Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man is going to fix the biggest issue with the TV show

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man will see Tommy Shelby finally return after four years off our screens.

The Immortal Man will conclude the story of Peaky Blinders more than a decade after it first began, but the film will also make a major change to the story, fixing the biggest issue with the later seasons of the TV show.

Peaky Blinders is one of the most beloved TV series of all time, sitting at a whopping 8.7 on IMDb that place it above incredible shows such as The Simpsons, Severance, and The Boys.

Despite this, I and many others believe that the show peaks in its first few seasons and then becomes less enjoyable as it goes on.

For those who had never seen the series and only knew of it through the cultural phenomenon of weirdos wearing peaky hats and expensive suits though, season one is a massive shock.

Peaky Blinders was at its best in the first few seasons (BBC)

Where Peaky Blinders has been co-opted by ‘red-pill’ toxic masculinity content creators, the actual show is far more complex than this portrays.

Peaky Blinders, particularly in its earliest seasons, is predominantly focused on the PTSD that men returning from World War One suffered and how many of them struggled to leave the violence behind in Europe.

Speaking ahead of season five of the show, Cillian Murphy himself said: “Peaky Blinders is a post-war drama in that it looks at the experiences of a group of people who fought in the First World War and considers how the extreme violence they experienced in that war has affected them in later life.

The Immortal Man gets back to the most interesting part of Peaky Blinders (BBC)

“The PTSD that some of these characters suffer from is there in 1919 and still present in 1929 and will still be present in 1939.”

Whilst this is still present in the later seasons it does not play as clear a role as the series gets further and further away from World War One.

The film, however, deals with World War Two and how that changes the Shelby family, in addition to Tommy’s isolation and ongoing struggles with PTSD.

By bringing back the influence of war on the Birmingham crime family, focusing once again on Tommy’s relationships and trauma, and not falling fowl to the cultural phenomenon that Peaky Blinders is about hating women and walking in slow motion in expensive suits, The Immortal Man will return the franchise to its heyday.

A social historian and descendant of a real life Peaky Blinder gangster, Carl Chinn, has spoken about this, calling the cultural phenomenon the series has spawned ‘dangerous’.

He said in an exclusive interview with LADbible: “Because of the cultural approach so many people have taken, that they're ignoring the violence, the racism, the bullying, the sexual assaults of the real Peaky Blinders which I've studied in detail.

“[Fans] turn it into something that is just a fashion and ‘we're dressing like the real Peaky Blinders, we've got the hat, we've got the suits.’

“The real Peaky Blinders were poor men overwhelmingly were street traders trying to make a few bob or unskilled labourers in irregular work they couldn't afford fine clothes.” He called it a ‘worrying cultural phenomenon’.

The film appears to have succeeded however in overcoming this, debuting to a 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man is in cinemas tomorrow, 6 March.