Peaky Blinders: Tommy's Ending Twist Made 1 Season 5 Line Even Darker
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Peaky Blinders season 6.
Tommy Shelby's tragic Peaky Blinders ending has already been set up by season 6. Cillian Murphy's bright-eyed Birmingham gangster was diagnosed with an inoperable tuberculoma in the base of his brain. That chilling diagnosis followed the tragedies of Polly's death and Ruby's death, which combined to make Peaky Blinders season 6 the darkest chapter of the Shelby story yet, and now Tommy has more tragedy to come. Looking at Tommy's story, none of this should come as a surprise.
Peaky Blinders has long wrestled with the idea that Tommy himself and the Shelbys as a clan are cursed. The deaths of Grace (Annabelle Wallis) and John (Joe Cole) led to speculation that the Shelbys' Romani blood was cursed, with further revelations about the suicide of Tommy's mother adding to his belief in the curse. Despite Tommy's rise in both the criminal and political worlds, everything seems to have come with a cost, as Tommy's own fears over being dethroned by a rival like Michael Gray pulled the wolves in closer. While Polly warned Tommy that either he or Michael would die at the end of their war, a different Polly line actually explains why Tommy is doomed even better.
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None of Tommy's issues should have come as a surprise to anyone paying attention to Peaky Blinders' story. As recently as season 5, Polly Gray had offered a prophetic warning to any Shelby family member who sought to escape their life. Polly herself was looking for a way to escape «the life», hoping to go to Australia with Michael as tensions rose within the Shelby family after Tommy's fears of betrayal. She said: "We
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