The East India Company plot Delaney's murder. Delaney pays off Horace's numerous creditors, and makes contact with Dr Dumbarton. The reading of Horace's will concludes with the appearance of Lorna Bow, a London actress, who claims that she and Horace were married. Delaney discovers his father died from arsenic poisoning.ĭelaney sets about reclaiming his inheritance he buys a ship at auction, then begins to assemble his crew. The East India Company had an agreement to buy the land from Zilpha Geary, Delaney's half-sister, but Delaney knows the war is coming to an end, greatly increasing the value of the land, and scorns their offer.
The land, Nootka Sound, is in dispute between Great Britain and the United States, who are at war. Other than owning a small part of the west coast of North America, Horace has left nothing of value. James Delaney, believed dead, returns to London to attend the funeral of his father, Horace. In May 2022, Knight earmarked the end of 2023 as a potential filming start date. In November 2021, Knight confirmed that six of season two's eight planned episodes had been written, and the start of filming is contingent upon Hardy's schedule.
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Taboo was renewed for a second series in March 2017. The first series was directed by Kristoffer Nyholm and Anders Engström.
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Knight and Tom Hardy previously worked together in the 2013 film Locke and the TV series Peaky Blinders, which premiered in 2013. Taboo was created by Steven Knight, Tom Hardy and his father, Edward "Chips" Hardy, and is based on a story written by Tom and Chips Hardy.
Tom Hollander as George Cholmondeley, a chemist and scientist.Michael Kelly as Edgar Dumbarton, an American physician at St Bartholomew's Hospital and spy (season 1).Franka Potente as Helga von Hinten, a brothel madam (season 1).Edward Hogg as Michael Godfrey, minute taker with the East India Company.David Hayman as Brace, Horace Delaney's loyal servant.Jefferson Hall as Thorne Geary, Zilpha's husband and an insurance broker (season 1).Stephen Graham as Atticus, an underworld informant to Delaney.Oona Chaplin as Zilpha Geary (née Delaney), James Delaney's half-sister (season 1).Jessie Buckley as Lorna Delaney (née Bow), Horace's widow.
It aired on BBC One in the United Kingdom, on 7 January 2017 and on FX in the United States, on 10 January 2017.
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Taboo is a BBC television drama series produced by Scott Free London and Hardy Son & Baker.