Netflix: No Peaky Blinders thread?

[NewChief]

Just finished first season. This show is really enjoyable. Good plot. Lots of criminal politics and violence. Interesting characters. But the style and costuming. Damn. So interesting to make such a squalid environment look so simultaneously stylish.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Chiefspants

Knight has this ending in mind (that he’s openly talked about multiple times, so spoilers beware), that I worry he’s been stuck on for so long it’ll feel a little forced in the context of what the show has become (like How I Met Your Mother’s ending, for instance).

Spoiler!

With Polly and Michael gone and Paul Anderson rumored to have a heavily reduced role in the movie due to the actor’s irl substance abuse issues, I just don’t know if his original idea will have the same punch.

I’d love to be wrong, though. I consider Season 2’s finale to be among some of the greatest television ever.

I'd agree the S2 finale is some of the greatest television ever, and when Murphy is in the field might be one of the best couple minutes of acting put on screen.

The first time I saw it I had to rewind it because I was so in it, I missed what actually happened at the end. It was so good I couldn't process it or some shit.

[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

I'd agree the S2 finale is some of the greatest television ever, and when Murphy is in the field might be one of the best couple minutes of acting put on screen.

The first time I saw it I had to rewind it because I was so in it, I missed what actually happened at the end. It was so good I couldn't process it or some shit.

“In the bleak midwinter…”

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Chiefspants

“In the bleak midwinter…”

"So ****ing close..."

That's just such a strangely relatable moment considering the context. I mean even if you're only talking about some stupid video game you played as a kid, we all have some moment where we were like "Damn man...I was riiiiight there. And not its all gone..."

No matter how banal or remarkable your life may be, you see that moment and you feel it a bit of a twinge.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Chiefspants

“In the bleak midwinter…”

I actually looked up that poem based off that line. Just extraordinarily powerful.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

"So ****ing close..."

That's just such a strangely relatable moment considering the context. I mean even if you're only talking about some stupid video game you played as a kid, we all have some moment where we were like "Damn man...I was riiiiight there. And not its all gone..."

No matter how banal or remarkable your life may be, you see that moment and you feel it a bit of a twinge.

That's the one.

In the context of him being completely under control and quiet for 2 seasons and then he loses his shit.

So ****ing close.

[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

I actually looked up that poem based off that line. Just extraordinarily powerful.

Spoiler!

I’ve rewatched that scene in the field so many times. When he repeats the line “in the bleak midwinter” it feels like he’s accepted his death (right before he’s kicked out of the way and told of Churchill’s job for him).

The soundtrack, always pitch perfect, **** delivers after that moment. Ane Brun’s “All My Tears” reminds me of one of Dolly’s songs, and when Tommy collapses walking away in the field, I’ve always wondered if he’s crying because now he has to live with himself and what the Blinders are becoming - rather than dying with the acceptance of “how close” he was. Well, now he’s there, and he’ll have to live with that.

Arthur yelling at the end “who’s gonna stop us?!” before becoming downcast and saying “nobody,” drives that home for me.