Peaky Blinders Watch Order: The Complete Guide, BBC vs Netflix Confusion Decoded & The Immortal Man Included
📅 August 8, 2026 · ⏱ 9 min read · 🎩 36 Episodes + 1 Film Covered
Start Reading Fix the BBC vs Netflix ConfusionPeaky Blinders looks simple on paper — six seasons, then a movie. But for most of its run, the show quietly lived a double life: broadcast on the BBC in the UK first, then released to the rest of the world on Netflix, sometimes weeks later and sometimes a full year later, with no consistent pattern. That gap spoiled the show for international fans for years, and most watch order guides never explain why it happened.
This guide covers all of it. You get a clean recommended order, a full decoder for the BBC-versus-Netflix confusion, a breakdown of how Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man works as both a series finale and a launchpad for what’s next, and where the upcoming 1953-set sequel series fits in.
Watch Season 1 → Season 2 → Season 3 → Season 4 → Season 5 → Season 6 → Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. The new 1953-set sequel series will follow once it releases. If you’re outside the UK, know going in that BBC broadcast dates and Netflix’s international release dates for each season were never the same — see the decoder below.
The Recommended Watch Order (Full)
Release order and story order are identical for Peaky Blinders — there’s no separate chronological path to worry about. This is simply the cleanest path through everything that exists so far, plus what’s coming next.
Birmingham, 1919. Thomas Shelby and his family’s gang come under scrutiny from a Belfast police chief sent to clean up the city, just as Tommy spots a chance to move up in the criminal world. The tight, tense origin season for the entire saga.
The Shelbys expand their ambitions to London, drawing the attention of more dangerous rivals as Tommy’s criminal empire grows.
Tommy’s wedding sets off a chain of events pulling the family deeper into international intrigue and betrayal from within their own ranks.
A Mafia vendetta threatens the entire Shelby family over Christmas, in one of the show’s most tightly plotted seasons.
The 1929 stock market crash throws the family’s fortunes into turmoil, while Tommy’s growing political ambitions pull him toward fascism’s rising threat. Also the first season to move from BBC Two to BBC One.
The final television season, delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, closes out Tommy Shelby’s story as a TV character — while deliberately setting up the story to continue as a feature film rather than a seventh season.
Set during World War II, Tommy Shelby returns to a bombed Birmingham and gets pulled into secret wartime missions based on true events. Wraps up the original Tommy Shelby story while quietly setting the stage for what comes next — see the section below.
Officially ordered but not yet released as of mid-2026. Set in post-war Birmingham during the city’s reconstruction, following a new generation of the Shelby family. Steven Knight returns as writer, with Cillian Murphy serving as executive producer.
The BBC vs Netflix Confusion — Decoded
This is the detail that made Peaky Blinders one of the most spoiler-vulnerable shows of the 2010s for anyone outside the UK, and it rarely gets explained clearly: the gap between the BBC broadcast and the international Netflix release was never consistent.
| Season | BBC Broadcast | Netflix International | Approximate Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | September 2013 | September 30, 2014 | ~1 year |
| Season 5 | Aug 25–Sep 22, 2019 | October 4, 2019 | ~2 weeks |
| Season 6 | February 27, 2022 | June 10, 2022 | ~3.5 months |
The Movie Does Double Duty
The Immortal Man isn’t simply “one more episode’s worth of story” — creator Steven Knight built it to close one chapter and open another at the same time, which is worth understanding before you press play.
Job One: Finishing Tommy’s Story
The film picks up Tommy Shelby’s arc where Season 6 left off, shifting the timeline into World War II — a chapter Knight has said he planned as far back as after Season 1.
Job Two: A Backdoor Pilot
The film also functions as a backdoor pilot, quietly setting up the tone and stakes for the sequel series to come, without requiring a cliffhanger ending of its own.
The Jump to 1953
The film is set during World War II; the sequel series then jumps forward again to 1953, focused on Birmingham’s reconstruction and a new generation of Shelbys taking the reins.
What This Means for You
Don’t expect the film to leave Tommy’s story on a cliffhanger the way Season 6 did — it’s built to feel complete on its own, while still laying groundwork for a new cast to carry the Shelby name forward.
Quick Reference Table: Every Entry in the Franchise
| Title | Type | Episodes | Year | Essential? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | TV Series | 6 | 2013 | Must Watch |
| Season 2 | TV Series | 6 | 2014 | Must Watch |
| Season 3 | TV Series | 6 | 2016 | Must Watch |
| Season 4 | TV Series | 6 | 2017 | Must Watch |
| Season 5 | TV Series | 6 | 2019 | Must Watch |
| Season 6 | TV Series | 6 | 2022 | TV Finale |
| The Immortal Man | Film | — | 2026 | The Continuation |
| Sequel Series (1953) | TV Series | 12 (2 × 6) | TBA | Not Yet Released |
Frequently Asked Questions
Final Verdict: What’s the Best Way to Watch Peaky Blinders?
For most viewers: watch the six seasons in straight release order, then The Immortal Man. There’s no separate chronological order to worry about here — the show’s real complication was never its story, but the unpredictable gap between the BBC broadcast and its international Netflix arrival.
If you’re catching up today, that gap doesn’t matter anymore — everything is already streaming. But it explains a lot of the show’s history as a spoiler minefield, and it’s worth remembering once the 1953 sequel series finally lands, since there’s no guarantee that release pattern will be any more predictable than it was the first time around.
With Tommy Shelby’s story now closed out across six seasons and one film, the franchise hands the reins to a new generation of Shelbys — a fitting way for a show about legacy and family to keep its own legacy going.
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Bookmark this page — we’ll update it the moment the 1953 sequel series gets a release date. And if this guide helped, check out our other watch order guides below.
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