We know Tommy has an outstanding intelligence system and covers all the angles, but I have a feeling that in Alfie Solomons he might be about to meet his match.
Yet can we really trust anyone at this point? Alfie told Darby he’d help eliminate the Peaky Blinders, seemingly going along with the latter’s argument that they’re out of control (“coming down the canal like rats,” as he memorably opined) but isn’t it just as likely Alfie is only pretending to lend his support to his old comrade in crime? Is he able to forget Darby’s insults that easily? What does he really want? Who is using who? In an entertaining standoff between Sabini and Solomons, we learned that they were old school frenemies with a habit of falling out. While Tommy was thinking of love, lust and all points in between, his enemies were continuing to circle. Tommy might still be in love with Grace – and is clearly going to have to face that soon – but the lonely widow in the big house might be the better bet, no matter how different their lives. She revealed that she lives alone with her grief for her dead husband, and then allowed herself to be seduced in a scorching on-screen coupling, in which the flames of attraction were further fanned by the use of PJ Harvey’s sultry Is this Desire?. The best moments, however, were the two meetings between May and Tommy, in which the sexual tension was ratcheted up to 10, as we were asked to consider whether two lonely souls, both in love with other people, could find release together, and if so was it only for a night? A commenter pointed out last week that horses and riding are too often used as a metaphor for sex, but I still enjoyed May’s initial meeting with Tommy, which was charged with desire and had entertaining echoes of one of my favourite film conversations: that between Vivian Rutledge and Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep.Īfter May had roughed it in Small Heath, it was Tommy’s turn to see just how the other half live, as he drove out of his way to see her, and she in turn invited the devil over her door. Along the way, we learned some interesting things about the depth of Sabini and Solomons’ (old, school) ties, were given further cause to worry about Michael, and watched Arthur take over that home of 1920s interpretive dance that is the Eden Club with predictably hard-to-watch results.
This was another strong episode, which kicked off with the heart-rending scene around Harold Hancox’s grave (a moment that was all the better for being played out in silence) and ended with the return of Grace, ensconced in the Ritz with her wealthy banker in tow and no doubt ready to re-break what remains of Tommy’s heart. Now the only issue is how I’m going to buy you all a round of virtual drinks in an imaginary pub … I don’t like to brag, but was I right or was I right about the assassination target? OK so, squinting at the folder in much the same narrow-eyed way as Tommy, it looked as if they might have changed Wilson’s surname to Russell, but given that we’re talking about a field marshal in the British army called Henry, whom both the British government and the pro-treaty Irish might want dead, I’m calling the death of Henry Wilson as the inspiration here. Don’t read on if you haven’t seen episode four.Ĭlick here to read Sarah Hughes’s episode three blogpost
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SPOILER ALERT: This blog is for those who are watching series two of Peaky Blinders.