10 Best Peaky Blinders Episodes
5. The Noose (Season 4 - Episode 1)
Upon beginning a new season of Peaky Blinders, one is usually prepared to witness the building of a new enemy and the start of the problems that the Shelby's will face in the next five episodes.
Watch you don't expect is for them to be attacked from all sides straight out of the gate. As epic as it was devastating, the opening to season 4 saw John's death and Michael come within an inch of the same fate at the hands of the American Mafia.
When each of the scattered Shelby's receive black hands in the post they just don't expect what comes next to come so soon, a full-on assault on their lives. Tommy gets the word out after murdering a mole in his midst, though he can't contact John, so he sends Michael to go and get him.
The shootout between John, Michael and the Mafia is epic and John is killed. Through the season, Tommy uses John's death to bring the Blinders back together and begins planning his defence and strategy against Changretta and the Mafia.
The episode also picks up from the cliffhanger of the last season, as Polly, Arthur, John, and Michael are about to be hanged, Tommy manages to rescue them in the knick of time but all it does is serve to scatter his family.