Peaky Blinders’ Shining Easter Egg Hints At Tommy’s Dark Fate

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In Peaky Blinders’ season 6 premiere, there was an Easter egg that could imply that horror and evil are heading Tommy Shelby's way. The Easter egg was a reference to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining  — an adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name. Peaky Blinders season 6 picked up in the aftermath of the failed assassination attempt on Oswald Mosley. Defeated, paranoid, and afflicted by visions of his dead wife Grace, Tommy tried and failed to take his own life.

The assassination was foiled by the IRA, who also informed Tommy that they had killed Polly Gray. Previously, Polly predicted that either Tommy or Michael will die. After the fitting send-off for actress Helen McCrory, there was a time jump. Four years later, Tommy Shelby was sober and seemingly in control of his demons. At the end of Peaky Blinders' season 6 episode 1, however, Tommy was informed that his daughter had fallen ill and was seeing visions of a green-eyed man.After the revelation, Tommy called out for Polly, as if her presence was in the room with him. This scene transpired as Tommy called his wife Lizzie in a hotel. The camera lingered on his room key — he was in room 237.

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The room key was a reference to The Shining. In Stanley Kubrick's film, room 237 was a room in the Overlook Hotel, where the film took place. That particular room played a major role in the movie and was haunted by the ghost of a previous guest, Lorraine Massey, who had taken her own life. However, her ghost remained in the room and interacted with both Danny and Jack Torrance in the movie. This Easter egg hinted that grave misfortunes are heading Tommy Shelby’s way. Specifically, it implied that