Yahoo News Will John Shelby Return In 'Peaky Blinders' Season 6?
One of the few reliable elements of Peaky Blinders is that you never know exactly who's dead at any one moment.
Between Arthur Shelby and Tom Hardy's Alfie Solomons somehow cheating the Grim Reaper, and the actually dead Grace Shelby persistently beaming in from beyond the river Styx, there's a fair chance that pretty much anyone who's 'died' could be in line for a Lazarus act.
So, naturally, fan theories tend to focus on who the next unexpectedly undead character will be, and John Shelby actor Joe Cole has finally responded to whether he might return.
The pyrotechnics enthusiast and would-be country squire, occasionally known as John Boy when things got tender, has been dead for some time. He was sadly shot to death at the end of season four on his country estate by the Changretta family, and not just a little bit shot to death either – he got taken down in a hail of bullets, although a dozen hailstones would constitute quite a small hailstorm.
But could he pull an Alfie Solomons? Cole has spoken.
"I think it’s hard to come back from that," he told Radio Times. "So I'm not sure!"
What to make of that? Yes, on the face of it, it sounds pretty straightforward. Cole knows as well as anyone that John was shot with a lot of bullets. That exclamation mark might just denote the exclamation of a man who thought he was going to get through an interview without talking about Peaky Blinders more than two years after he left it. Or, just possibly, it might be the flat-batted response of a man who's been measured up for his flat cap and waistcoat again.
More likely the first one, but still.
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