 1940, but he was never assassinated. If Tommy’s plan had been successful, it would have taken Peaky Blinders from bending history a bit to completely altering the course of British history in the run-up to World War II.Peaky Blinders season 6 is doomed to have its plot defined by established history once again. Mosley presumably remains as a threat in Peaky Blinders season 6, and the newly