Peaky Blinders Season 6 Proves The Show's Impossible Problem

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After almost 10 years, Peaky Blinders season 6 has proved the show's biggest problem and its hardest challenge. The show had fairly humble beginnings following the Birmingham-based Shelby clan, headed by Cillian Murphy's Tommy, in their criminal exploits directly after the events of the First World War. But Peaky Blinders built an incredibly enthusiastic audience on the back of its compelling criminal organizations, wars with rival gangs, and flashes of hyper-violence. In stark contrast, Peaky Blinders season 6 is surprisingly slow and decidedly restrained, prompting negative reactions from fans.

Tommy's Peaky Blinders season 6 story is notably slower and more contemplative than the seasons which have come before it, and so far is distinctly marked by a lack of severe brutality. Contrastingly, the season is more introspective and allows for a deeper look into Tommy's grief-stricken and war-torn psyche. Tommy Shelby, too, is overall a gentler character than he used to be. The season began with him being 4 years sober, giving up alcohol as he noticed that he primarily used it to numb himself. His arc in season 6 focuses on him making one more complex deal before he finds a way out of the Peaky Blinders lifestyle for good. This concept, though, has unearthed Peaky Blinders season 6's problem.

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Peaky Blinders' biggest problem is that it can't advance in this way in the eyes of fans because they want it to stay the same as it always has been. Peaky Blinder's success, after all, was bloody, violent, and explosive, with main characters killed off as a direct result of the Shelbys' criminality, usually thanks to villains with similarly bloodthirsty characters