As actress Helen McCrory said at the press launch, Polly – unlike the male members of the gang who had been through the First World War – hasn’t faced the prospect of her demise in quite the same way before.īut when it comes to grudges, it’s hard to beat the Mafia delegation headed by Adrien Brody as Luca Changretta himself. But the lingering effects were toughest on Polly who seems to have gone a bit deranged in the intervening twelve months, boozing, holding séances, and talking to the dead. John (according to Esme) “s*** himself” on the scaffold. And it was clear that the impact was great even when we joined the action a year after the family’s last-minute repreive. Tommy also secured himself an OBE as part of the bargain, the cheeky sod.īut even in a world of rough, tough 1920s gangsters, people don’t easily forget being shopped to the police and standing on the executioner’s scaffold. In exchange for burning incriminating correspondence garnered from a Hampton Court robbery, they were saved just as the rope was quite literally tightening around their necks. Up till that dramatic conclusion, Tommy had managed to save key Peakys, including Helen McCrory’s Polly, from the noose with a last-minute appeal to the King. It was an opening episode which never let up the pace. “It’s not nice to see that kind of violence. “I got very tearful watching my brother John get shot,” he said. Paul Anderson, the actor who plays battle-hardened Arthur, was overwhelmed minutes after witnessing the series opener at the press screening. The threat – or “mafia s**t” as Cillian Murphy’s Tommy called it rather poetically, I thought – is revenge for the death of Luca Changretta’s father Angel at the hands of the Peakys in series three.Īnd it was disturbing to watch the fallout. “Merry Christmas to you and your family from Luca Changretta and family,” wrote the card, the meaning of which was never in doubt. But it’s definitely hello to perhaps the deadliest feud known to the Peaky Blinders as the New York Mafia descend on Brum following the delivery of a Black Hand – Cosa Nostra-speak for an unmistakable promise of death.

Did Peaky Blinders just kill off two of its main characters?.

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