Steven Knight
Synopsis
As the 1920s draw to a close, series 5 sees the world thrown into turmoil by the financial crash of 1929. Michael Gray (Finn Cole), Polly’s son, was in New York looking after the business’s finances and unfortunately ignored Tommy’s instructions pull their money and investments, and so returns to England with his new American wife Gina (Anya Taylor-Joy) to plead his case.
Meanwhile Tommy Shelby is now MP for Birmingham South and unable to shake off his criminal past, he is soon pulled into the darker machinations of the British establishment, where he is forced into business with the most unscrupulous character he has yet encountered. No less unsettling to Shelby is his sense that someone within his own organisation could be trying to unseat him.
With a new decade about to dawn, Shelby foresees a dark future both for the Peaky Blinders and for the country as a whole. In both cases, it seems that the devil is deep inside the walls.
Credits
Written by
Steven Knight
Directed by
Anthony Byrne
Starring
Cillian Murphy
Helen McCrory
Paul Anderson
Sophie Rundle
Finn Cole
Anya Taylor-Joy
Sam Claflin
Tom Hardy
Produced by
Ann Harrison Baxter
Awards
Best Drama Performance
Cillian Murphy
Best Drama
Peaky Blinders
Best Drama Series
Peaky Blinder
Make up and hair design
Loz Schiavo
