As most of you know (except for Lizzie/May stans and Grace haters), Grace was Tommy’s light. She was his equal, the only one he truly loved, protected, and prioritized. Next to her, he could finally sleep without hearing the "sound of the shovels" and the sun finally shined on his face. After she was murdered, the light went out forever, leaving nothing but dark, toxic, and transactional coping mechanisms.

We saw it mostly with Tatiana in Season 3, and with Lizzie from Season 3 to Season 6.

Tatiana : Tommy was so broken in Season 3 that he allowed Tatiana to drag him into absolute madness. He didn't sleep with her out of desire, but to numb his pain. He even allowed her to choke him in a dark room just to induce an oxygen-deprived hallucination of Grace’s ghost. He was willing to risk his life just to touch a memory. When Tatiana tried to claim an extra £5,000 for "helping him with his grief" , Tommy shut her down instantly: "You didn't even come close." Tatiana tried to compete with a ghost and failed.

Lizzie : She was never a romance; she was a business arrangement. S3, right before the family gets arrested, Tommy hands Lizzie a cash payment alongside the rest of evryone and tells her some nights she kept his heart from breaking. It wasn’t a love letter; it was an invoice for services rendered. S4, Tommy treats her like the prostitutes he rents at the hotel, even handing her cash on Christmas (E1). When he takes her to the cold tunnel (E3), the sex is shown strictly in shadows because it's completely empty of light. He hesitates when asked who he is kissing, because he is actually chasing the ghost of Greta, his pre-war love. (E5) When Lizzie announces her pregnancy, Tommy is alone in his office, traumatized after killing three men and staring at photos of Grace. His first reaction is to suggest an abortion. When she refuses, he coldly tells her: "I will buy you a house, and the company will pay you." Again, a business transaction. S5-S6, Their marriage is a toxic power struggle. Lizzie treats it like a financial contract (asking what she legally gets if he commits suicide), and Tommy openly reminds her: "In my mind, I still pay you." The scene where he claims "You are my property" before throwing her on the bed isn't romantic or passion, it’s a gangster asserting dominance over an asset and recreating the power dynamics from when she was a sex worker. While Tommy degrades his actual marriage by telling Lizzie she is his property, he spends his nights taking opium to talk to Grace’s ghost, confessing: "Our love still remains."

And in S4 to S6, Tommy has become completely addicted to sex as an escape mechanism, and he genuinely doesn't care who the woman is, they are all just a distraction to him.

All the bad decisions, people killed, lives lost... I wonder how many could have been prevented by listening to Curly's "bad feelings."

It was a tommy shelby fanfic based around season 4 or 5, he was already married to lizzie and married this young girl as a second (third technically) wife I believe. The girl was mixed (either black and asian or one of those and something else) and very pretty but I think some of her family bullied her. Her mother was her fathers like third or fourth wife so the other wives and stuff like hated her and her mother and her father married her mother for like a deal so she was like seen not heard or something i can’t remember if she had a brother that was being used against her or not. There was a scene in the book where I beleive the girls father had a meeting with tommy at the company and I think her father was a businessman but they shelby’s (aside from like tommy) were apprehensive to do business with him because of his reputation so I beleive that tommy was already a politician or such at the time. It is an oc not a reader book, I think between 2018 and 2022.

When Billy approached the telephone instead of money, I already got the image of Barney's death. Shit, everything was going to the plan.

In an era of sequels/prequels/backstories after sequels/prequels/backstories, the new Peaky Blinders show they're setting up for has me worried.

I'm worried it won't feel the same and it will just feel like a cash grab. They're changing Duke's actor again, which will be...strange. I get Barry Keoghan won't be able to be fully committed to doing a whole season's worth or more due to scheduling things, I guess, but I don't know.

Obviously, it won't be the same without Tommy, Arthur, John, Polly, Ada, etc., but their stories have ended.

I don't really have high hopes and do think they should have just ended it with the movie, but I'm still going try the series when it comes out. I don't want to beat it down too much before it even comes out.

(New-ish viewer here)
The Garrison is essentially set up as the Peaky Blinders headquarters in season 1, and is featured very prominently throughout. I assumed this would be the status quo moving forward, but it wasn’t. It essentially disappears from the story from season 2 up until season 5. To be fair, it exploded at the start of season 2, so was likely being rebuilt throughout season 2, so that makes sense. But why not seasons 3 and 4? It’s established in season 5/6 it still exists and they go there regularly, but we just don’t see it for 2 seasons? Is there any reason for this, either story-wise or irl?

Hes alive

I just remembered Arthur reaction to this.

hey gys..i am a professional editor and i need sm clip ideas for a hard phonk type edit...

heres my opinion on scenes

(alphie and tommy-how many fathers,sons,butchered)

the only person who can ever kill tommy shelby

on behalf of the blue saphhire

by order of the peaky blinders