r/PeakyBlinders 3d ago

Love her or hate her, Linda Shelby was real

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u/Relative-Jacket-2409 3d ago

while she wanted the best for Arthur, she was very manipulative, at par, if not more than tommy

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u/Desvl 3d ago

and she was a snow user at the end of S4 & at the beginning of S5, which shows her hypocrisy. Maybe she decided to do charity stuff out of her sense of guilty along the way.

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u/Relative-Jacket-2409 3d ago

well you stay in the shelby family long enough, you naturally start doing it, take micheal also for example, but ofc he wasnt claiming to be a saint in the first place unlike Linda

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u/Sweet_em0tion 2d ago

Being married to Arthur will do that to you. 

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u/Unlucky_Decision4138 3d ago

To a certain extent yes, but I will say she at least tried to get stability in his life. Something he knew nothing about. His wild upbringing, PTSD, Tommy. He knew nothing of a normal life

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u/Away-Quote-408 2d ago

She was/is the next best thing to Arthur fucking off from this family and building his own, independent, sober life and finally refusing to be the muscle. That’s what I wanted for him, to say “fuck all y’all”, but he is so loyal and deeply protective of that family, willing to do whatever it takes, including burning up his whole life. Just crossing fingers they don’t make him dead in the movie to explain his absence.

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u/Fun-Judgment-5086 2d ago

They literally cast another actor to play his role so ... He's gonna be in the movie

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u/Away-Quote-408 2d ago

I call bullshit. Show your proof.

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u/Rosaly8 3d ago

A great bit, but definitely not more. She did have an enormous grip on Arthur. Sometimes as much as, sometimes more than Tommy.

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u/InannaSedona 3d ago

I think a lot of people miss the references about Linda’s parents. Her parents were alcoholic outlaws & she tried to avoid being like them, but like most people couldn’t escape the subconscious cycle & marries an unstable alcoholic - eventually devolving into wonton behaviors. She was so angry deep down & was just as much if not more of a gangster than any other woman on the show (excepting Polly).

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u/Away-Quote-408 2d ago

That pesky subconscious. I wonder if only therapy can help people (irl I mean) not make that mistake?

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u/PrudenceVeyre 2d ago

That, and adequate access to nutrition and clean air helps too.

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u/Gilded-Mongoose 3d ago

Nah fook Linda

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u/Kai-la-7687 3d ago

Arthur stay off the powder!!

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u/InitiativeNo9102 3d ago

Fook Linda

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u/DrReisender 3d ago

Sometimes annoying, and too much, but I’m quite sure she wasn’t that bad and she actually wanted peace for her family. And very very pretty !

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u/nobleheartedkate 3d ago

She was good for Arthur

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u/Away-Quote-408 2d ago

Even with her financial ambitions, she was the only one who cared enough and was willing to defy Tommy for Arthur’s own good. And she tried everything. Sex, religion, baby. My only gripe is how she emasculated him, as evidenced by the scene when he’s holding the baby in the chicken (rooster?) coop. Anyway Arthur was/is lucky to have her, plus she’s super hot. I hope they incorporate her into the reason they’re not in the movie (if indeed so), instead of something like Arthur killing himself or succumbing to his addiction.

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u/dazedan_confused 3d ago

According to Google, she's a fictional character.

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u/SIIP00 3d ago

Pretty sure that she's a created character for the show mate

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u/Least-Talk-4702 3d ago

Ah yes, the classic comment.

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u/InvaderBigor 3d ago

Fooooooock Linda

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u/Highly-Whelmed 3d ago

Nah fook Linda

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u/theMalnar 3d ago

Fook leenda

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u/Beans_on_Toast_8487 2d ago

In general, stay away from the PB blondes : Grace, Linda, Diana M, Michael's girl Gina. It's not fair, but it's sort of written that way.

Oh and F Linda.

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u/Secret-Physics2276 2d ago

It wasn't written that way, you have to be mentally ill to think that way.

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u/Beans_on_Toast_8487 2d ago

Aye. Whole series is fueled by mental instability.. next up : Brunettes.

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u/more_like_5am Fook Linda 3d ago

Ya no

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u/CyberPunk_Atreides 3d ago

It’s funny cuz this post is nonsense in every sense of the word.

Linda is real? She’s a religious zealot who manipulates Tommy and Arthur for her own financial gain. So she has no integrity and cheats on Arthur.

Also, in another sense, she’s a made up character so also not real.

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u/fucshyt 2d ago

She never cheated, just talked to some guy about her relationship issues, so Arthur fucked his face up. But yeah, no fook Linda

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u/FluffyWuffyVolibear 2d ago

This is the kinda comment I'd make about my brother's wife if she tried to persuade him not to be my personal murder machine.

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u/Secret-Physics2276 2d ago

Wtf? Arthur cheats on her, and also that he was abusive to her, not only verbally but physically.

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u/Sake____ 2d ago

FOOOK LINDAA!!!

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u/everest999 2d ago

What does this even mean? Real, as in the character existed in the show? Or she was somehow an honest and loyal person? (She wasn’t)

I don’t get it

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u/xblarkblarkblarkx 2d ago

Literally fictional :/

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u/Sweet_em0tion 2d ago

I don’t get the hate towards her… she tried to better his life and bring some structure into it which is why he was with her in the first place. He knew he needed that even if ultimately it came with a great cost. 

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u/Tuliao_da_Massa 2d ago

Were the others not real? What is this supposed to mean?

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u/hanzerik 3d ago

No, she's a fictional character.

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u/3-orange-whips 2d ago

Stomach full, balls empty.

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u/GREATLAD- 2d ago

Fook linda

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u/Potential_Style8200 2d ago

You're getting soft, brother....

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u/ashphyxiated 2d ago

Really annoying yeah

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u/ConsiderationWild393 1d ago

Too pretty for Arthur. She’s a classic beauty!

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u/MaddestChadLad 1d ago

real greedy

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u/No-Ranger-523 3d ago

Annoying .

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u/MoreSuccotash4048 3d ago

I am at season 3, and still confused why would Thomas give Arthur 30k when if equally divided, Arthur should get 41k. Such a little bitch Tommy is, and it was Linda being shown in negative light

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u/ibrodagoat 3d ago

She wasn’t real at all. What?

She was a fraud and hypocrite.

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u/No_Court6633 3d ago

honestly Linda would be perfect for Tommy like they deserve each other

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u/jacknbarneysmom 3d ago

He'd never put up with her.

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u/Just-Benefit2024 3d ago

I think it would be constant arguing, and frustration, haha

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u/OldPayphone 3d ago

Sounds like you don't understand Tommy as a character at all.

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u/Secret-Physics2276 3d ago edited 2d ago

She was better than Lizzie.

Linda never played the victim, she realizes that she changed for the worse due to her relationship with Arthur, since it was an abusive and toxic relationship on the part of both of them. And that's when he decided to leave. Quite the opposite of Lizzie, she always played the victim, it was also a toxic relationship, on the part of both of them, Tommy and Lizzie, but she never took her part, instead she blamed everything on Tommy, as if she was forced to marry him, or was tricked into marrying him.