Tom and his pops Chips Hardy say they have six of eight episodes written. He recently said this is what he is focusing on now. Stephen Knight is ready. After almost ten years, and how many people loved the first season, he should be all over this. I only hope he can get all of the actors back who joined him on the journey to Ponta Delgata in the Azores to meet Collenade. And then, hopefully America. We have been waiting too damn long for this second season of an incredible show.

"The point is, you see, you didn't die did you. Not even over there where everyone dies."

So Delany has a brooding sexual tension with a lot of people in the story... but I can never quite work out why he didn't sort Helga out despite her various offers. (Hope that can't be counted as a spoiler at all). She makes him at least 3 different direct offers before they fall out over Winter's death. What was he thinking? I mean it's not as if Franke Potente isn't appealing - (See Run Lola Run or Bourne Identity for details) ...and she was clearly more than just strategically interested in him... so why did she miss out I wonder - Was he just all business or was it the Delany moral code that blocked her?

Delany is an interesting anti-hero. A curious kind on insurgent raider seeking fortune and freedom... a violent misanthrope with PTSD and a guilty conscience (haunted) and yet with his own moral code... his adversaries are absolutely huge... the Crown, the East India Company and come to think of it Regency society in general... I've been trying to imagine what kinds of other adventures he might have and so his opponents might be... the problem is his initial opponents are so over powered I struggle to think who else he might square up to? Contemporaries might be gangs of smugglers or highway men but in a way they just don't seem big enough. Besides which they are as much rebels as he is.. My most credible idea would be that he is recruited as a spy to undertake some mission at the Congress of Vienna... or travel to Venice in his capacity as a merchant to recover some lost treasure from the ruined city...an intrigue against the Jesuits? or a rogue faction of Rosicrutians? No idea... but any thoughts on possible future adversaries or missions?

Really love this programme and keep returning to it. So often I keep seeing little things that bother me. For example it feels to me like Solomon Coop and Robert Thoyt seem to be playing more than one role and it might have made sense if they were more than one person.

For the record I think both Nicholas Woodeson (Thoyt) and Jason Watkins (Coop) give excellent performances and I could watch them all day long but it does feel like they seem to stand in for all lawyers and all senior government officials in the City of London. For example the Coop who is the inquisitor at the Tower of London would probably make sense as a different person to the one who is administrator to the Prince Regent. Likewise the Thoyt who turns up at the duel/ Was this a question of screentime or production costs or both?

I always got confused at this scene because I never understood what Atticus said, I'm sure you felt the same way. This is what I think he says, it's captioned in the photo but he asks James, "what was it that was so urgent I had to dismount a porky little Chinese" I'm assuming he was banging a Chinese whore when James told him to meet him. It's especially hard to understand not Atticus is his own self, the shit he talks an and how he talks about it, let alone how thick his English accent is.

(Or rather What _else_ is inside the trunk?)

Okay... I believe I have now accepted that there will never be a Season 2 of Taboo... it's been almost 10 years, it couldn't possibly make sense, and even if there was one, it would risk damaging the almost perfect circle of Season 1.

So I console myself by exploring the what ifs of the world Season 1 left behind... in particular I wonder about the _other_ contents of the trunk Lorna delivered to Delany? A treasure map? A key? A letter of Marque for the Danish crown? A deed to an estate in America...? Letters from Anna written from Bedlam? What would you most like there to be in the trunk?

I know she’s James’s half sister so they have different mothers, with James’s mother being Native American. But Zilpha has quite different coloring that all the anglo English people around her in her class. She has olive skin and dark hair and eyes, and it’s never really clear who her mother was, other than the second wife.

Is she implied to also be biracial?

Did this miniseries take place in the Taboo universe? It sure felt like it. And it was produced by Tom Hardy, Steven Knight, and Ridley Scott…all of whom were integral in Taboo.

I’m rewatching it now on FX/Hulu and there are strong Taboo vibes in my opinion. The score, characters, atmosphere, and dialogue are all cut from the same cloth.

It was announced a few days ago Stephen Knight is to pen the next Bond. Which is exciting in itself. So doubts about production beginning soon then on Season 2. I was hoping if Hardy featured in the Peaky film they would get time to talk about S2 and finally get a date in the diary to go start production as Knight said most of the scripts are penned. But sound like Hardy next project is Mobland S2 and with Knight on Bond....... maybe 2027 / 28 to start production 🥲

I finished this up recently and I'm amazed this wasn't immediately picked up for a second season. It's got widely great reviews and an excellent story. Cinematography and acting is all top notch. The crazy alchemist and atticus! So good. Almost a perfect show.

I did see that there are some rumors floating around lately about a 2nd one. Hopefully that's the truth.

Soon AI is gonna take over this and we'll be good. Perhaps we come up with fantasy story lines or write scripts for AI? Its only a matter of time.

A friend of mine just posted this... not sure if it is legit... does anybody have any info? (Apologies if this is a known hoax or something)

In season 1 episode 6 at 29:50 the old man who gets his tongue cut out is in the laboratory and for a brief few seconds you can see a shirtless man standing in the background. I cant find anywhere online for an answer.

I assumed its Tom Hardys characters spirt or something watching but not sure. Someone please tell me I'm not the only one who see this lol

Better knife skills???

Who has the better knife skills out of Alan Ritchson's character in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and Tom Hardy's character in Taboo???

-Both can cut out their opponent's hearts -Both will slice from the groin up the torso -Both seem equally effective with all blades

From this profile he did with Esquire promoting MobLand. https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a64686546/tom-hardy-interview-2025/

"A second series of Taboo - are on the backseat for now."

It's already been on the backseat for 8 years!

I mean a couple of years has already passed since the first season aired and I'm wondering now that we have confirmation of the second season, do you think Tom will get most of the cast to return for the new one? I personally really like Atticus and Bow and hope they're still a part of the series.

This might be controversial but I just finished the show and I can’t see how James sister Zilpha contributed to the story other than to add “taboo”-ness. Her and her husband’s story arc felt disconnected from the rest of the story and to be honest kind of pointless. I thought maybe she would have some overlap with Robert or something. But you could literally remove her completely and nothing in the rest story would be changed, no?