Peaky Blinders Season 5 is about to come as BBC Two finally drops its first official trailer. The promo only proves how intense the new installment will be. It was the same thing creator Steven Knight confirmed when he said Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) would have a new enemy and undergo rehabilitation.
In a talk on Obsessed With... Peaky Blinders podcast, Knight explained the new season would be set in the 1930s, when Tommy is an MP, and the first stirrings of fascism, nationalism, and populism occurred. There would be politicians that were happy to take advantage of it and also get votes from it.
Those are the things that Tommy has to face in Peaky Blinders Season 5 that will help him cope up from his terrible experiences. When he encounters these problems, fans are about to see how Tommy will react, how he goes with it, and if he will ever oppose it.
Fans are also going to witness how parallel the politicians speak at the time to what they are saying today. "Something is going on that is really relevant to what was going on then," Knight said.
Although it might be hard to imagine seeing Shelby in Parliament, Peaky Blinders Season 5 trailer proved he is heading that way. Now that he will be having a lengthy political career, he may end up going for redemption.
Knight told BBC News, via Express, his MP status would be his chance for rehabilitation after he lost a lot and remained to be mentally scarred due to his time in World War One. The fact that he is an MP for South Birmingham only means he has retained his contacts with Birmingham people.
Although Tommy has a lot of motives, Knight has been trying to rehabilitate him. Tommy has had a hard time to live a straight life, but he can change the lives of his community's most poor members, which his family also experienced.
In the previous season, fans last saw Tommy face-to-face with Al Capone (Stephen Graham) while he made clear his political ambitions. The liquor businessman swore to destroy the Shelby family and determined to send each member a black hand, which meant death was on its way.
From the looks of it, his New York cronies were no match to the Chicago gang that Al Capone led. Now that Tommy allied with the notorious group, it might only mean that there would be more trouble in Peaky Blinders Season 5, which would be out later this year on BBC One.
