They went completely off the tracks with this episode. I haven't timed it, but I'd be willing to bet half of the episode was just people fking. It's like they woke up with a bad hangover and few ideas. The scant story line wasn't enough to hold it's own so they thought it would be a good idea to throw in a bunch of gratuitous sex, which didn't contribute anything to the plot or story.
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weird
alinaosina18 December 2019
Medical Note for S3, E5
larry-5680914 June 2022
The first modern halo vest was developed at Ranchos Los Amigos, Los Angeles, CA and described by Perry and Nickel in 1959. Numerous modifications have been made to the halo vest, and other orthoses for the cervical spine have been developed. Maybe an earlier version?
I love the series personally but
gurneet-081605 September 2018
Well actually its a very small butt considering the quality and story we are going through here. I personally love the series but this particular episode @ 38:00 mins a glitch in editing can be seen. It should be corrected.
EMOTIONALLY ENGROSSED
armaanfaizelkatkodia30 November 2019
Weirdest yet
Calicodreamin29 November 2021
Boring episode
nicofreezer7 July 2021
Nothing happen, slow slow rytm for 1 hour, it was difficult to watch it, Hope the finale will at least be correct ... Im dissapointed about season 3 After a good first season 1 and an okay/ correct Season 2
This one 5.75/10.
Off the rails and back on then off again
silverton-3795916 November 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Certain parts of this episode are completely offside the storyline, while the rest seem to be back to the story. For one thing, Paddy Considine plays his role so well that I'll have trouble liking any character he plays from now on. He's such an evil presence that I want to see him get his reward. That is on track, given the way his character has been set up in earlier episodes.
Tommy suffers a skull fracture that could easily have been fatal and his mind wanders into fantasy land. The fantasies slop over into the rest of the script, making incongruities appear, such as the scene where the brothers, except for Tommy, are made to allow an inspection of their naked bodies by the Russian women.
The writers are apparently huffing glue or taking LSD in order to mess the storyline up with silliness such as what we see in this episode.
Tommy suffers a skull fracture that could easily have been fatal and his mind wanders into fantasy land. The fantasies slop over into the rest of the script, making incongruities appear, such as the scene where the brothers, except for Tommy, are made to allow an inspection of their naked bodies by the Russian women.
The writers are apparently huffing glue or taking LSD in order to mess the storyline up with silliness such as what we see in this episode.
Ugh.
W011y4m515 January 2022
Warning: Spoilers
As I continue binging series of "Peaky Blinders", I'm actually starting to agree with my initial observation that it's aggressively heterosexual, a reinforcement of toxic masculinity & a glorification of male violence - which is why it took me so long to begin watching in the first place.
That problem is especially prevalent here - in this particular episode (as it becomes increasingly noticeable that the show does undeniably pander to the male gaze, objectifying women & doing a disservice to its depictions of them & their bodies throughout) - partly due to the continued imbalance in its portrayals of nudity; women are continually expected to bare all in front to the camera during frequent, explicit, full frontal sequences & yet thus far, the same has never been asked of any man? Why is that? Surely the differentiation in the way bodies are framed / lensed isn't purely coincidence? That's a deliberate creative choice & I'm inclined to ask what motivated those decisions - because I don't agree with the resultant, brazen inequality.
Unfortunately, that's just one symptom of this larger issue because it additionally manifests itself in other ways; there are hardly any main characters who aren't men & the majority of women featured are either dutiful, doting wives (their characters exist solely to enrich their male counterparts) or sex workers... Who are either violated or there to fall at the feet of the nearest male who happens to meet them.
The only outlier is the matriarchal figure, Aunt Polly - a strong, untouchable, assertive, authoritative, independently minded individual in S1, capable of holding her own against even the most powerful men in the room - who's then reduced to a clingy, passive, overly dependent mother who spends the entirety of her time fussing over her son & making sandwiches for him in S2 & 3 (quelle suprise, her only daughter's dead), constantly seeking his approval & affection (her single function within the narrative is to protect him) until she's no longer as respected as she once was. In fact, she's pitied. It's simply sad to see Steven Knight plot this course for her character because the role she played in events has gone from being one of importance to rather inconsequential & insignificant. The stern dominance & the magnetism she possessed has given way to neediness & desperation... And worse still, the male writer also needlessly subjected her character to rape in an overly long, gratuitous, tasteless, voyeuristic scene leading up to her assault - so he could pursue a patronisingly regressive, contrived "revenge for assault" storyline - dressing it up as somehow progressive or empowering. Now I've no problem with featuring crimes of this nature if it's done respectfully & the plot warrants this progression... But when there's no discernible justification for its inclusion, it comes across as exploitative.
