Should you watch Taboo?
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Taboo
Series · 2017
Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.
The sides of Taboo
- A man back from Africa with fourteen diamonds
- A strip of land the East India Company wants
- A half-mad heir in the London mud of 1814
Taboo is good for you if…
- you like a story that takes its time in the fog and the mud.
- you want Tom Hardy brooding and growling in every scene.
- you like Georgian London, ships and the East India Company.
Taboo is bad for you if…
- you can't watch throats cut and bodies opened.
- you need some light. Here nobody is clean and nothing is warm.
About: revenge · empire · family secrets
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