Peaky Blinders - Série 6

After the depressing ending to the last season, which was further deepened by the death of Helen McCrory, the bar was extremely high, but Steven Knight wove a very powerful story about the search for love inside the soul of an insensitive Gypsy gangster into the historical setting of the beginnings of World War Two. It lacks the earthiness of the first five seasons, there’s much more politics, but the development is logical and makes sense. Perhaps in the role of a lifetime, Cillian Murphy gives Tommy Shelby’s departure for the New World incredible drive and solemnity. A final season as it should be. Good and fateful, full of death and farewells. P.S.: It was good to see the cameo by vocalist of the Sleaford Mods, Jason Williamson, in the final episode. (01/05/2022)

The ending of a famous series, which is done as always in a visually spectacular, stylish way, but the cool factor that made us love Peaky Blinders has taken a back seat. Thomas Shelby, played by a great Cillian Murphy, is fantastically written, but he’s unfortunately drowning in political pseudo-plots that often seem to be out of touch with reality, leaving the only strong line to be the family one. But that line too lacks something in the middle between start and finish. The final twist is OK, but I'd be in favor of not adding any more to the series. The “happy” series about gangsters became a “sad” drama about a man consumed by evil. In the sixth season, Peaky Blinders definitely lost their face of brutal bullies and gained the face of a family decimated by hardship. (23/07/2022)