7 torturous questions we have after Taboo episode 7

After weeks of mystery, murder and muttering we’re finally in the home stretch of period drama Taboo, with a whole heap of James Delaney’s secrets revealed and some no-doubt explosive revelations to come in the remaining episode this series has to air. Still, this penultimate torture-filled instalment still might have left a few heads scratching, so with that in mind we’ve continued our weekly tradition of querying, quizzing and overall questioning the main points of what we saw in the latest instalment, with a mind to discovering what we can expect for the series finale.

Meet the cast of Taboo

BBC1 has a dark treat in store for grim January nights: new series Taboo, starring Tom Hardy and directed by the creator of Peaky Blinders Stephen Knight. James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 following the death of his father.

Taboo Review

Is James Delaney in league with Satan? Maybe, but that’s not a question Taboo is interested in exploring any time soon. The fourth episode of Taboo put politics front and center: politics between Delaney and his late father’s wife Lorna, politics with Delaney trying to stay one step ahead of the East India Company, and politics with assembling the League of the Damned.

11 burning questions we have after Taboo episode 2

If anything, episode two of BBC period drama Taboo was even more confusing than the first , with Tom Hardy’s mysterious adventurer James Delaney offering hints about his past, uncovering secret relatives and searching for assassins through the shadowy streets of 19th-century London. Eagled-eared viewers may have noticed that Taboo’s theme song was different this week, with the plink-plonk style of episode 1 replaced by a strings arrangement.

13 burning questions we have after the first episode of Taboo

Tom Hardy, Ridley Scott and Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s atmospheric new drama Taboo began tonight, and amongst all the period flair, brutal surgery and scenes of Hardy growling at all and sundry several mysteries were budded that will no doubt entrance viewers over the next eight weeks. And of course, said viewers include us here at RadioTimes.com, so we’ve put together our thoughts on the very biggest questions lurking around after the end of the first episode as well as a few answers that we’ve managed to find out.

Murder and madness, incest, slavery, and witchcrafta It wasn’t…

Murder and madness, incest, slavery, and witchcrafta It wasn’t just the presence of Tom Hardy that made Taboo a dark, disturbing, break with tradition, by Jim Shelley Taboo lived up its name and proved nothing is sacred – not even the most comforting conventions of that great British tradition: Saturday night television. The legions of caterwauling karaoke contestants had been silenced and there was not a Doctor or Dalek in sight.

Taboo Series Premiere Review

Taboo, the new Steven Knight mini-series debuting on BBC One and FX , is gorgeously constructed and well acted, though its narrative is often intentionally inscrutable. Starring Tom Hardy and created by Knight, Hardy, and his father Chips Hardy, Taboo tells the story of Englishman James Delaney, whose father’s death spurs him to return to London from Africa after being thought dead for more than a decade.