Peaky Blinders Season 6 Ending: Did Tommy Shelby Break The Curse?
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Peaky Blinders season 6.
Peaky Blinders season 6's ending leaves the door open for the upcoming Peaky Blinders movie, with Tommy Shelby's gypsy curse coming to a head. The epic crime series received a mixed reaction to its final season, with a story that primarily focuses on Tommy, at the expense of other members of the Shelby clan. However, that focus allows the show's creator, Steven Knight, time to explore Tommy Shelby's psyche, including his obsession with legacy, and the breaking of his perceived gypsy curse.
Tommy Shelby spends most of Peaky Blinders season 6 running from what he considers to be the curse of his blood and the demons of his past. Losing both Grace and Ruby to curses, along with PTSD, has left him a shell of his former self. With Tommy believing he has an inoperable tumor, the ending of Peaky Blinders season 6 has him blowing up his home to make way for social housing, severing ties with his family, and going away to end his life. A vision of his daughter Ruby, though, leads to him discovering that he's been deceived by his doctor, on Mosley's orders. This brings him back from the brink, ending Peaky Blinders season 6 on a note of triumphant relief at him breaking his curse.
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As the clock strikes 11:00 am, Tommy Shelby notes the hour as Armistice, saying "peace at last." The weight of the curse he's been carrying around is finally lifted, further embodied in the next scene by the burning of the caravan, symbolic of a funeral pyre. As he rides away framed in the flames of the burning wagon, Tommy is free of the curse, free of his ghosts, and free of obligations. Whether Tommy’s curse
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