Peaky Blinders Season 7 might be in the cards after all, but with a twist

Promotional poster for Peaky Blinders | Image via Netflix
Promotional poster for Peaky Blinders | Image via Netflix

Peaky Blinders Season 7 might be on the horizon, and for many, it feels like proof that some stories never really end. They drift into memory, linger in atmosphere, and leave behind a trace you don’t quite shake off. That’s what Peaky Blinders became for so many people: a series that slipped past the screen and settled somewhere deeper. It wasn’t just the violence or the period setting. It was how the show made you sit in silence. It was Tommy Shelby’s stillness, the kind of quiet that demanded your attention without ever raising its voice.

When the series began back in 2013, it gave us something rare. A drama that felt both grand and intimate. One that wasn’t afraid of slow burns or soft grief. It trusted us to watch closely.


The Immortal Man and the weight of unfinished business

Season 6 seemed like a final bow. But Steven Knight, the man behind it all, had one more chapter in him, or perhaps something more transitional. The Immortal Man, filmed in 2024, brings Tommy Shelby into World War II. Cillian Murphy returns, joined by a cast that includes Rebecca Ferguson, Barry Keoghan, Stephen Graham, and Tim Roth.

Knight hasn’t offered much detail, but his phrasing, end of a chapter, carries the kind of ambiguity fans latch onto. Is it closure? Or an open door disguised as a curtain call?

Peaky Blinders | Image via Netflix
Peaky Blinders | Image via Netflix

A different kind of continuation

Reports from Tom’s Guide point to a possible seventh season. Not a direct follow-up. Not a rehash. Instead, it is a leap forward to 1950s Britain — a country remaking itself. Culture shifting. Power changing hands.

Tommy Shelby might not be center stage. Maybe he’s gone. Maybe he’s just a story whispered in dark corners. What matters is that the world he helped shape still casts a long shadow. The new focus could be on those navigating what he left behind.

As of now, nothing’s confirmed. Netflix and the BBC have been quiet. But silence isn’t always the absence of something. Sometimes, it’s the space just before the story picks up again.

Peaky Blinders | Image via Netflix
Peaky Blinders | Image via Netflix

Between nostalgia and risk

There’s hesitation, of course. Some fans don’t want more. They want to leave the show where it ended, unresolved in all the right ways. Others are open to returning, as long as what comes next doesn’t cheapen what came before.

The rumors began in tabloids like The Sun, which doesn’t help the case for credibility. But this isn’t about believing headlines. It’s about that feeling: what if there’s still more worth saying?

Peaky Blinders | Image via Netflix
Peaky Blinders | Image via Netflix

What Peaky Blinders left behind

More than anything, Peaky Blinders left a tone. A rhythm. It made people lean in. The show was about power, yes, but also about loneliness. About men trying to build something out of ruin, and discovering that legacy doesn’t always wait for permission.

Cillian Murphy’s performance grounded it all. He gave Tommy Shelby weight without exposition. With every glance, he said what words couldn’t. A man is constantly walking a tightrope between control and collapse.

It wasn’t a series that begged for attention. It earned it, quietly. And in doing so, it invited people into something more reflective than reactive.


If the story continues

If there is a Peaky Blinders Season 7, it has to remember where it came from. It needs to slow down, to think, to ask questions that don’t come with answers. The 1950s setting offers space for new tensions. But the heart of the show, loss, silence, the price of survival, can’t be left behind.

For now, The Immortal Man carries the Shelby name forward. Whether it closes a chapter or lights the match for a new one, it reminds us why this world is stuck. Because Peaky Blinders wasn’t about endings. It was about what we carry when nothing is finished, and everything still matters.

Edited by Ranjana Sarkar