Peaky Blinders Season 6 Ending Changes Explained By Showrunner
Steven Knight, creator and showrunner of the hit historical seriesPeaky Blinders reveals how he changed the series’ original planned ending “to keep it going” beyond what was first intended. Knight, who has also written for the BBC’s The Detectives and Taboo, created the series in 2013 with the intention of following the exploits of the Shelby crime family between World Wars 1 and 2. Featuring a cast led by Cillian Murphy, the drama charts the meteoric rise of Murphy’s Thomas “Tommy” Shelby and his kin up the British socio-economic ladder. After starting as a former soldier and petty street thug, the Peaky Blinders season 5 saw Tommy climb even further as he was elected to the British parliament.
Peaky Blinders season 6, which premiered on BBC One in February and is due to hit Netflix in June, is intended to serve as the show’s final season, though it has been confirmed it will be followed up by a spinoff film. Having earned itself a swathe of awards and a legion of devoted fans, the show has even had a measurable impact on British culture as a whole, as confirmed by the UK's Office of National Statistics. In 2020, it inspired the puzzle adventure video game Peaky Blinders: Mastermind.
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Addressing the future of the Peaky Blinders franchise, Knight took the opportunity earlier this year to speak with Empire and explain his decision to move away from his original plan of ending the story prior to the start of World War II. Saying there is “the energy that is out there in the world for this”, he is pushing the story beyond its original boundaries “to see how [the show] can progress beyond that.” Check out his full comments below:
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