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Critic Consensus: After a sluggish start, Taboo takes hold as a mysterious, dark, and often brutal period drama with plenty of promise as a series -- most notably evident in Tom Hardy's exceptionally watchable performance.
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as James Keziah Delaney
as Dumbarton
as Stuart Strange
as Zilpha Geary
as Brace
as Lorna Bow
as Thorne Geary
as Godfrey
as Wilton
as Ibbotson
as Pettifer
as Solomon Coop
as Thoyt
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If you like your historical fiction grim and your cobblestones dirt-caked, if you don't mind looking into some of humanity's bleaker facets, this one's for you.
Hardy may want to mix in a romantic comedy sometime soon, if only for his own sanity. But for now, he's got demons to work out and it's an exorcism worth watching.
Hardy's great - as always - but the story at times can be as turgid as the Thames in winter.
Hardy, always an admirably committed actor, has the magnetism to elevate even the silliest moments, making this an intriguing, if sometimes oppressively moody trip into a sinister underworld.
Three episodes deep, there's an appetite for more, but not a ravenous one.
Taboo's strength is that, despite borrowing from westerns, gangster flicks and even Dickens, it still manages to feel utterly original.
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