Peaky Blinders S6’s Broken Streak Hints At The Biggest Tommy Shelby Change
Warning: Contains spoilers forPeaky Blinders season 6, episode 1.
In Peaky Blinders season 6, episode 1, the show breaks its long-running streak by not using Nick Cave and the Bad Seed’s “Red Right Hand” as the theme song, teasing the biggest Tommy Shelby change. Peaky Blinders season 6 will be the final season of the TV show before a Peaky Blinders movie completes Tommy Shelby’s storyline. While spin-off shows are expected set in the same universe, it seems unlikely that Tommy will return for them.
Since Peaky Blinders season 1, episode 1, Nick Cave and the Bad Seed’s “Red Right Hand” has appeared as the show’s theme song. It has also appeared as part of the score for Peaky Blinders at other dramatic and violent moments. As well as the Nick Cave version, the show has included cover renditions of “Red Right Hand” from Arctic Monkeys, Fidlar, Jarvis Cocker with Iggy Pop, and Laura Marling. “Red Right Hand” is such an ingrained part of Peaky Blinders that Nick Cave’s one-time partner, PJ Harvey, recorded a special cover specifically for the Peaky Blinders soundtrack.
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After being such a major part of Peaky Blinders for 5 seasons, the lack of “Red Right Hand” from Peaky Blinders season 6, episode 1, “Black Day,” stands out and makes a larger point. The themes of murder and violence in “Red Right Hand” has become a symbol of Tommy’s (Cillian Murphy) own violent nature and removing it marks how much of a changed man he truly is in Peaky Blinders season 6. When explaining to Michael (Finn Cole) why he doesn’t drink, Tommy says that it is just “fuel for the loud engines inside your head.” Those engines were the things that often drove Tommy to
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