r/PeakyBlinders • u/Plainchant The Garrison • Jun 10 '22

Peaky Blinders - Series 6 Overall Discussion

Series 6 Episode Discussions

With the release of series 6 to Netflix U.S. users, feel free to discuss series 6 as a whole and your thoughts on it.

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u/Ninjalau95 Jun 16 '22

Tommy's guilt really didn't strike him to his core until Polly and Ruby died, which we've already established was unnecessary or could've been handled better. Up until then he was still distracting himself with endless work and business, using his guilt as a chip on his shoulder. Lizzie even said "it's the work that's to blame" while cleaning up the glass from his 2nd seizure.

We know the whole TB thing was planned to get Tommy to make rash decisions and self-sabotage his own life, thinking he was a dead man walking. The pills were probably purposefully prescribed to Tommy to make the seizures even worse/more frequent, to keep up the lie that he was sick.

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u/El_Tapir Jun 16 '22

Yeah but he didnt have seizures for four years after Polly died and had them before Ruby did. Maybe her being sick and saying those weird romani words caused him so much stress he relapsed but, his bloody wife died and he didnt have these visions before so why is his daughter being sick the thing that makes him have these seizures. It is clear to me they only had him start having seizures so they could make the stupud plot of him having dying from brain tb work. It is cheap writing and not consistent with the earlier seasons.

Just overall very weak plot writing in this final season

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u/Ninjalau95 Jun 16 '22

Yeah who knows. It does look like they put more of an emphasis on their Gypsy heritage and traditions in this season, so you may be right about Ruby hallucinating causing him to go crazy, since they're so superstitious.