Blindingly Good Beeb – Peaky Blinders Season 3
- harrypd21
- May 9, 2016
- 2 min read
Updated: Jun 28, 2019
If you don’t get TV in your home under a rock then you might have missed that last week the much-awaited season 3 of Peaky Blinders aired, ticking all the boxes for the high-level entertainment we’ve come to expect from the show.
In a quick bid to send long-time (well, 2 seasons-long) fans straight to BBC iplayer, and to entice new watchers, here’s a recap:
“an inevitable vision of Sodom and Gomorrah”
The visual clout of Tim Mielant’s Peaky Blinders, which seems more like an HBO or Sky Atlantic funded drama than the usual period pieces the Beeb opt for, is bold and grandiose in the season premiere throughout the course of gang leader not-quite-turned-legitimate-businessman Thomas Shelby’s wedding and reception in his new sprawling mansion. But don’t worry, you can take the man out of Small Heath but not vice versa as we are treating to a orgiastic hour that crescendo’s amidst betrayals; fighting; gambling, and general excess into an inevitable vision of Sodom and Gomorrah as the “warring” clans of the bride’s family and the blinders come to heads.
The Cillian Murphy engine is by no means a one-man show however, despite the seamless return of the aforementioned actor to the subtly cool yet, worried and troubled married man juggling crime and a family. There is great interplay between Aunt Pol and the returned Grace in their conflict to control Tommy, all the while reminding us as with the many double-crosses and throne-snatches in the first two series that perhaps no-one, not even Winston Churchill himself, can control a Shelby man. Alfred, in a newly weakened stupor having apparently has God forced upon him by his wife shows hopeful (harsh, I know) signs of self-destructing and returning to the cocaine-addled, punch-drunk booze-hound that he once was; while Finn Cole’s Michael Gray shows signs of having been fully converted to a life of crime and debauchery – all tense stuff.
The show ends with a mysterious cliff-hanger without leaving us feeling that too many questions have been left unanswered; features typical ingenuity in the blend of a modern soundtrack with luxurious period detail; and introduces ominous new players and horizons into the lives of the lovable Small Heath gangsters – a must watch for new, and returning, viewers alike.
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