Good to see we have some viewers! Does anyone have reactions or thoughts as we come up the home stretch?
Here's my tuppence (SPOILERS TO FOLLOW)….
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I liked this last episode for plotting and resolution, but my word the dialogue was clunky & saccharine. I didn't like the heavy-handed exposition from all corners about Tommy's 'goodness', either; actions should speak for these characters, especially the protagonist.
Arthur has fully mentally snapped on losing Linda, and it's almost a relief. I actually felt for Linda for the first time in this last episode - her life has become a horror-show since the Peakys met her, Polly shooting her was just icing on the cake. That machinegun freakout Arthur had at the Docks was like something out of Peter Jackson's BAD TASTE, fully ridiculous.
Mosely is giving off very homosexual vibes, so to remind us that is not the case we had to watch him & a ballerina get backdoor action then have him proposition Lizzie a minute after. How disgusting. It's quite painfully obvious he's conspiring with Michael's wife, too, but who cares? Mosley's BNF speech was big boring, and didn't really sound like something a man of his stature might have said back then (talking about money, religion & common crime in polite company? Vulgarity!)
Ada took Ben's death rather well, all things considered. I think a woman in her position back then would realistically have been more worried about the security of herself and her unborn baby than she seems to be. Oh, well. I couldn't feel much for the little boy killed in the blast either, knowing that had he lived to his teens he'd have been conscripted and likely shelled anyway. Foreknowledge really ruins this show, in some respects (perils of period drama).
I think there are too many rival antagonists in the plot, what with the Triads arriving to stand beside the Mafia/Billy Boys/UDL/the BNF/everyone else. Realistically one or all of these groups would have conspired to take out the Shelbys by now. It's boring to have so many inert factions willing to take a truce (though that does feel in-character for Chang).
Wasn't Finn supposed to become a main character this season? Seems like Bedlam Barney is going to usurp him. In fact Curly is getting more lines and more to do than Finn & Michael combined, but I prefer it that way - the Gypsies & the characters of Charlie's Yard are the more interesting set to follow, frankly. I like hearing about Tommy's army days over his current tribulations, too.
And Aberama looked so handsome & fuckable in bed with Polly, lissom body & chest hair on full display. Sigh. The Guardian had this to say about Mr. Gold: ‘Chivalrous....I liked his subtle spit at Mosley. I like the fact that he and Polly clearly had great sex. I like his refusal to sully his airspace with Jimmy McCavern until his day of reckoning comes.’ He's become a strange enigmatic dark horse of the piece, and isn't that so very like Aiden Gillen?
