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* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** Campbell "interrogating" a member of the Shelby family should horrify the audience. Fortunately, it's Arthur, a fairly unpleasant guy, so Campbell still comes across as a fairly grey character, rather than pure evil.
** Subverted with the second beatdown we see Arthur take--one from his father, Arthur Senior. By this time, we've learned about Arthur's depression and desperation to be the favoured child, and Senior shows up and treats him like dirt.
** Campbell "interrogating" a member of the Shelby family should horrify the audience. Fortunately, it's Arthur, a fairly unpleasant guy, so Campbell still comes across as a fairly grey character, rather than pure evil.
** Subverted with the second beatdown we see Arthur take--one from his father, Arthur Senior. By this time, we've learned about Arthur's depression and desperation to be the favoured child, and Senior shows up and treats him like dirt.
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** UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill is a more controversial figure than he once was, but the CorruptPolitician of the show who orchestrates the murder of Field Marshal Russell as a [[PretextForWar pretext for the the Irish Civil War]] and plots with the Economic League is an invention of the screenwriters.
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** UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill is a more controversial figure than he once was, but the CorruptPolitician of the show who orchestrates the murder of Field Marshal Russell as a [[PretextForWar pretext for the the Irish Civil War]] and plots with the Economic League is an invention of the screenwriters.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: The show's version of the Economic League has them as a GovernmentConspiracy which plots terrorist attacks on British soil in order to frame the communists. The RealLife Economic League didn't go up anywhere near as high as the one depicted here and never did anything worse than giving alleged communist sympathizer's names to their employers.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: HistoricalVillainUpgrade:
** UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill is a more controversial figure than he once was, but the CorruptPolitician of the show who orchestrates the murder of Field Marshal Russell as a [[PretextForWar pretext for the the Irish Civil War]] and plots with the Economic League is an invention of the screenwriters.
** Campbell appears to be a fictionalisation of Charles Rafter, the Irish chief constable of Birmingham who was brought in to deal with the gang problem and crushed the original Peaky Blinders. While not much is known about Rafter's personal life, it seems unlikely that he was a sadistic rapist who beat prisoners to death and participated in political assassinations. Rafter was also much more effective against gang crime than Campbell, and seems to have been less of a HolierThanThou {{Jerkass}} than his fictional counterpart.
** Similarly, Field Marshal Russell in season two appears to be a fictionalised version of Henry Hughes Wilson, the British Field Marshal whose murder by the Anti-Treaty [=IRA=] kicked off the Irish Civil War, and is a war criminal and rapist. This is only half true; Wilson really was accused of brutality towards civilians during the Anglo-Irish War, but there is no evidence that he ever raped or tried to rape anybody as Russell is shown doing to Lizzie.
** The show's version of the Economic League has them as a GovernmentConspiracy which plots terrorist attacks on British soil in order to frame the communists. The RealLife Economic League didn't go up anywhere near as high as the one depicted here and never did anything worse than giving alleged communist sympathizer's names to their employers.
** UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill is a more controversial figure than he once was, but the CorruptPolitician of the show who orchestrates the murder of Field Marshal Russell as a [[PretextForWar pretext for the the Irish Civil War]] and plots with the Economic League is an invention of the screenwriters.
** Campbell appears to be a fictionalisation of Charles Rafter, the Irish chief constable of Birmingham who was brought in to deal with the gang problem and crushed the original Peaky Blinders. While not much is known about Rafter's personal life, it seems unlikely that he was a sadistic rapist who beat prisoners to death and participated in political assassinations. Rafter was also much more effective against gang crime than Campbell, and seems to have been less of a HolierThanThou {{Jerkass}} than his fictional counterpart.
** Similarly, Field Marshal Russell in season two appears to be a fictionalised version of Henry Hughes Wilson, the British Field Marshal whose murder by the Anti-Treaty [=IRA=] kicked off the Irish Civil War, and is a war criminal and rapist. This is only half true; Wilson really was accused of brutality towards civilians during the Anglo-Irish War, but there is no evidence that he ever raped or tried to rape anybody as Russell is shown doing to Lizzie.
** The show's version of the Economic League has them as a GovernmentConspiracy which plots terrorist attacks on British soil in order to frame the communists. The RealLife Economic League didn't go up anywhere near as high as the one depicted here and never did anything worse than giving alleged communist sympathizer's names to their employers.
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*** Scratch that, his biggest BSOD comes in 5.06, [[spoiler: after the assassination attempt fails spectacularly, as his friends Barney and Aberama are killed, Tommy is faced with the prospect of the man who he finally can't beat, and the hallucination of Grace urges him to leave everything behind and commit suicide. The last shot of Season 5 is Tommy screaming when he's about to blow his trigger]].
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*** Scratch that, his biggest BSOD comes in 5.06, [[spoiler: after the assassination attempt fails spectacularly, as his friends Barney and Aberama are killed, Tommy is faced with the prospect of the man who he finally can't beat, and the hallucination of Grace urges him to leave everything behind and commit suicide. The last shot of Season 5 is Tommy screaming with a creepy face when he's about to blow his trigger]].
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The series progressively becomes this with each season as more psychological thriller elements get thrown in revolving around Tommy and his mental state. Not that the series isn't already dark and edgy to begin with, though.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The series progressively becomes this with each season as more psychological thriller elements get thrown in revolving around Tommy and his mental state. Not that the series isn't already dark and edgy to begin with, though.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The series progressively becomes this with each season as more psychological thriller elements get thrown in revolving Tommy and his mental state.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The series progressively becomes this with each season as more psychological thriller elements get thrown in revolving around Tommy and his mental state.state. Not that the series isn't already dark and edgy to begin with, though.
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** [[spoiler: Diana cheats on Oswald with Tommy in season six.]]
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The series progressively becomes this with each season and more psychological thriller elements get thrown in revolving Tommy and his mental state.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The series progressively becomes this with each season and as more psychological thriller elements get thrown in revolving Tommy and his mental state.
