Here he comes, wearing an Engineered Garments spring/summer 2013 shirt (no pants). There he goes, uttering inscrutable mysticism. Ridiculously so! No matter what else is going on with the knotty, 19th-century corporate-thriller plot, or with the thinly drawn supporting cast, Tom Hardy is stalking through it like a metronome with a world-class deadlift regimen. “No, no, there’s no use,” Delaney replies, staring at a spot somewhere by Chichester’s ear. “Perhaps I should come back during daylight,” he suggests. ![]() He is hammered, friends, and that’s the least of his troubles. Chichester asks questions and flings (true, damning) accusations at Delaney. Delaney stares into the distance, and asks him to prove that he’s not one of the ghosts he’s been seeing. George Chichester (Lucian Msamati), investigating the sinking of an East India Company slave ship (and Delaney’s culpability in the matter), shows up at the door. He’s a mess, even more than is standard for Taboo. Tom Hardy’s James Keziah Delaney, hours removed from the realization he may have murdered and disemboweled a child, is at home, drinking his guilt. It also explains why they were extremely wrong. It’s a moment that involves what everybody else seemed to hate about Taboo, too. ![]() But before we talk about the finale, I’d like to spend a minute talking about a moment from the previous episode, because it gets across the self-awareness hiding beneath Taboo’s veneration of the manly and disgusting. More of the show’s rogues’ gallery of supporting characters got to play some of the more tiresome elements - the talk of Darkest Africa, the incest - were dropped. ![]() The finale was loud and gross and wonderful in all the ways I’ve come to expect and love from this show, but it was slightly different, too: faster-paced than the seven hours that came before it. Taboo concluded its first season Tuesday.
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