{"id":455978,"date":"2026-03-03T21:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455978\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T21:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:50:11","slug":"peaky-blinders-creator-shares-three-key-episodes-to-rewatch-before-movie-comes-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455978\/","title":{"rendered":"Peaky Blinders creator shares three key episodes to rewatch before movie comes out"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the upcoming release of Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man later this week many may not realise that it has been four whole years since Tommy Shelby was on our screens.<\/p>\n

Cillian Murphy<\/a> is set to return to the role of Tommy along with Sophie Rundle as Ada, Stephen Graham as Hayden Stagg, and newcomers Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Roth, and Barry Keoghan, who is set to play Tommy\u2019s son Duke. Releasing in cinemas later this week, it will play on Netflix<\/a> March 20.<\/p>\n

The Immortal Man<\/a> sees Tommy return after years away, having departed Birmingham at the very end of Peaky Blinders<\/a> season six, leaving behind the gang he had built.<\/p>\n

Early trailers have shown Barry Keoghan\u2019s Duke<\/a> now the leader of the Peaky Blinders, with Ada telling Tommy that he\u2019s running the gang \u2018like it\u2019s 1919\u2019.<\/p>\n

\"StevenSteven Knight has spoken out in a new video about which episodes to rewatch (Netflix\/YouTube)<\/p>\n

Many fans with terrible memories (such as myself) will want to rewatch the show to remind themselves what on earth led to this set-up for the film, but of these fans several will not want to watch six seasons of TV in a week.<\/p>\n

Thankfully for them Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has the revealed the three episodes of the show that are an essential rewatch before the film comes out in a YouTube video<\/a> for Netflix.<\/p>\n

The Pilot \u2013 Episode 1.1<\/p>\n

As probably makes sense, to watch the end of this iteration of the Peaky Blinders Knight suggests going back to where it all began.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIt really lays out what this whole series is about. It introduces Tommy Shelby in a way that I think makes it pretty unequivocal about who this person is. We see him riding on a horse in an industrial landscape, no words, just his look.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe pilot introduces Tommy and the Shelby family (BBC)<\/p>\n

“It really says so much about what Peaky is going to be about and the whole episode is essential to know exactly what this family is and what they do and why they\u2019re so fearsome.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first episode introduces the Shelby family, with Tommy stealing a shipment of guns which elevates his position as a gang member but also brings the attention of Sam Neill\u2019s Inspector Chester Campbell. With Tommy returning to Birmingham in the film it almost feels like a re-debut of the Shelby gangster, so it makes sense to go back to the pilot episode.<\/p>\n

Season Two finale \u2013 Episode 2.6<\/p>\n

Interestingly the season two finale is one of the three most important episodes to rewatch according to Knight, with the writer saying it features his \u2018favourite sequence of the series\u2019.<\/p>\n

Season two culminates in Tommy being forced to assassinate a high-level military official by Campbell, who plans to have Tommy killed even if he succeeds.<\/p>\n

\"TommyTommy Shelby is made to stand in a pre-dug grave, but survives (BBC)<\/p>\n

Whilst the Shelbys kill Campbell and the military official Henry Russell Tommy is still kidnapped by men working for the Ulster policeman. As he is taken out to a field by three men with guns he prepares to be killed, with Knight saying of the sequence: \u201cThey\u2019ve already dug his grave. He asks for time to smoke a cigarette and in that time he reviews his life. His regrets. The things he wishes he had done. I think as an audience we think this is it and then there is a twist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two of Tommy\u2019s captors are shot by the third who relays a message that Winston Churchill himself will want to speak to the gangster soon, with Knight adding: \u201cWhat that gives us is: Here is a man who is not sure if he wants to live or die\u2026 [in this moment] we can see that he actually chooses life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lock and Key \u2013 Episode 6.6<\/p>\n

The third episode is perhaps the most obvious as Knight recommends watching the final TV episode of Peaky Blinders, the season six finale. Season six mostly centres around two things, the death of Aunt Polly at the hands of the IRA and Tommy discovering that he had a brain tumour.<\/p>\n

In the final episode Arthur gets revenge on the IRA members who killed Polly, her son Michael is killed by Tommy after he tries to come after his own family, and the youngest Shelby brother Finn is excommunicated from the gang by Duke.<\/p>\n

Tommy, however, discovers he didn\u2019t really have a brain tumour and had been tricked by a doctor who was working with Oswald Mosley (if you don\u2019t remember how Oswald Mosley became involved, maybe it\u2019s worth giving season five and six a rewatch).<\/p>\n

\"ForFor maybe the first time in the series, Tommy shows mercy (BBC)<\/p>\n

Ultimately Tommy ends up standing over the doctor with a gun to his head, but doesn\u2019t shoot him. Knight says of this: \u201cHe decides not to, the Tommy previous to that would have done that. He puts the gun away, goes back to his horse, and he rides away into the sunset.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe horse he rides away on is a white horse. The horse he arrived on at the beginning of the series was a black horse. I think there is a contrast between the two moments and maybe we believe that Tommy is cured, that he\u2019s better, that he\u2019s riding away to have a simpler life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man releases in cinemas 6 March and on Netflix 20 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the upcoming release of Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man later this week many may not realise that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[83061,24654,96,2332,392,78373,391,14913,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-455978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-barry-keoghan","tag-cillian-murphy","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-netflix","tag-peaky-blinders","tag-tv","tag-tv-and-film","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}