Peaky Blinders Season 6 Is Already Replacing Polly
Warning: Contains spoilers for Peaky Blinders season 6, episode 1.
In Peaky Blinders season 6, episode 1, it is revealed that Polly Gray is dead, but the show is already working to replace Polly’s role in the narrative. From Peaky Blinders season 1, Polly Gray (Helen McCrory) played an important role in the show as one of the few people who could match Tommy Shelby and persuade him to back down. After Helen McCrory’s unfortunate passing in 2021, Polly Gray will not be seen in Peaky Blinders season 6.
Peaky Blinders season 6 picks up where the dramatic end of season 5 left off, but when Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) returns to his house he learns that Polly Gray has been killed. After a funeral, Peaky Blinders jumps four years into the future to 1933 and shows the new dynamics of the Shelby family in England. Lizzie (Natasha O’Keefe) and Ada (Sophie Rundle) are both at Tommy’s house for Christmas with their children, and Rudy (Orla McDonagh), Lizzie and Tommy’s daughter takes ill and has visions while reciting Romani words.
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Polly McCrory played a central role in Peaky Blinders and the Shelby family dynamic, and with her gone the family has lost their matriarch and Tommy Shelby has lost his crutch. However, these primary roles are being filled in for by other characters in the cast to keep the family and Peaky Blinders afloat. Ada Shelby’s handling of Arthur (Paul Anderson) marks her transition towards a leadership role in the same matriarch position that Polly once held. While Ada notes that she feels the loss of Polly, saying that Arthur wouldn’t have been allowed to get so bad if Polly had been around, Ada’s handling of the situation in the
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