Peaky Blinders Season 3 Teaser Trailer Dropped
I’m going to be totally honest, this trailer is only 15 seconds, doesn’t actually reveal anything, is largely useless and is just an excuse to talk about Peaky Blinders, because I love talking about Peaky Blinders. I’m sorry for misleading you. Anyway here is the trailer.
Now that we got that out of the way, let’s talk Peaky. Peaky Blinders is a BBC drama on Netflix that if you haven’t seen, you should cancel all your plans for this weekend, possibly quit your job, and abandon any and all friends or family members who could distract you from binge-watching the entire series this week. What makes Peaky Blinders is it takes the aspect of English televison that the Brits undoubtably are the masters of and kick our asses in – the period drama – and strips away the stuffy, blue-blood pretentiousness that usually comes with it. Peaky Blinders is dirty, grimy, unflinching, and absurdly satisfying.
Season 3 of Peaky Blinders is interesting because there’s no obvious direction for the show to go. While the showrunners have teased that the Shelby clan is going international in their operation, what exactly this means in unclear: More trouble in Ireland and the IRA to get involved in? A push to the Prohibition-era United States bootlegging booze? A European criminal empire? Now that the Shelby’s have Birmingham and London tied up neatly in a bow, the only room for growth is to push out instead of claw their way up, and how Tommy is able to graduate his family from local gangsters to multinational criminals. The Arthur story arc also felt never fully resolved unless the morale of his story is “cocaine will solve all your life’s problems and deep psychological neuroses tend to sort themselves out” , so I’d assume some sort of explosion from the powder keg that is Arthur Shelby is coming sooner rather than later. Other things I’d like to see Season 3 get into:
-Tommy Shelby has two defining characteristics: He is singularly and fanatically devoted to his family, and a cold-blooded manipulative pragmatist who is obsessed with his own power. He’s been able to be defined by these two things, because up until this point, these two things have never come into conflict with one another. But what happens when what’s best for Tommy isn’t what’s best for the Shelby clan? Sure he’s went against the wishes of his family before, but only when Tommy thought it was ultimately in their best interest and he was the only one smart enough to see that (usually being right). Tommy has never been confronted with a choice between himself and the Shelby clan before, and which is more important to him is the single biggest unanswered question we have about him as a character.
-Will there ever be villain more hateable than Major Campbell? I actually don’t need this addressed because the answer is no.
-Is Michael (Polly’s long-lost then found against son who wants in on the family business) a trustworthy protege for Tommy, or Olly from Game of Thrones crossed with Fredo Corleone (the backstabbing parts of both characters, not the pathetic loser part)? So far every threat to the Shelbys has been an outsider, they’ve never had to worry about one of their own turning on them given their clannish devotion to each other. But now they’re letting a relative outsider into the inner circle. Maybe the kid’s Shelby blood will keep him honest but I smell trouble.
-Alfie Solomon was such a hit with fans and Tom Hardy is such an incredible actor, the fact they’re bringing him back can only mean a greatly expanded role. Tom Hardy v. Cillian Murphy scenes were acting tour-de-forces, and I need more of them. I need more of everything. Peaky Blinders has to come back in my life soon. Get on your horse, Netflix, and serve me up some Tommy Shelby ASAP.
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