Peaky Blinders: Full Series Recap before the Final Season

welcome to the man of recaps this is peaky blinders seasons one through five leading up to the sixth and final season welcome to birmingham england in 1919 it's a real nice place if you like industrial wastelands where everything's always on fire tommy shelby is the leader of the biggest gang here the peaky blinders so named because they sew razor blades in their hats and they go for the eyes they're in the business of betting on horse races which is apparently extremely profitable it's a family business tommy's older brother arthur is the angry one his younger brother john is the dumb one is also his sister aydah and his aunt paul pauly gray who was running the business while the boys were off fighting in world war one tommy is the smart one who's always got some master plan he's keeping to himself but one day during a routine robbery the peaky blinders accidentally steal some high-tech military-grade machine guns the british military was secretly shipping losing those guns is a big deal it comes to the attention of winston churchill himself and so he sends in a specialist to get them back it's chief inspector campbell he's a real hard ass who's willing to fight dirty and he's been authorized to use excessive force suspect one are the peaky blinders themselves but he's also concerned about communist agitators like freddy thawne who's inciting the workers to strike incidentally freddy thon is dating aydah shelby and gets her pregnant at first tommy wants to kill him but these two are all childhood friends and war buddies so he gets permission to marry her but inspector campbell's most worried about suspect 3 the ira without getting too deep into irish history ireland's rebelling against england and the ira would love to get their hands on those guns speaking of irish there's a new girl in town it's grace who gets a job bartending at the peaky blinders bar the garrison tommy instantly takes a liking to her but grace has a secret she's working undercover for inspector campbell she was from a loyalist irish family and her father was killed by the ira so her beef is personal eventually tommy meets with inspector campbell and tells him he has the guns but not where they're hidden it's like look i'm about to make a big move in the illegal horse betting business if you stay out of my way afterwards i'll give you the guns so first tommy gets his friend johnny dogs to arrange a parlay with the lee brothers they're a romani gang in the area and actually the shelby brothers are half reminding themselves on their mother's side but for now tommy picks a fight they're going to war with the lees and as is tradition they inscribe tommy's name on a bullet this one's for you meanwhile tommy's been fixing horse races which comes to the attention of the big horse race boss billy kimber at first he's going to kill tommy for fixing races without his permission but tommy's like hey look i'm at war with the lees and they're at war with you right now too we should join forces yes this is part of tommy's master plan he picked a fight with the lees on purpose to get in with billy kimber so he can later overthrow him arthur is like hey bro how about a heads up next time so tommy takes grace to the darby and these two start their romance and while the lee boys are stealing from billy kimber's men now the peaky blinders are here to steal right back so tommy's proved his worth to billy kimber and as a reward wants a legal betting license as part of the deal though billy kimber wants grace and tommy's gonna give her to him but he busted into saver saying hey sorry man you don't want this girl though she got the clap grace is like wow thanks i guess and so the deal goes through the peaky blinders are now partially legal it's the start of the shelby brothers limited meanwhile jon wants to get married he's fallen in love with lizzie stark who is the town prostitute in fact she's tommy's go-to prostitute and it's like hey i hear you're marrying my brother but how about one more go for old time's sake she's like oh tommy sure why not but it was a test she was supposed to say no he's like i'm not gonna let you marry my brother tommy has a different bride in mind for his brother esme of the leaf family yeah they're gonna unite the clans it's a good match these two are constantly doing it and now that they've made peace the shelby and lee families are united they're gonna team up and take down billy kimber meanwhile grace is still reporting back to inspector campbell tommy's really started to trust her and because she's good at math lets her help with the business but one day arthur lets slip where the guns are hidden danny whizbang fought in the war with tommy but is suffering from some serious ptsd in fact all the boys are the only way tommy can ever sleep is with the help of opium but one day dany freaks out and kills an italian so the italian gang demands justice there's nothing for it tommy's gotta kill his friend except he didn't kill him they managed to fake it they did bury something though that's where they hid the stolen guns congrats grace you did a great job in fact hey do you want to marry me but grace is like oh no you're like a father to me so she puts him in the dad's own in fact she's fallen in love with tommy and these two get it on and finally the day has come tommy's making his move on billy kimber but he had marked it on the calendar back when grace was still reporting to campbell so campbell tipped off billy kimber and billy kimber comes down in force before tommy's ready