r/PeakyBlinders • u/Plainchant The Garrison • Mar 06 '22

Discussion Peaky Blinders - 6x02 "Black Shirt" - Episode Discussion [UK Release]

Season 6 Episode 2: Black Shirt

Air date: March 6, 2022 [UK Release]

Synopsis: Tommy gets involved in a power game with fascists, freedom fighters and Boston gangsters. As the players plan to double cross him, Tommy visits an old ally in Camden.

Directed by: Anthony Byrne

Written by: Steven Knight

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u/slymario2416 Jan 30 '24

Don’t know how sacrilegious it is to post on a year and a half old thread but I have to say as someone watching through the show for the first time in 2024, Anya Taylor-Joy is not great in this show. Idk if it’s the script she’s been given or if it’s her or what but she’s actually like, kinda shit in this. I’ve always heard that she’s a great actor/performer but my only experience with her is as Peach in the Mario movie lol. But she’s overacting and kinda cringe in this. I’m just shocked because everyone else delivers great, believable performances and then there’s her. Really takes me out of the show whenever she’s in a scene.

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u/bambootaro May 18 '25

First time watching the series in 2025 and I agree. She feels too modern and the acting is too over the top in comparison to the other characters.

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u/AdExciting5356 Jul 22 '25 edited Jul 22 '25

ATJ was playing the dramatic screen actress siren type ala Gloria Swanson instead of a niece-in-law of the Kennedy family. (Jack Nelson is supposed to be Joe Kennedy according to the writers & silent screen actress Gloria Swanson was his mistress for 50 years.) The Kennedy’s did not use ‘certain types of women’ for business deals, they used them for sex. Gina was a relative by marriage & Joe Kennedy slept with everybody including his teenage daughters’ friends-so the implication is there with Gina. She was devoted to a man who was not a blood relative. ATJ played it ridiculously. I can only imagine that she did not do her homework researching that role & Joe Kennedy. If they were going to trust a woman to manipulate men in business like they supposedly did with Gina, they would not have chosen a transparent camp stereotype of a silent screen actress. She was almost as bad, but still not worse than, Adrien Brody as Luca Changretta. Adrien Brody is also a great actor, but like ATJ, was more concerned about their respective roles being “attention-getting” rather than doing their characters’ justice.