Peaky Blinders recap: series six, episode three – Stephen Graham, at last
The flat-capped epic’s final series reached its midway mark with an arrival, a return and a departure. Here’s your postmortem of episode three, Gold …
Hello, Stephen Graham …
“My name’s Hayden Stagg. I hear there’s some men from Birmingham looking for me.” We’d been eagerly awaiting the debut of Stephen Graham as a guest star, an actor who always looked as if he belonged in Peakyland. On the 41-minute mark, he finally arrived. What followed was an electrifying scene that defied expectations. No explosive violence or gangster grandstanding, just the nagging voice of Arthur’s inner demons.
Stand-in boss Ada (Sophie Rundle) sent ambitious young buck Isiah Jesus (Daryl McCormack) to Liverpool to deal with the union conveyor Stagg, who had been dipping into the Shelbys’ opium stash at Salthouse Dock and selling the stolen skag in local pubs for profit. Tommy had left a black star, or kill order,
