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all-mirth-no-matter · 1 year

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Ok this drives me nuts with Peaky Blinders season 1. It starts some time in 1919 as the first episode opener says. It ends with Tommy putting the black star in the diary on December 3rd.

Ada got pregnant (or was very early along) at the beginning of the season and had her baby mid-late season. So we know at least 8-9 months have passed from beginning to end. And I have very little experience identifying baby progress, but I’d guess Karl is still only a couple months old by the last episode.

But Tommy tells Lizzy that he’s been seeing her for the past TWO years since he got back from the war.

The war ended on November 11, 1918. Unless they all came back early (which I’m pretty sure they didn’t), they probably didn’t get home until around December of 1918.

So did they just fuck up with Tommy’s line to Lizzy? Or did they lap a year in the season, and it ends December 3, 1920?

I can’t remember and I can’t find it online anywhere if they say the year by the end of the season, but I feel like they kept making a point to talk about the new decade, so it feels like it was all still happening in 1919.

Anyone have any insight? I think they just messed up that line, but my need to be accurate for this fic is driving me crazy lol.

Edit: the answer is (according to scripts) it starts in February 1919 and ends in December 1919. Which means they just exaggerated the two years, since they were definitely still out on the lines when it ended in November 1918.

#Peaky blinders #Tommy Shelby #season two opens with two years later #but the internet disagrees #on whether that’s 1921 or 1922 #one things says freddie’s death is 1922 #the other says the timeline is 1921 #I know it’s all supposed to be kind of ambiguous #but I needta knowww #I’m prob gonna go with they messed up the line #and the whole season is set within 1919 #unless they actually did come home early #in which case I already fucked up my fic #I know very little about WWI #most of what I know has been from the show #and other movies #and the vague history that I remember from school #and my own research that I’ve done for the fic #I’m trying to be as accurate as possible #within the realm that’s already implausible of the Peaky blinders universe #like learning that razors would have been to valuable to use in the way they do #ok imma stop rambling now #any one got any insight?#would love to hear from you!

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