That older brother who should've died in season one. Tommy tells a gypsy woman named Caula that Arthur hanged himself from a bridge. And it sounds plausible. Tommy found his brother crashed, high on opium. Arthur, in a drug-fueled haze, thought Tommy was the devil. A fight broke out. In a scene that'll probably become one of Kieran Murphy's most talked-about, Tommy confesses over his dead sister Ada's body: the gunshot didn't hit anyone.
Steven Knight turned Arthur from a victim of circumstance into his brother's victim. The character architecture is flawless. Tommy, who spent his life trying to protect his family, ends up destroying it himself. <a href=https://www.igor-scherbakov.ru/stsenarist-ot-idei-do-ekrana/smert-artura-shelbi-v-peaky-blinders-stsenarnyy-razbor-glavnogo-tvista/><font color=black>Peaky Blinders: The Ending That Changed Everything</font></a>
A man's response. Very Shelby, actually. Tommy carried guilt for Arthur until his own death. A word on the music. Anna Calvi worked on the show since the very first season.
But without Arthur, without that wild grin, without his raspy "By order of the Peaky Blinders," the world of the show will never be the same. That's the writers' real achievement. They gave the character an ending that hurts, but feels true.