Then we have the classic dead wife trope used in episode 2 - killing off Thomas Shelby's lover to provide his character with some form of development... Not to mention, the numerous, doting women characters (another appearing every season) who swoon over his protagonist as soon as they meet - like some kind of outdated Bond girl? I'm just tired of seeing women used in such a tokenistic, disrespectful manner. They deserve so much better than this mistreatment & the way in which women are continually portrayed is totally unacceptable, to say it was made in 2015.
Found episode 5 especially grievous to sit through but the show as a whole requires improvement in that regard.
That problem is especially prevalent here - in this particular episode (as it becomes increasingly noticeable that the show does undeniably pander to the male gaze, objectifying women & doing a disservice to its depictions of them & their bodies throughout) - partly due to the continued imbalance in its portrayals of nudity; women are continually expected to bare all in front to the camera during frequent, explicit, full frontal sequences & yet thus far, the same has never been asked of any man? Why is that? Surely the differentiation in the way bodies are framed / lensed isn't purely coincidence? That's a deliberate creative choice & I'm inclined to ask what motivated those decisions - because I don't agree with the resultant, brazen inequality.
Unfortunately, that's just one symptom of this larger issue because it additionally manifests itself in other ways; there are hardly any main characters who aren't men & the majority of women featured are either dutiful, doting wives (their characters exist solely to enrich their male counterparts) or sex workers... Who are either violated or there to fall at the feet of the nearest male who happens to meet them.
The only outlier is the matriarchal figure, Aunt Polly - a strong, untouchable, assertive, authoritative, independently minded individual in S1, capable of holding her own against even the most powerful men in the room - who's then reduced to a clingy, passive, overly dependent mother who spends the entirety of her time fussing over her son & making sandwiches for him in S2 & 3 (quelle suprise, her only daughter's dead), constantly seeking his approval & affection (her single function within the narrative is to protect him) until she's no longer as respected as she once was. In fact, she's pitied. It's simply sad to see Steven Knight plot this course for her character because the role she played in events has gone from being one of importance to rather inconsequential & insignificant. The stern dominance & the magnetism she possessed has given way to neediness & desperation... And worse still, the male writer also needlessly subjected her character to rape in an overly long, gratuitous, tasteless, voyeuristic scene leading up to her assault - so he could pursue a patronisingly regressive, contrived "revenge for assault" storyline - dressing it up as somehow progressive or empowering. Now I've no problem with featuring crimes of this nature if it's done respectfully & the plot warrants this progression... But when there's no discernible justification for its inclusion, it comes across as exploitative.
Then we have the classic dead wife trope used in episode 2 - killing off Thomas Shelby's lover to provide his character with some form of development... Not to mention, the numerous, doting women characters (another appearing every season) who swoon over his protagonist as soon as they meet - like some kind of outdated Bond girl? I'm just tired of seeing women used in such a tokenistic, disrespectful manner. They deserve so much better than this mistreatment & the way in which women are continually portrayed is totally unacceptable, to say it was made in 2015.
Found episode 5 especially grievous to sit through but the show as a whole requires improvement in that regard.
The interactions between Tommy Shelby and Alfie Solomons are probably the best interactions on this show.
Neptune16524 June 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I was surprised at the breakfast too but then i remember that this is the 1900s and it wasn't until a while ago that food wasn't as commercialized. People ate nasty soups and onions and whatever if you were poor. That's why many men went to war so they can rise in station and have the luxuries we enjoy today. That fancy breakky right there is the life lol. Tommy was definitely high when he seen Mary do that. Mary wasn't actually doing that. The morphine was making him hallucinate y'all. Michael specifically wants to kill that Priest because he was abused by him as a child. Tommy said that to Polly at the end of the episode (he understands why Michael wants to do it), but Polly doesn't care because she knows the kind of effect taking someone's life would have on Michael.
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