the peaky blinders are vastly outmanned but they are not outgunned because tommy kept one of the machine guns they just used it to break freddy thon out of prison and now he's here to even the odds but then ada shelby comes with their new baby like hey y'all men stop fighting and billy kimber agrees the only one that needs to die is tommy he takes the shot but the bullet is blocked by danny whizbang and tommy boom takes out billy kimber the rest of the guys just go home so tommy wins though it's bittersweet because he finds out grace was the undercover cop he still loves her though and she's like tommy i'm sorry let's run away together and leave this world behind us tommy considers it he flips a coin to make the decision for him but it's not to tommy that shows up at the train station it's the jealous wannabe lover inspector campbell here to kill her a gunshot rings out and season one ends on the cliffhanger season two picks up right there and we find out it was grace who fired the shot from her burst gun hitting campbell and fleeing off to america so now two years later tommy shelby and the peaky blinders are now the top horse racing crime gang in northern england but you know the big fish is down in the south it's london the shelby brothers go down there and start some trouble with the italian crime boss sabine but tommy may be punching above his weight because a beanie immediately tracks him down and is gonna kill him but he saved at the last minute when the cops show up including one with a badass wolf's head cane it is inspector campbell yes he survived grace hit him in the leg and he's meaner than ever he blackmails tommy into working for him assassinating irish revolutionaries so that if he's caught it'll look like organized crime and not the english government in the meantime tommy's plan of expanding into london involves befriending alfie solomon's leader of the jewish gang played by tom hardy he is a hilarious character who talks nonstop in his weird rambling mumbly voice but now working together the jews and the peaky blinders are trouncing the italians and around this time is when the show's catchphrase really gets going arthur shelby by the way had a plot last season where he got totally scammed by their dad he felt bad after this tried to hang himself but failed his dad beat his ass in the boxing ring so now arthur's gotten really into boxing and his unbridled rage he accidentally kills a kid one day arthur feels bad but someone introduces him to cocaine and now he feels great freddy thawne died unceremoniously during the time jump from an illness and ada mostly doesn't want anything to do with the family and jon just keeps doing whatever john does aunt paulie the season tracks down her son michael who was taken from her as a baby by child services michael's a real nice kid and at first probably wants to keep him far away from the business but michael wants to be part of it eventually they compromise and he becomes the accountant just for the legal part of the business lizzie stark is still the girl tommy goes to for his sexual needs she's like tommy we're basically friends with benefits you don't have to pay me but he always does and pretty soon he also hires her as his personal assistant when he goes to buy a horse tommy finds a new romance and noblewoman mae carlton they go for a drink where she's like look we are definitely not having sex but then immediately do but also grace is back in town visiting with her american husband she and tommy go for a drink where she's like look we are definitely not having sex but then immediately do eventually tommy's given his final assassination mission and to ensure his compliance and spectre campbell has his cousin michael arrested his mother paulie's not gonna let that stand she goes to see campbell herself and he's a real dirty dog she sleeps with him to get michael released then the tide turns on the london gang war front when sabine convinces alfie solomon's to turn on the peaky blinders and rejoin him so tommy goes to alfie to renegotiate and they're just gonna kill him but tommy's like hey remember when i tied my shoe coming in i planted a grenade that'll blow this whole place up it's a hilarious tense conversation as alfie tries to decide if tommy's bluffing or not but in the end it's like hey man you're crazy alright you got a deal and so it's time for the big climax on darby day tommy has to make his final move against zabini and also assassinate some guy for the british government just then grace shows up to add more to his plate she's pregnant and it's definitely tommy's because her husband's sterile she's like tommy i still love you and he's like alright girl i'll deal with this later so tommy kills this guy and blames it on the ira and since the king of england's here they pull all the cops to come protect him including the dirty cops that were protecting sabini's men so without their protection the peaky blinders swoop in and take all his territory the police do pick up tommy though but turns out these aren't real cops these are inspector campbell's guys who he assigned to kill tommy after his job was done but just as campbell thinks he won and paulie comes in for her revenge shoots him don't the peaky blinders unfortunately for tommy though this looks like the end but what's this one of these guys all betrays and shoots the other two congrats mr shelby you get to live cause winston churchill isn't done with you yet yeah campbell hated tommy because of the grace thing and wanted to kill him after the job was done but his boss winston churchill