Taboo Trailer Release.


  

Three days ago the BBC uploaded the trailer for Taboo on their YouTube channel and we are not disappointed; although there is some mild disappointment that the trailer has been shown to us now when the show itself will not be aired on BBC One till 2017.

The show is based in the year 1814 around Tom Hardy’s character, James Delaney, who makes a return to London from Africa to inherit what his passed father has left behind of his shipping empire. Delaney was believed to have died and his father has created quite a reputation for himself, so the 8 part period drama is Delaney’s war with the evil, selfish, determined people lurking in the shadows around him.


My reaction to the trailer was a good one, but I have to admit my happiness and hope at this trailer and for the show is partially bias as I am a huge fan of both Hardy and Ridley Scott. However, I am an admirer and fanatic when it comes to Victorian London and by the trailer it looks like they have captured the era very well, making everything very gritty and dark to resemble the characteristics of a lot of the people and plot line. Let’s not forget to mention the fact that this is another project that Hardy and screenwriter Steven Knight have done together and with the success of Locke and Peaky Blinders, who are we to suggest that Taboo may not be on par or even above them?



It’s quite easy for me to say I have already fallen in love with the show as it seems like the sets and time have become as much a character as the cast and the cinematography is beautiful. The parts of the script in the advert are some of the best lines, very successful ones and you have to think if these are just the lines in the trailer, how great is the rest of the script? My favourite so far has to be Delaney’s remark on the description of the rich and secretive East India Company; ‘The leviathan of the sea, the beast with a million eyes and a million ears. Conquest, rape and plunder and I do know the evil that you do because I was once a part of it’.

Check out the trailer to understand the goose bump work of Tom Hardy who brings an insane life to a period drama and reminds us that he is so talented. The trailer itself also reminds us that Knight is a unique and valuable writer and that Ridley Scott knows what to be a part of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7MW0fST2as


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