Peaky blinders season 4 episode 41/19/2023 It’s a supremely tense opener, with the kind of high stake and edge-of-seat anxiousness usually reserved for closer to the end of an episode than the start. Except it’s a trap, a decoy, and it’s actually Michael who’s in danger. The Blinders are one step ahead (which is amazing, considering the amount of slo-mo walking they do), and ready to take a pot-shot at the Mafia assassins they expect to turn up. We begin ominously also, though to be fair, when don’t we in this show? A trap is laid for Arthur in the shape of a party with beer and sandwiches, and the mother of a boy who Arthur killed. It’s just the odd spark needed to carry the episode to its ominous end. ![]() His brief return is everything you expect of his loquacious rum baker Alfie Solomons: brutish, cheeky, and so eccentric that he pushes against the carefully manicured aura of cool and seriousness that the show now creates so effortlessly. No wonder fans were clamouring to have him back. He’s also part of the finest exchange of dialogue in the history of the show: ![]() In the seven minutes of screen time he has he commands attention like the blare of the car horn that announces him. ![]() So when he turns up at the end of this week’s Peaky Blinders to talk gin, piss, and boxing, he reminds you that it’s here, not in his own project Taboo, that Hardy really belongs.
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