Why Peaky Blinders Was Right To Kill [SPOILER]
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Peaky Blinders season 6, episode 1.
Peaky Blinders killing Polly Gray in season 6, episode 1 was the right decision, changing the show's dynamic and giving great development to several characters. After the tragic death of Polly's actress Helen McCrory in 2021, Peaky Blinders' season 6 deals with Polly's absence by bringing the character's journey to an end. Aunt Polly only appears in her elegant portrait, which adds to her powerful send-off at the beginning of the season 1 premiere. Her funeral is also a moment that announces a dramatic change for Tommy (Cillian Murphy) and Michael (Finn Cole).
Season 6 episode 1 sees Tommy informed by the IRA that they have not only stopped the assassination of Oswald Mosley (Sam Claflin), but they have also decided to remove Tommy's crutch, Polly. By restructuring Shelby Company Limited, the IRA has the upper hand over Tommy, and he ostensibly gives up on defeating Mosley. Peaky Blinders then jumps four years into the future, showing Tommy dealing with new situations arising from the end of the Prohibition in December 1933. But as Tommy meets Michael for the first time since Polly's funeral, it becomes clear Michael wants nothing more than revenge on Tommy, as it was his schemes and ambitions against Mosley that got Polly killed.
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Four years after Polly's death, Tommy is a different man, having forsaken alcohol, Arthur (Paul Anderson) has reached a brand new low, Finn (Harry Kirton) is threatening to go off the rails, and Ada (Sophie Rundle) is assuming the position of the Shelby matriarch. None of these great changes could have been brought to this level of
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