The sixth season of “Peaky Blinders” is full of symbolism, like the eyes in the sky at the beginning of the first episode, but it also has other hidden meanings, such as the white horse that appears in the last episode. Therefore, we explain what the end of ‘Peaky Blinders’ means.
Explanatory ending to “Peaky Blinders”, season 6
Throughout the sixth season of “Peaky Blinders” it seems that Thomas Shelby’s life is a real tragedy: Polly’s aunt is murdered, Ruby’s daughter dies, Lizzie wants to leave him and, as if that were not enough, she is diagnosed with tuberculosis.
Along with this disease, he is predicted to have some life time, so Tommy leaves all his property ready for his family when he dies.
However, before that happens, the “Peaky Blinders” have a lot of enemies to deal with and these clashes can be seen in the last episode of this last season.
On the one hand, Arthur is waiting for the Irish IRA at the Garrison pub. They confront each other in a shootout in which the older of the Selby brothers wins and together they manage to avenge the death of Aunt Poly.
On the other hand, it seems that Tommy’s naughty son, Duke, has become quite Peaky Blinder. And it is that with the help of Isaiah he confronts Billy Grade, the traitor of Thomas at the end of season 5.
However, Finn, the younger of the Shelby brothers, intervenes and attempts to shoot Duke. Tommy’s eldest son had pulled the bullets out of Finn’s gun, so he misses his target.
But he reveals his true nature by trying to kill his nephew, about whom he is informed “by order of the Peaky Blinders” that he is being expelled from the family and Finn swears that he will take revenge.
On the other end of the spectrum is the long-awaited confrontation between Tommy and Michael Gray, who throughout the season declares that he wants to take revenge on the leader of the ‘Peaky Blinders’ because he accused him of being responsible for the death of his mother, Polly . Gray.
Michael devises a strategy to meet with Tommy in Canada to close the deal that is being discussed all season. His goal was to entice Thomas to place a bomb in his car to kill him.
But he does not expect Johnny Dogs to change the bomb in the car of Michael’s allies, causing the death of the enemies of the “Peaky Blinders”. Finally, Thomas Shelby puts an end to Aunt Polly’s prophecy that “one of them would die” as she kills Michael’s cousin by shooting him in the eye.
Is Thomas Shelby dying in the sixth season of “Peaky Blinders”?
After arranging all his affairs, Tommy gathers the whole Selby family to say goodbye. However, there are three absentees: on the one hand, Lizzie, who after Ruby’s death chose to leave Thomas. Finn, who is considered a traitor, and Arthur, who is said to “not like goodbyes.”
And it is that, although Tommy only tells them that he will be gone for a while, the reality is that he wants to commit suicide before his illness ends with him.
He plans to die with his horses on a mountain, but as soon as he prepares to shoot himself, he has a vision in which Ruby’s daughter tells him that he is not really sick.
So he discovers in a newspaper note about Mosley’s marriage to Diana Mitford that Dr. Holford, who diagnosed him with such a deadly disease, is a person close to the fascist leader.
So Thomas realizes that his illness was in fact a joke that Mosley was plotting to put an end to.
After confronting Dr. Holford and confirming his suspicions, Tommy returns to the gypsy trailer he lived in, only to see it surrounded by flames. Then he moves away with his white horse while in the background the flames are visible.
What does the white horse from “Peaky Blinders” mean?
The white horse that appears at the end of the last episode of “Peaky Blinders” has a hidden meaning. And it’s directly related to the first episode of the series, which aired almost ten years ago. Remember that, in the beginning, Thomas Shelby could be seen riding a black horse.
In this sense, it is a metaphor for the resurrection of the leader of the “Peaky Blinders”. With the caravan and his most intimate belongings burning, as was customary at a gypsy funeral, Tommy’s enemies may think he did commit suicide.
This could make one think that Thomas would apply the same strategy of Alfie Solomons to make everyone believe he is dead and then take revenge on those who made him believe he was sick.
However, the fact that Tommy is now riding a white horse makes us wonder if his dark nature, which we have seen in every era, has really changed.
Source: univision
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