In this new season, the Shelbys are victims of the crash of 1929. They must face new gangs and witness the rise of fascism. To be found at Arte Éditions.
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Two years have passed since the end of the previous season. Tommy Shelby is now under the gold of Westminster, elected Socialist in the British Parliament. A nice revenge for the little gypsy from Birmingham who, today, reigns supreme over a family business of import-export without forgetting the lucrative management of horse betting. It was October 29, 1929 when this new round of episodes began, the day after the dung beetle crash. An economic crisis that does not spare the Shelby’s business. The American branch of their small business is ruined, which undermines their fortune, illegally acquired it should be noted.
Cillian Murphy is imperial
And since that was not enough, our hasty gangster heroes must grapple with rival gangs who also want their share of the pie, in particular the Billy Boys, licensed criminals from Glasgow. To preserve their status as London’s first mobsters, the Shelbys will have to rush their return to the world of crime.
Haunted by what he lived on the Somme front during the Great War, obsessed by the arrival of new generations of thugs, Tommy Shelby appears darker than ever. Nothing goes even when he sits in the House of Commons, where he witnesses, from the front row, the rise of fascism announcing the Second World War.
Cillian Murphy is imperial in the role of head of the family. Visibly tortured by the demons of the past, his magnetic gaze is often lost in the vague and a weariness seems to invade him over the course of this fifth season. The pace is even more sustained and the aesthetics and elegance desired by Steven Knight, the creator of the series, are still in order.
“Peaky Blinders – season 5”. British series (2019 – 6 x 60 minutes). Arte editions. € 30. The complete seasons 1, 2 and 3 are still available in a box set.
