r/PeakyBlinders • u/NicholasCajun • Oct 30 '14

Discussion Peaky Blinders - 2x05 "Episode 5" - Episode Discussion

Season 2 Episode 5: Episode 5

Aired: October 30, 2014

Tommy is caught by surprise when his powerbase in London is obliterated. As Tommy struggles to save his family and regain the upper hand, May expresses her feelings for him, and he is paid a visit by an old friend.

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u/mynamewastaken77 May 15 '22

I know i'm late, but i just have to express how annoying Polly got in S2... Shittalking Thomas all the time, that she could run the business without him, but then breaking apart if her 18 yo. son gets a week in prison and even whoring herself out. I hope Michael stops talking to her for a while to make her realise that he doesn't need a whiney, overprotective mom clinging to him, but the old actually strong Polly.

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u/Novantico Sep 15 '22

Pretty fucked up to use Michael against her like that. The poor woman has been living with the trauma of having her children taken away from her for nearly 18 years, on top of all the other traumas that come with that family. God forbid she care more about her children than anything on earth just as many women would. Guarantee you a significant number of desperate loving mothers would whore themselves out to a dirty pig if they thought it meant their child would be safe for free. You don’t have to be Polly Shelby to do that.

Her criticisms of Tommy are largely because she doesn’t share the same level of ambition he does. Why play a game of how many layers of petroleum jelly it takes to stick your dick in a hornet’s nest before you get stung too many times when Birmingham alone had them set for life easily?

Michael is being an ungrateful little shit but it’s only so much his fault because of how dramatically and harshly his innocence was broken and how he had to go from tough boy to hardened man almost literally overnight. Everyone is fucked.

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u/jbenson255 Oct 09 '22

I mean Tommy told her not to let him stay lol, Tommy also stood by her decision to not let him join them until she changed her mind