This Peaky Blinders Spinoff Sounds a Lot Like Peaky Blinders

Are you missing Peaky Blinders already? Only about two months have passed since Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man proved that most of the men in the Peaky Blinders universe are not actually immortal (which is to say they die), which means it’s time to get a whole new batch of Blinder Boys in the mix. On May 22, Netflix released a first look at its yet-to-be-titled Peaky Blinders spinoff series, which I’m deciding is called Peaky Blinders: The Greatest Generation. (Spitballing here, but Netflix, I’m free to take calls.) The Peaky Blinders sequel stars Charlie Heaton as Charles Shelby, who, in the years following WWII, is trying to embrace “normality,” having “severed all ties to the Peaky Blinders.” Right, well, if there’s one thing we know about the Peaky Blinders, it’s that severing ties doesn’t work out so well.

Jamie Bell co-stars alongside Heaton as Duke Shelby, Charles Shelby’s half-brother, who Immortal Man fans will remember was played by Barry Keoghan in the movie. The end of Immortal Man suggested there was a way forward for Duke that did not involve the worst of the worst Shelby activities, but the nature of the sequel series suggests that perhaps he didn’t learn his lesson. The untitled spinoff also stars Jessica Brown Findlay, Lashana Lynch, and Lucy Karczewski. You know who else it could plausibly star? Tom Hardy, who was just fired from Mobland. Hardy played Jewish mobster Alfie Solomons in Peaky Blinders, who already died and came back to life once in the greater Blinders universe. Working title Peaky Blinders: This Time It’s Post-WWII will be out on BBC One and Netflix later this year.