saw tommy was a war hero and is like nah i kind of like this guy so season 2 ends tommy shelby has won on all fronts season 3 begins on tommy and grace's wedding day her american husband conveniently died tommy's got a son now and as the top crime boss of all england tommy's legitimately very rich it's a beautiful wedding but business never stops because that very night he's working out a deal with the russians some former russian nobles are here in exile after the communist revolution the british government wants to sell them tanks to take back their country and stop the spread of communism but for diplomatic reasons they can't do it legally so they go to their go-to criminal tommy shelby he's branched out from horse betting the shelby brothers limited have a whole legal shipping empire now but they're still illegally shipping alcohol to america during prohibition but this organization is not run by tommy's friend winston churchill it's run by a creepy pedo priest who represents a clandestine british intelligence organization called the economic league or section d now the peaky blinders are the top dogs the other gangs have to pay tribute to him but they've gone too far with mr changretta when john has a personal beef and blinds his son and so at a fancy party he tries to have tommy assassinated but oh grace is the one who gets hit and no grace dies tommy goes to a real dark place and wants to torture mr shingrada to death but arthur shoots him like come on tommy we don't do that so tommy has depressed rebound sex with the russian duchess tatiana petrovna she seems like the fun sexy kind of crazy but turns out she's just like full-on crazy in fact one night while they're doing it she chokes him out until he almost passes out so he can hallucinate grace thanks i guess now checking in with the family arthur shelby also got married to a nice girl named linda who's a devout christian and made him pretty boring and paulie starts dating a painter ada gets a job at the library and jon just keeps doing whatever john does and so the russian tank deal is moving forward but tommy finds out the pedo priest is leaking their plan to the soviet embassy tommy goes to kill him but oh this guy was one step ahead turns out that's part of section d's full plan they're leaking the tank deal to the soviets so they'll blow up the train and after an act of violence on british soil the government will have just cause to act against the soviets publicly so tommy pretends to keep going through with the deal he brings in alfie solomon's to pick out which jewels he wants from the russians as payment he doesn't trust them to pay up though so he's digging a tunnel he's going to steal all the jewels anyway then he sabotages the tanks and tells the soviets hey they were trying to trick you to blowing it up now you don't have to but pedobree's got word of tommy's betrayal and captures his son it's like hey now you're going to give us all the jewels you steal and now you guys better blow up that train so tommy's got to go for the tunnel he was a tunneler back in the war still the jewels his brothers prepare to blow the train while cousin michael goes to rescue tommy's son yes michael's a really smart guy been helping to run more and more of the legal business but he kind of likes that gangster life he wants to get into the other parts too so he confronts peto priest who turns out peddled him when he was a kid so he kills him slow so one time he gets the sun back it's too late arthur and john didn't get the cancel orders boom they blow up that train tommy gets to keep half the gems too turns out he's splitting them with the duchess it was her idea to steal them from her parents tommy finds out it was alfie solomon's who betrayed his plan to section d but alfie's like hey man i'm too funny of a minor character to kill you gotta keep me around and so again tommy has won more or less this russian deal was more trouble than it was worth also the remaining members of section d want to cover this up and so the cops are on their way here right now to arrest the whole family tommy's like don't worry guys i have a plan i've already started working out a deal but it's like how about a little heads up next time and so season three ends as the entire shelby family except for tommy is going to jail so in season four tommy shelby's getting his family released because in the russians basement he found a letter from the king of england authorizing that arms deal they can't let that get out they've got to do what tommy says but section d is playing dirty they sneakily move up the executions and looks like the whole shelby family gonna get hanged it's not till the very last minute they get the stay of execution as a part of tommy's deal he also negotiated a ton more government contracts and an obe which is a real fancy british thing so one year later thomas shelby obe is a legitimately fancy english gentleman what is this new look i hate it and his whole family hates him now for almost getting him killed it's only his personal assistant lizzie stark who stuck by him but he still treats her like a prostitute michael has stuck by tommy too helping him run the whole business he's clearly tommy's protege and successor arthur's grown out longhair living the quiet country life with his wife linda who's really tamed his wild side and john shelby also retired just keeps doing whatever john does but this piece is interrupted when they all receive a black hand from the new york italian mafia yes it is adrian brody as luca changretta the other son of mr chang greta they