Peaky Blinders - BBC

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I think I only got a halfway through season 5, if I remember correctly it turned into an incoherent mess of style over substance

Hmm, I'm ready for season 5, but this and other reports don't fill me with too much hope. I've found some episodes were quite turgid and difficult to get through, especially season 3, but I did manage to stick with it. There wasn't as much offscreen plotting in season 4 and several loose ends were tied up. With the announcement of the final season, I feel a duty to see it out!

Final season starts tomorrow at 9pm.

Too much politics in the last season and not enough gangland violence. Hope this final season isn’t same.

Looking forward to the new episode

Remember went to a gimmicky 'peaky blinders bar' in Birmingham last year

In fairness historical accuracy has never been a strong feature with the show when you consider the real life Peaky Blinders were pre WW1 and its unlikely 20s and 30s Birmingham was the cross between the Wild West and Al Capones Chicago that its depicted as.

Well episode 1 was better than anything from the previous season anyway, even if there was any killings in it. PC looks like a great new character in it.

That hour flew past last night, so I'm really looking forward to the rest.

But I also don't buy the 1929 IRA as an all-powerful, all-seeing CIA-like outfit.

Dalton Mills in Yorkshire has been destroyed by a major fire. A total of 5 fire crews were called in at 12 noon today to distinguish the blaze. They will remain overnight to get the remaining flames out of there. But not much will be saved there once it goes out.

The whole place is gutted.

A rubbish episode 2, it was just like all of last season.

have to put on subtitles when ever arthur or alfie appear, cause i haven't got an iota what they are saying😶

This used to be a must watch for me, but I missed the first episode of this season as I was away. Missed a good lot of episode 2 as well. Not sure whether it’s worth trying to catch up. I agree that the politics has become far too central. Frankly I don’t find the idea of Tommy becoming an MP in the least bit credible. I understand the writer wanted to deal with the rise of fascism etc, just feel they could have done it more subtly.

Stephen Graham features in tonight's episode, might be worth a goo for him alone

So will we see

Arthur really has been disappointing so far this season

As someone who has enjoyed this show immensely & stood up for it repeatedly when criticised I have to put my hands up & say that with the final season half way through this one has been a disappointment, I can appreciate a slow burner episode setting up a big delivery but 3 episodes of gypsies, dream sequences, chatter & banter between the different groups, female characters drinking whiskey, Tommy Smoking & Arthur being a pale shadow of his former self (& he was such a good character previously) is a tad too far. With 6 x 1 hour episodes to close the story out IMO it needed to move at a pace greater than this. Unfortunately the style over substance moniker fits this season well atm. 3 episodes left to save the show or it will go out with a whimper which is a shame after the highs of the first 2 seasons.

Definitely feels like it’s limping to an end. Even the Stephen Graham appearance was underwhelming. Just someone shoot Arthur, please. Can’t stand him. Horrible bullying bastard.

I genuinely don't know what 80% of the conversations in the last episode were even about. I don't mind a "talky" episode if it moves on the plot but I don't feel like it has. The entire setup with Ada, Mosley and Co left me scratching my head. With three episodes left I don't know where they're going.

yep i can't understand half the dialogue either, have to put on the subtitles - might as well be in a foreign language🙄

Big Improvement this week

MMmm....very marginally.

The bar hasn't been set that high in Series 6, so improvement is a bit of turd polishing.

Not sure I can agree. I think having been so invested in the series up until this one, the first three episodes were collectively such a let down that I have almost given up hope for anything akin to a decent ending. I watched last night & for the first time ever just felt I was passing time & seeing it out rather than having any real feelings for any of the characters, good or bad. The whole Oswald Mosley thing has IMO caused it to jump the shark so to speak, its just gone too far from its roots now and has lost what made it great in the first place. I'll see it through to the end but don't have much faith in the last 2 hours giving is anything like a satisfactory conclusion.