The series finale of Taboo is upon us.
Any doubts or debate about what an extraordinary, revolutionary, show Tom Hardy’s gory, Gothic, drama has been are ended by who viewers will be rooting for.
Not the Monarchy, the prosperity of the nation, or the country’s most prestigious businessman (one of 1814 England’s golfers).
No. Incredibly, the eight million strong audience will be firmly on the side of James Delaney – a strange, savage, social outsider prone to acts of treason, cannibalism, voodoo, nightmares about the slaves he killed, and incest with his sister
You don’t get that on Casualty.
Taboo and its dark-hearted, hero really have changed the traditionally tame terrain of Saturday night primetime British television forever.
A mix of Penny Dreadful, Dickens, Heart of Darkness, and Heathcliff if he suffered from prophetic visions of Marilyn Manson videos, Taboo has been fantastically mysterious/bewildering from the beginning. So unsurprisingly, as we head for the denouement several questions remain…
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