{"id":11586,"date":"2022-02-27T23:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1592306"},"modified":"2022-02-27T23:00:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T22:00:09","slug":"peaky-blinders-star-reacts-to-shocking-episode-1-reveal","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/peaky-blinders-star-reacts-to-shocking-episode-1-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"Peaky Blinders\u2019 star reacts to shocking episode 1 reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Abby Robinson\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Sunday, 27 February 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Note: this article contains discussion of suicide that some readers may find upsetting.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peaky Blinders season 6 picks up directly where the last chapter left off, with Tommy (Cillian Murphy) reeling from his failure to assassinate Sir Oswald Mosley (Sam Claflin).<\/p>\n

The Shelby patriarch had hired Barney Thompson (Cosmo Jarvis), a former army comrade, to shoot the fascist politician dead, but the IRA had taken steps to ensure that his plot crashed and burned, for reasons we\u2019ve delved into here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tommy, unable to reckon with his greatest failure to date, turned on his heel and strode off into the mist. It was there, alone, that he held a gun to his own head and roared as his pain and fury burned bright.<\/p>\n

Despite Arthur\u2019s plea to \u201cgo inside and work it out and have a drink\u201d, Tommy had resigned himself to death and he squeezed the trigger with conviction.<\/p>

It was no secret that Murphy would return for the show\u2019s final season, even in light of how we left him in the season 5 finale, but a number of viewers will undoubtedly be surprised to discover that Tommy did<\/em> intend to kill himself. It wasn\u2019t just a wobble, which we\u2019ve seen from him on multiple occasions previously, but a full-blooded attempt to bow out for good.<\/p>\n

But Arthur (Paul Anderson), of all people, acted just in the nick of time to yank his brother back form the brink.<\/p>\n

Chatting to RadioTimes.com<\/a> about that reveal, Sophie Rundle, who plays Ada Thorne, said: \u201cI think that\u2019s what Peaky has always done really well. It doesn\u2019t pussyfoot around anything and it really does go there. It is really f**king brutal. And I love that about it. It\u2019s really guttural and it\u2019s really intense and he meant to do it. And then he was saved by his brother, which is the constant theme of the show, being saved by your family, even when you don\u2019t think that you would be.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I think it\u2019s what Peaky does really well. It goes really hard and it goes really intense. And it deals in big emotions and in big storylines. It doesn\u2019t shy away from that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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