Taboo- no spoilers

[OneWithTheForce]

Is anyone else eagerly awaiting the arrival of taboo starring my lover the beautiful Mr Hardy on Saturday 7th of jan?

Or do I have him all to myself?

Exactly, *Optimist

Also, he always seemed to know what people were going to do before they did it – going back to my point about whether we were meant to think he was a master strategist or had supernatural powers?

I also found that the 'exotic foreign' stuff didn't really go anywhere. Bit of chanting, burning things, smearing things etc, but I don't feel that we know any more at the end of the series as to where he learned it all, who from, how much it's real and how much just a crutch for him...

It was all laden with portent and interesting strands, but nothing much was developed or explored, IMO. In the end it came down to something that felt like the beginning of a crime caper, where they have hilarious hi-jinks while getting the crew together, only with added guttings and mumblings.

I agree there was too much left unexplored which left me with a sense of "is that it?" At the end.

Wrt planning the escape. I guess we are to believe they all just knew what was at stake and depended on JD getting out in order for him to take them away with him.

I guess we are to believe they all just knew what was at stake and depended on JD getting out in order for him to take them away with him

Which is why if Lorna had said when he was all mopey about Zilpha " come on you need to get out of here" it would not have worked but she emphasised all the other people who were depending on him.

I loved all of it. I can't fault anything.

Yes there was a lot of it messy and unexplained/unexplored and it was flawed. Some of it was a bit confused and a lot was hung on the sheer force of personality that is JD. It helped me to just see him as a sort of force of nature rather than a person, and that's what made people do what he wanted. He'd surrendered most of his humanity. And TH mostly carried that off as an actor - I think he wanted to create a really iconic character so that it ended up almost style over substance and a bit derivative. He will have to develop JD if there's another series. However I think he will and I will definitely be watching the next one. It was beautiful to look at, and had huge promise. And it had him saying 'Take that ducking dress off now'.

Or fucking dress even . There were no ducks involved. Except perhaps the ones being gutted in the market.

Another thing I've just realised is that aside from disembowelling people (okay that is quite naughty) we didn't get any insight at all into what these "dark" things he had done were. He kept referencing all the bad things he had done that were far worse than anything whoever he was talking to could imagine. I had assumed the final episode would show a flashback to his time in Africa that would explain the marks on his back/how he survived the ship sinking/ the chanting/the bad things he had done and that would provide some sort of "aha! now I understand" moment. That didn't happen. Have we to wait until the second series or are these things just going to be left to our imaginations? I would really like to know why his mother knew about the scars on his back.

Jonathon Pryce was brilliant imv. Superior, smug, arrogant barsteward, played to perfection and the King's bitch Jason Watkins was suitably dislikable.
Oona Chaplin's ethereal looks were quite haunting.
I liked the other female characters too.
Fortunately I have saved all the episodes on Sky so will rewatch.

They are still on iplayer for another 3ish weeks

I think they thought up as many taboo subjects as they could and then wrote a story to fit around them. We had rape, incest, murder, torture, cross dressing, slavery, gratuitous violence and probably more besides.

I've never watched anything on the TV so gruesome.

It does sound like that juvenile. Like they just fired as much as they could onto a page and thought "yeah, that'll do"

Https:www.facebook.com/Taboo2017TvSeries/

Wondered if you'd seen this page.

So is series 2 him going after Stuart Strange's brother?

If so, presumably Charles Dance is waiting for a call from his agent as we speak

Oh Charles Dance would be a brilliant brother!

I think he wanted to create a really iconic character so that it ended up almost style over substance

NAILED IT, James.

I think this is what I meant by it being a vanity project. Just him playing about, with his huge budget and flashy star colleagues.

Why did JD's house look so old? Surely it hadn't long been built in 1814?

Was it all old. Or was it just the kitchen which might have been soot covered due to Brace's healthy eating recipe selection.

www.google.co.uk/amp/ew.com/tv/2017/02/28/taboo-season-1-finale-postmortem-tom-hardy-steven-knight/amp/ this is an interesting interview with Tom Hardy and Steven Knight talking about the last episode and some of the driving forces behind characters behaviour. Haven't got time to analyse it to death comment on it now, but maybe later, fellow Taboo love/haters?

Interesting how Tom Hardy describes JD's relationship with Zilpha. Makes much more sense to me now.

Yes skooba all this candles and all that smoke from the fires. Had it thought about that.

at healthy eating recipe selection

*Hadn't

By the way, I don't think any of the characters who were apparently killed will be coming back - ie. Helga, Zilpha, Stewart Strange. I assume the new series will be wholly set in the Azores and probably the US, so any characters not on the ship will not be featured.

Why did JD's house look so old? Surely it hadn't long been built in 1814?

We don't know when it was built.

The house is on the river.The Great Fire took out the area around Fleet Street, St Paul's and Cheapside on the north bank. Even if it were on the north bank it could have been there from 1670 or so. If it's in Southwark it could be very old in 1814

I watched the final episode earlier. I really want to go back and watch the whole thing again and see if I can make more sense of it! But I loved it. I loved the darkness and grime and everything really.

I wasn't really familiar with Tom Hardy before. I'd heard of him but had never seen him in anything. But he's mesmerising. It's not really his looks, although he is very very good looking, but it's just something else. Something more than being good looking.

Naturally I had a quick search of Google images and was rather taken aback to see that a young Tom Hardy looks like something from a really terrible boy band. I wonder when he became all manly and attractive?

He is charismatic (or the role he is playing is that) which is hard to define. Also his eyes are mesmerising, I think the grimy face helps in that.

No one has mentioned the background music which was great. A bit menacing and dark.
Reminded me of the music from Wolf Hall.