Peaky Blinders: Every Season Ranked Worst To Best (So Far)

5. Season Three

Season Three's main problem was its reliance on complicated narratives that did more to confuse rather than engage the audience. With Russian aristocrats, The Economic League and a deadly priest in the mix, Peaky Blinders' third season was too convoluted for its own good.

Peaky Blinders has a strange tradition of killing off major characters at the beginning of seasons rather than at the end (usually due to circumstances out of the show's control) and Season Three is no exception.

After a grand an expansive premiere episode that focuses almost entirely on Tommy and Grace's wedding, the new Mrs. Shelby is promptly killed off at the end of episode two. Grace's death never feels wholly connected to the rest of the ongoing plot of the season and although her ghost haunts him to this day, it feels like a creative decision that lacked the punch it deserved.

Paddy Considine is the highlight of the season as the vicious Father John Hughes who makes for great season villain even if his motives and desires are mixed in with the messy Economic League plotline.

Overall, it is just a season that fails to keep the focus of those watching and is the weakest of the bunch.