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Taboo (2017)
Season 1
TV-MA
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1814: James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa and is encircled by conspiracy, murder and betrayal.
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8 Episodes
Episode 1
E1
Episode 1
After being presumed dead, James Delaney resurfaces in London seeking revenge for the death of his father and inheriting the family shipping empire, which threatens the ambitions of his half-sister and the East India Company.
Episode 2
E2
Episode 2
Despite Delaney's return to London setting tongues wagging, he enlists allies in his quest to reclaim his legacy, while an unexpected arrival at the reading of the will disrupts his plans and reveals the nature of his inheritance.
Episode 3
E3
Episode 3
James Delaney decides to take radical action in order to safeguard himself from those intent on his demise.
Episode 4
E4
Episode 4
Blacklisted, James Delaney sets out to protect his business by any means necessary.
Episode 5
E5
Episode 5
James Delaney is blackmailed into a dangerous mission, whilst animosity between the Crown and Company escalates to a new level.
Episode 6
E6
Episode 6
When his plot is betrayed and Zilpha takes drastic action against her husband, Delaney faces all out chaos, complicated further by a family revelation and the increasingly desperate East India Company.
Episode 7
E7
Episode 7
James Delaney has seemingly lost everything but, when he suffers a devastating betrayal, he realises even his freedom is in jeopardy. Armed with the opportunity they have been longing for, the Crown and Company conspire to bring him down once and for all. Elsewhere, Lorna sets out to discover the truth, whilst Zilpha perhaps has already found her own.
Episode 8
E8
Episode 8
As James Delaney conspires to escape, an enraged Prince Regent unleashes one final plan to destroy him.
Cast of Season 1
Tom Hardy
James Keziah Delaney
David Hayman
Brace
Jonathan Pryce
Stuart Strange
Oona Chaplin
Zilpha Geary
Richard Dixon
Pettifer
Leo Bill
Wilton
Edward Hogg
Michael 'Godders' Godfrey
Jessie Buckley
Lorna Bow
Stephen Graham
Atticus
Season 1 Ratings & Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Lorraine Ali
It's worth the effort.
Observer
Alanna Martinez
The first episode's muted colors, dialogue-scarce scenes and preliminary plot set-up are worth plodding through for its penultimate showdown.
Variety
Sonia Saraiya
As Hardy has demonstrated in several other projects, he is eminently watchable... But Taboo seems to have no idea what to do with his presence, short of giving him a scar and wrapping him in black broadcloth.
AV Club
Emily L. Stephens
If Taboo can eschew its leanings into the outré in favor of the concrete, it will have more going for it than Tom Hardy's powerful presence.
MTV
Inkoo Kang
With listless pacing and no characters to care about... Taboo, you win. You're the best at being the worst.
The Atlantic
Sophie Gilbert
Hardy, always an admirably committed actor, has the magnetism to elevate even the silliest moments, making this an intriguing, if sometimes oppressively moody trip into a sinister underworld.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Neal Justin
Hardy may want to mix in a romantic comedy sometime soon, if only for his own sanity. But for now, he's got demons to work out and it's an exorcism worth watching.
Salon.com
Melanie McFarland
The series itself dives into bewildering sojourns through memory. . .or is it fantasy?. . . showing tribespeople with painted faces and bizarre asides in which James whispers in unfamiliar tongues to unseen forces.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Matt Zoller Seitz
This is clearly an obsessive, personal work, and it's intriguing on that level - more so if you're a fan of Tom Hardy, who has become the most exciting example of the Miserablist school of acting.
Newsday
Verne Gay
Hardy's great - as always - but the story at times can be as turgid as the Thames in winter.
Uproxx
Alan Sepinwall
It's an utter slog, and the biggest creative misstep FX has made in a while.
AV Club
Esther Zuckerman
This tale sometimes feels like what might have happened if Sweeney Todd went after the East India Company, but it's weighed down by less-than-thrilling characterization.
Vox
Emily St. James
Some of my tolerance is thanks to Hardy and his capable co-stars. Some of it thanks to Taboo's sumptuous period detail... There's enough intriguing stuff here to keep me watching.
USA Today
Robert Bianco
What it lacks, unfortunately, is Thrones' sweep, moments of playfulness and narrative drive - or any drive at all.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
FX dramas are invariably gritty, but the mood here seems organic to the story, in the way it did, say, on Deadwood. Whether Taboo can rise to that level remains to be seen, but based on first impressions, Hardy's TV return is pretty hardy indeed.
New York Times
Mike Hale
The focus on grim portentousness and rank atmosphere keeps bogging down the story, which needed more attention to achieve the balance it seeks among gothic bodice-ripper, Heart of Darkness social tract and corporate thriller.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Taboo is perched somewhere between the utterly baroque, the intensely theatrical, and the routinely expositional.
Entertainment Weekly
Darren Franich
Taboo's gruff and tough and silly, and I'm hooked.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
It's definitely a Tom Hardy vehicle, but it's got a hell of an ensemble supporting him.
indieWire
Ben Travers
It's an aggressive, fearless, and periodically nasty story filled with men who Delaney wants to kill, and told in a fashion that makes waiting all the more entertaining.
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