Peaky Blinders recap – series four, episode two: Heathens
Tommy proves what a great multi-tasker he is, but is it really all going his way? For one, Luca Chan..
Tommy proves what a great multi-tasker he is, but is it really all going his way? For one, Luca Changretta is causing trouble, as is the truly nasty Aberama Gold
SPOILER ALERT: This blog is for those who are watching series four of Peaky Blinders. Don’t read on if you haven’t seen episode two.
The move back to Small Heath has definitely done this show the power of good. The plotting and writing feel leaner and the life-and-death stakes are free of grand, overarching conspiracies. It helps, too, that Peaky Blinders has always nodded to the conventions of the western and those conventions lend themselves to this year’s plot with the Shelby clan penned back in their old haunts and enemies approaching on all sides. To be honest, if the whole thing doesn’t culminate in a showdown along the lines of Howard Hawks’s classic Rio Bravo or John Carpenter’s modern-day nod to the western, Attack on Precinct 13, then I shall feel obscurely let down.