killed he moved to new york and rise through the ranks he's now a top boss over there come back to birmingham to revenge his father so the family has to come back together to face this new threat and the gang's back in birmingham for more epic slo-mo walking shots michael goes to warn john but john's like hey i could take care of myself but just then oh more assassins and john is shot oh michael gets it too lucky he's okay but john shelby is dead in the bleak mid-winter now by the way there is a fourth shelby brother it's young finn who is like 10 years behind him but he's almost an adult now so it's time for him to join the business peaky blinders gear up for war and tommy hires one more soldier it's aiden gillian littlefinger as aborama gold he's a romani hitman and you know he means business cause of that ridiculous hair he's actually kind of a nice guy though and since her brush with death aunt paulie's feeling wild and free these two get hit on but even with all the security luka changretta makes it to see tommy he's on a whole different level it's like dummy i could kill you whenever i want he wants to kill tommy's whole family first though and save tommy for last assassins come for arthur but he survives by going back into beast mode yes being back in birmingham he's letting the wild side out now and even his wife linda's like oh well when in rome she kinda becomes a party girl too meanwhile there's a new character this season jessie eden a woman's labor activist and she actually organizes a big woman strike eventually though they go for a drink where she's like hey we are definitely not having sex and they don't that night anyway a few days later they get it on but tommy still hooks up with lizzie stark sometimes and the one time he doesn't pay her she gets pregnant soon though he's like hey girl you've convinced me i'm on the side of workers now let me in on your whole communist revolution but he's playing both sides because he also goes to the british government like hey i'm infiltrating the communist revolution for you i'll bring you agitators in exchange for more money for me one day aunt paulie has a secret meeting with luca changretta i'll give up tommy if you spare my son michael luca goes to visit michael just to prove he could kill him but he doesn't it's like tell your aunt bali we got a deal and when push comes to shove michael does not warn tommy about dan pauly's betrayal so luka's got tommy trapped or is it tommy who has luca trapped yes he's got a machine gun here but gun technology has come a long way since then it ends in a draw of course paulie wouldn't betray tommy this was all tommy's plan to lure luca into a trap but tommy's pretty mad at michael now for not warning him so he exiles him off to handle the business in america and so it's the big climax at a boxing match aboriginal gold's son is a small guy but a really great fighter versus alfie solomon's fighter a real big guy they call goliath but arthur notices that some of alfie solomon's coaches don't seem to know anything about boxing yes luca got to him first and made him monofer he couldn't refuse to betray tommy again so these hitmen oh strangle arthur tommy gets there to save him but he's too late arthur has dead after this luca trangrata feels like he's pretty much won he's realized it'll hurt tommy moore if he lets him live having taken everything from him but tommy once again had a secret master plan that he didn't tell us about until just this moment he made a deal with other crime bosses in new york that wanted to take out luca but couldn't do it on that turf but can do it here in england and turns out arthur survived they faked his death so could drop his guard he shoots luca changretta don't fall with the peaky blinders he tracks down alfie solomon's again who betrayed him again and this time they shoot each other tommy leaves him for dead and so once again tommy has won with no higher he could possibly climb thomas shelby retires but he's been fighting so long he doesn't know how to retire he goes on an awful depression bender he finally decides retirement's not for me he's got an idea of how to climb even higher tommy decides to run for parliament and being that he owns birmingham he wins he's got a new baby daughter now and to be respectable he marries lizzy stark sorry jesse eden and so as season 4 comes to an end tommy shelby the bookie from birmingham has made it to parliament season five begins with another time jump to october 29th 1929. if you paid attention in history class you know that's the day of the big stock market crash now tommy being a savvy guy saw this coming and told michael to pull all their funds out but over in america michael's been living the good life with his new girlfriend gina on nutella joy michael thought he knew better he did not sell and so the shelby family fortune has evaporated the crash has put all their legal business in disarray so it's time to pivot and refocus on the off the books illegal business and so the shelbys are back in birmingham once again michael gray comes back to birmingham too ready for the family to meet his new wife gina but michael's in big trouble right now not just for losing their money but because someone tipped off tommy that he was meeting with people trying to take tommy down michael denies this but until they can prove his innocence he's in the doghouse someone is trying to take tommy down they leave him a crucified scarecrow in his yard with land mines which dummy carefully removes this time it's a scottish gang the billy boys who come out of the