r/PeakyBlinders • u/NicholasCajun • Oct 30 '14
Discussion Peaky Blinders - 2x05 "Episode 5" - Episode Discussion
Season 2 Episode 5: Episode 5
Aired: October 30, 2014
Tommy is caught by surprise when his powerbase in London is obliterated. As Tommy struggles to save his family and regain the upper hand, May expresses her feelings for him, and he is paid a visit by an old friend.
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u/greentangent Oct 31 '14
Fucking Tom Hardy, Solomon is scarier than Bane.
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u/moebius_ Nov 04 '14
I disagree... I feel like Tommy Shelby is the devil you don't want to fuck with in this show. I guarantee that Solomon and that arsehole Sabini have brought the fucking hammer down on themselves by imprisoning Arthur and killing Billy in the last episode. Literally. The fucking hammer.
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u/Sfhybridchild Oct 31 '14
I did not see that Polly and Campbell scene coming!!! Still very traumatised by all this. Also Michael you ungrateful child!
Grace fell into Tommy's plan didn't she :/ I think this ep deals with them very weirdly and choppy :(
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Oct 31 '14
Loved that scene where Tommy's shoveling shit. "To remind meself where I'd be if I wasn't who I am."
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u/-GaIaxy- Apr 14 '22
"But I will win you" may be the hottest thing I've ever heard. That whole exchange was great.
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u/LegacyEntertainment Feb 20 '22
Oh, Curly. That smile when he was shoveling with Tommy. Bless his heart.
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u/amijustamoodybastard Oct 30 '14 edited Sep 12 '23
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u/mynamewastaken77 May 15 '22
I know i'm late, but i just have to express how annoying Polly got in S2... Shittalking Thomas all the time, that she could run the business without him, but then breaking apart if her 18 yo. son gets a week in prison and even whoring herself out. I hope Michael stops talking to her for a while to make her realise that he doesn't need a whiney, overprotective mom clinging to him, but the old actually strong Polly.
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u/Novantico Sep 15 '22
Pretty fucked up to use Michael against her like that. The poor woman has been living with the trauma of having her children taken away from her for nearly 18 years, on top of all the other traumas that come with that family. God forbid she care more about her children than anything on earth just as many women would. Guarantee you a significant number of desperate loving mothers would whore themselves out to a dirty pig if they thought it meant their child would be safe for free. You don’t have to be Polly Shelby to do that.
Her criticisms of Tommy are largely because she doesn’t share the same level of ambition he does. Why play a game of how many layers of petroleum jelly it takes to stick your dick in a hornet’s nest before you get stung too many times when Birmingham alone had them set for life easily?
Michael is being an ungrateful little shit but it’s only so much his fault because of how dramatically and harshly his innocence was broken and how he had to go from tough boy to hardened man almost literally overnight. Everyone is fucked.
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u/jbenson255 Oct 09 '22
I mean Tommy told her not to let him stay lol, Tommy also stood by her decision to not let him join them until she changed her mind
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Nov 03 '14
Just gonna post all my thoughts:
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Tom hardy is awesome but there is not enough screen time for him to steal the show. I think Cillian murphy is absolutely killing it. 2. It seems like Tommy gives zero fucks about trying to free arthur. I mean, you know hes cooking up plans.. but those plans seemed to be focused on the race to handle the irish business, campbell, and sabini. 3. He spends more time with may and grace then doing anything for the family and it seems like he only told campbell about grace to piss him off which will work against him. 4. The way michael treated polly when he was released crushed my heart ughhh geez fack
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u/brinard Nov 04 '14 edited Nov 04 '14
I loved alfie. But he's just dead now...
Arthur is probably in need of some time out...he's been acting out, even for a blinder. Beating kids to death, too much Tokyo, money extortion... If Arthur is going to be safe, it's in prison. If he was killed it would be the start of wwII
Campbell and the I.r.a. Are trying to get tommy killed as much as get their target assisinated. this could be a suicide mission.
Tommy is spending time with people he has feelings for.! And reciprocate those feelings. His family resent him for his actions, even if he's given them everything and more( you get a house, you get a house, 4 Bugattis, etc) and it will never be enough. He even signed his wealth away to his necices/nephews in a will, and Ada is still a bitch.
Polly is ambarassing the family by whoring up the inspector. Tommy could have gotten michael out, or Michael just done his time. Polly is irrational and making poor choices with her actions ( pulling guns on tommy, etc) she was way cooler when she was pissed, stoic, and venomous like her talk w grace...polls selfish behavior will cost her a family member...
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u/Ciller92 Nov 04 '14
I'm a little disappointed by the whole London business. Last season I hoped Solomon was playing Sabini but no, he's just turned against the blinders seemingly without reason. Writing seems a bit rushed. Still an amazing show though.
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u/this1 Jan 15 '15
I thought this was all predicated on the fact that Arther is out of control.
I don't think Arther taking over that bar in Episode 4 was part of anyone's plan.
I myself am looking for a better explanation, but as far as I can tell, that's what kick started the betrayal.
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u/Novantico Sep 15 '22
I think if doing something as monumental as seizing the Eden Club was against Tommy’s wishes we would have absolutely had a scene between them about it. Tommy was fine with it, did business there himself and his sit down with Arthur was to just check the books and put Arthur’s coke habit in check.
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u/TeardropLagrima Jul 23 '26
Yeah, I thought Solomon was going to play Sabini too! There was a moment during there peace talks that Solomon looked like he was going to back stab Sabini but I guess I read his nonverbal body cue wrong.
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u/mankytit Oct 31 '14
Didn't get the scene with Tommy and Esme, "getting lost in France". Was she asking him to run away with her?
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u/MTBNEW Oct 31 '14
No Esme was telling Tommy that they could all run away together. When she said "they still allow you to to get lost there", i believe she is talking about Opium. First season I think there was a few scenes with tommy's bedroom where you can see a kit that people would use to smoke opium.
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u/FixxThaFernBack Oct 30 '14
I feel like this episode was boring compared to the rest of the episodes. Thomas Shelby was still a boss nonetheless.
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u/liam3 Feb 10 '23
first season i thought campbell seeking out a hooker was so out of no where. now i know he really is just horny.
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u/kinvore Nov 02 '14
Anyone catch the little reference to The Who's movie Tommy?
"Tommy can you hear me?"
Man I fookin' love this show.
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u/markingson May 30 '22
the shining scene of the episode for me is the interrogation room with polly and campbell. helen and sam absolutely killed it with their chemistry and experience in acting. one of the best acted scenes in the show, without a doubt.
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u/tirese Nov 02 '14
The whole scene where Solomons explains their Passover traditions, lulling Arthur Shelby into complacency then revealing the goat sacrifice was named Thomas Shelby, damn that was scary and awesome to watch.