Spoiler Alert!
Oh My God! What was that episode?!
This is the Peaky Blinders that I know and love and I'm so happy this is how we're ending this perfect series!
Season 6 wasn't my favourite, that's the truth, but the show couldn't have ended in a better way! And there's so much to talk about, I don't even know where to start.
I guess I should start by saying that this episode had 1h21min, which means a lot happened! There were multiple plots here... With every deal that Tommy made this season, there's someone to 'take care of'. Although this was the last person to 'take care of', we start the episode with Michael being released from prison and promising to kill Tommy.
Then, we move on to that dinner Tommy had with Mosley, Diana and Lizzie, and we see the aftermath of that - with Lizzie leaving Tommy and the later allowing Charles to go with her. And now the real work begins.
So Tommy has business in Canada (Miquelon Island) and so he sends the rest of the Peaky Blinders to dismantle his house. In this meeting he gives false information (only telling the truth in Gypsy so only the trusthworthy ones can understand) - he tells them when to go to his house and Arthur follows up by saying that he will stay in the Garrisson celebrating his wedding aniversary with his wife - all of this so Billy can tell false information to the IRA (the next ones to 'take care of').
This plan is executed in two stages. First, at Tommy's house, Isaiah and Duke interrogate Billy and when this one doesn't say much, they tell Finn to kill Billy. Instead, he tries to kill Duke - what he doesn't know is that the gun doesn't have the first two bullets so he fails at killing Duke (and Billy, for that matter), which leads to Duke killing Billy and Finn being cut from the business entirely.
The second part of this plan takes plan at the Garrison, where Arthur is. The IRA goes there to kill Arthur but, of course, Tommy knows better and the Peaky Blinders had their own plan, which ended with Arthur, Charlie and Jeremiah catpuring the IRA. After a shootout in Garrison Lane, Captain Swing and the other IRA members are killed and finally Arthur avenges Polly's death.
With the IRA and Billy taken care of, there's only one last person to deal with - Michael.
As I said in the beginning, after Michael gets out of prison, he heads to Miquelon Island where he plans to kill Tommy. His gang had put a bomb with a timer of 30 minutes in a car, which Tommy sits in alone after meeting with Michael. The bomb explodes and Michael says that it's done. What he doesn't know is that Johnny Dogs had switched the bomb into another car, the car where Michael's associates where in which means they were the ones killed and not Tommy.
Michael's face after he leaves the pub and finds Tommy alive was priceless! Great acting! There's a few words switched between them but of course someone has to die, and since Michael failed at killing Tommy, that only means one thing - Tommy kills Michael with a bullet in his head (specifically his eye).
With all his business complete, Tommy says his final goodbyes to his family, with none of them knowing (apart from Arthur who saw the exams and had a pretty sad moment with Tommy earlier in the episode) that he has inoperable tuberculoma.
We fast forward one month, where we see Tommy in an unknown location, getting ready to shoot himself when, suddenly, he has a vision of Ruby, who tells him that he's not will and that he must light a fire and get warm. And that's when the most shocking thing happens! Tommy goes to where he had set a fire and in there he sees a newspaper with a picture of Diana and Mosley's wedding and guess who's in that photo as well? The damn doctor that told him was sick!!
That's right, turns out this was Mosley's plan all along - as Tommy said, they realised no one could kill Tommy Shelby besides Tommy Shelby himself so they made him think that his only way out was to kill himself. That's actually brilliant and something that didn't cross my mind. I guess we have all been thinking that Tommy was going to die by the end of the series so we never really questioned this - the writers did an amazing job at tricking us!
Post this, Tommy goes to the doctors house to kill him but decides not to. The series ends with Tommy returning to his camping ground and watches as a man sets his wagon alight and all his remaining possesions burn. He gets on his horse and rides off into the hills. The perfect way to end the series!
This series finale really had everything - tied loose ends, got revenge for most of the characters, had a ton of characters that we love back (including Alfie) and an amazing ending for Thomas Shelby - the only thing missing is really Mosley getting what he deserves (him and his wife) apart from that Perfect!
And I guess that's the end of Peaky Blinders... It's super bitersweet but I'm super happy with the ending so yeah... I'm satisfied. Let me know what you thought of the ending. Did you like it? Did you not? Did you think Tommy was going to die? Tell me everything and... I guess there's only The Flash airing right now so... I'll see you in the next The Flash rant.
Love,
Daniela.
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