10 Best Peaky Blinders Episodes

10. The Duel (Season 4 - Episode 5)

As Luca Changretta and Tommy Shelby played a game of cat and mouse through the backstreets of Birmingham, armed to the teeth and with the full intention of killing each other, you couldn't help but wonder if any other TV show was this good on its best day.

Michael and Polly's betrayal of Tommy and Polly's evening spent with Aberama Gold, all came into view here as we wound up for the epic finish to the fifth series of the show.

As the episode played out, It came as close to a full-on The Good, The Bad And The Ugly-style shootout as we have ever got in Peaky Blinders before, with Tommy facing down Luca & his associates across Birmingham's alleyways and back buildings with nothing but his prepared wits and hidden machine gun.

However, more than any of that, the meeting between Luca Changretta and Alfie Solomons is something else entirely, Alfie demonstrates his own prejudices and his surprising ability to speak multiple languages, much to Changretta's chagrin. Whilst the pair make a deal to bring about the end of Thomas Shelby, Alfie knows the cost of failure and would pay it just one episode later.