woods singing their own theme song their leader is jimmy mccavern a real bad dude who pays a visit to aborama gold who's cut his dumb hair and grown an awesome mustache but they force him to watch as they kill his son tell tommy shelby we're coming for him so abrama goes on the warpath to get revenge it's fun times in scotland but tommy's busy down in parliament where turns out being a politician is pretty similar to being a gangster tommy's with the labour party he's a champion of the people and he's a very good speaker which attracts the attention of one oswald moseley he's like hey man you're really good at getting the support of the common people how would you like to do a slight pivot from communism into fascism now tommy is not into fascism but he's like sure man i'm in because just like with communism he's going undercover and reporting to british intelligence his contact these days is colonel ben younger who incidentally has struck up a relationship with his sister aydah and she's pregnant though she hasn't told him yet tommy's pivot to fascism attracts the attention of winston churchill who we haven't seen since season two he's like tommy you're not actually a fascist right and it's like no i'm going undercover to take him down and it's like right oh then carry on chap so tommy pretends to befriend oswald mosley who is just an awful person he's basically an english hitler in fact he's also recruited the billy boys to the fascist movement it's like hey you guys got to squash your beef we're on the same side now meanwhile linda is mad at arthur for reasons i don't fully understand i think she doesn't like who she's become when she's around him in fact she's been going back to church where she met a guy and they are just friends but arthur goes down there and does some peaky blinding on him so at tommy's fancy ballet party linda comes to crash it she's gonna shoot arthur but boom oh aunt paulie shoots her first abrama gold had just proposed to her so these two are getting it on nearby linda survives though she's pretty mad and arthur tries to apologize says they go back to the way things were but she doesn't want to hear it she leaves him for good tommy's marriage with lizzie stark is not perfect either he doesn't love her he's still in love with grace in fact tommy's been chugging opium this season so he can hallucinate grace and he's been having suicidal thoughts so he can see her again but these two do care about each other they're basically long-term friends with benefits so it works out long story short tommy gets some evidence against mosley but when he gives it to younger oh a car bomb mostly had more influence than we realized and this especially sucks for poor ada and so tommy realizes mosley's too dangerous he's gotta kill him tommy calls a shelby family meeting but before he can even start michael interrupts him okay go ahead now since the market crashed make extra money the peaky blinders have gotten into the heroin business with the chinese now michael's crunched the numbers and if they expand that business into america with the help of gina's family who apparently has criminal connections there the drug business is going to be way more profitable than everything else they do combined in fact he's drawn up a new business plan for the shelby company limited where tommy would basically retire and michael would take over time's like okay michael let me see that nope straight in the trash get the hell out of here you're banished again but his wife gina's like well i guess it's plan b then is michael planning to betray tommy even his mom's pretty mad at him for this in fact aunt paulie resigns from the business she's like look if it's a war between you and michael i can't be involved so with that out of the way it's family meeting round two where tommy's like alright so who wants to assassinate a fascist so at the big mosley rally he's not playing koi anymore he's going full-on fascist make britain great again a big part of mosley's speech by the way is blame everything on the jews and speaking of jews it's alfie solomon's he survived tommy's decided to mostly forgive him he is just too funny and likeable to kill so he helps organize a riot that serves as the signal for the assassination but wait what's this oh sniper killed abramo gold finally going to get revenge on jimmy mcaverne but oh he's killed two stabby stab they come for arthur too but oh he manages to get the jump on him yes someone leaked tommy's plan but apparently didn't tell mosley he doesn't seem to know anything about it so tommy's racking his brain trying to figure out who betrayed him but it was probably an accident from his younger brother finn earlier finn was like hey tommy i'm a character on this show and tommy was like you know what you are to give him something to do they set him up with an old soccer player to work together to fix football games but mostly these two did just a bunch of cocaine and so finn let it slip we're assassinating a fascist and this guy who has no particular loyalty to the peaky blinders reached for the phone and so as season 5 ends tommy shelby did not win he walks off into the fog where he hallucinates grace like time to join me and he puts a gun to his head does tommy shoot himself find out in the sixth and final season of peaky blinders if you liked this recap hit that subscribe button for more of the best recaps of tv and movies and if you loved this recap check out the join button and support the channel as a member

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Published: Tue Jun 22 2021