'Peaky Blinders' season 5: Thomas loved Grace, adored May, but let's be honest, he needs Jesse Eden to face the Fascists

After Grace Thomas never truly fell in love, but while he respected May his relationship with Jesse was purely business.

Thomas Shelby (Cillian Murphy), the patriarch of BBC One's cult classic, 'Peaky Blinders', has some serious issue with women, and it is no secret. A former war-hero, shell shocked by the petrifying experiences of war, Thomas likes to be alone and only seeks company when it is time for business. As the second, yet the head, of the Shelby family, he is probably the only stable-headed man in the family since his elder brother Arthur (Paul Anderson) and youngest brother, the late John Shelby (Joe Cole), are basically the spoilt brats of the clan. Yet over the course of the last four seasons, Thomas has fallen in and out of love, but his love is of a different kind. 

Although we do have a new mistress, to be played by Anya-Taylor Joy, coming to Small Heath, Birmingham, in Season 5, let's take a look at the relationships Thomas had earlier maintained with Grace (Annabelle Wallis), May Carleton (Charlotte Riley), and Jesse Eden (Charlie Murphy). However, we are ruling out Lizzie (Natasha O'Keeffe) here, since she is already a member of the Shelby family by having given birth to a child with Thomas. 

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