Taboo

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Season 1
  • Network: FX , TNN
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 7, 2017
Season #: 2, 1
User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 328 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 292 out of 328
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 328
  3. Negative: 16 out of 328
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  1. Tomkin
    Jan 31, 2017
    2
    2017's first let down. Taboo may be extravaganza, but Tom Hardy is ridiculously self-absorbed og to obsessed being a cool icon instead of being a realistic and empathetic character. I mean, the way he walks.. yeezus!
  2. Msand
    Jan 24, 2017
    1
    Rarely have I seen a show less captivating. I tried hard to follow the plot but just found it confusing and meaningless. I could not even finish the first episode.
  3. Eoin_O_Connor
    Jan 22, 2017
    3
    Very one-dimensional from Tom Hardy. Jessie Buckley and Oona Chaplin do add something. Show is starting to wear a bit thin already. Weighing up the future time investment after the 3rd episode is never a good sign.
  4. hawkeye766
    Feb 8, 2017
    3
    Had so much potential, but Hardy's new drama just tries to be as disgusting as possible. The show is almost all rising action. You can't understand anything going on. The story is cheapened by sequences of despicable events. I cancelled my series recording after the one scene where James Dulaney magically rapes his sister with some sort of voodoo magic. WTF am I watching. This show is awful.
  5. thedaywalker
    Jan 16, 2017
    3
    Could not sit through half an episode of this, it simply bored me, slow paced, boring dialogue and no shine, nothing, not even one moment for me to at least smile
  6. jonnykemp
    Jan 11, 2017
    0
    A dark and interesting character played by Tom Hardy. Start off very slowly with good reveal. I very interested to see what this series turns into. @hereisjonnykemp
  7. Wanda65
    Jan 25, 2017
    0
    Taboo is a GREAT new show! Tom Hardy is at his sexiest! We love, love, love this show! My family is into the shows that replicate older times. Can't say enough about the story line. AWESOME!!! Please keep them coming.
  8. cunlhatjacky
    Aug 31, 2017
    0
    Despite an intriguing pilot due to a good rhythm and plot, the TV show reunites all the cliches that can exist about the 19 th century in England, the relations between men and women, the colonialist's history, in fact, it is a whole bunch of cliches. I watched the two first episodes, than I decided to stop, in a big part because of the end of the second episode.
    Even the cliches of the    Despite an intriguing pilot due to a good rhythm and plot, the TV show reunites all the cliches that can exist about the 19 th century in England, the relations between men and women, the colonialist's history, in fact, it is a whole bunch of cliches. I watched the two first episodes, than I decided to stop, in a big part because of the end of the second episode.
    Even the cliches of the title "Taboo" are reunited, as if the producers thought "damn it, we have to fill in the reason why we called it Taboo".
    Moreover, Tom Hardy has a way to child's face for his dark role. Nobody buys it, I don't buy it.    … Expand

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#18 Most Discussed TV Season of 2017
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#41 Most Shared TV Season of 2017

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Metascore
67

Generally favorable reviews - based on 32 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 32
  3. Negative: 1 out of 32
  1. Newark Star-Ledger
    Reviewed by: Vicki Hyman
    Jan 10, 2017
    83
    The metaphorical gloom and doom of Taboo is likewise dense and relentless but so enveloping you can't help but be sucked in.
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  2. Salon
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    Jan 10, 2017
    40
    Taboo seem to have aspired to explore a number of complex, uncomfortable issues in the three episodes made available to critics without concretely establishing a thesis about any of them. Provided the viewer isn’t utterly bored or bewildered by what she sees, the show thus far seems like it could go to interesting places. As to where that is exactly, who can say?
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  3. Los Angeles Daily News
    Reviewed by: Rob Lowman
    Jan 10, 2017
    70
    While it struts and frets and boasts some top-notch actors, I’m not sure it has anything in mind other than being weirdly entertaining.
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