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If you love history and (are in) love Tom Hardy, if you are into esotericism and crime, well, this things are not Taboo anymore.<\/h1>\n

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Let me state from the beginning, as if you wouldn’t noticed yet: no matter if it’s Hollywood, the Anglo-Saxon culture we are in, and especially movies, have all the actors from UK.<\/p>\n

And that’s it.<\/p>\n

Just take 10 of the most recent (good) films you’ve watched lately and you’ll see than more than 70% of the actors are from the United Kingdom (including Ireland, N. Ireland, Scotland, Wales etc).<\/p>\n

That goes for Game of Thrones<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(affiliate link), and basically all of what TV and cinema is today (2017).<\/p>\n

Not to mention any music here… nope, won’t go there.<\/p>\n

And that is because they are good. Brilliant, I might add.<\/h2>\n
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Taboo starring Tom Hardy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And this is what you might call a BBC (well, FX<\/strong>) 100% UK production starring the man of the hour<\/em> as I might say, Tom Hardy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As I did some reading about the series, more for being curios about what I’ve seen from the credits ob who is Edward<\/strong>\u00a0Chips<\/em> Hardy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It turns out that he finally got his dad who is a scriptwriter to write a role that he played.<\/p>\n

And apparently he put his on money on the productions (and the gossip<\/strong> <\/a>is he lost about 2 mil $). Well, might lost some money there but considering it’s a personal project, well, sometimes you must lose something to gain something else.<\/p>\n

Ridley Scott is on the credits too, and we will get back to him soon as a follow-up of Prometheus<\/a><\/strong> is about to be released this year.<\/p>\n

So there we go, we have what I call a stop from what you are doing and sit in front of the tv\/tablet\/computer<\/em>\u00a0for 8 episodes in the first season.<\/p>\n

Mr. Hardy is indeed a character that I follow with interest as he is what I said earlier, the man of the hour.<\/p>\n

He is out there for some time now, naming just co-starring Leonardo DiCaprio in Inarritu’s The Revenant\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>as he most famous Hollywood success.<\/p>\n

Add some more great characters portrayed by him, as to mention here Mad Max<\/strong><\/a>, Locke – were he’s the only one on the screen, and Alfie Solomon in Peaky Blinders<\/strong> just to name a few of he’s works worth watching.<\/p>\n

Did you noticed by the way that tom hardy he has three of four films starring alongside Gary Oldman<\/strong>?<\/h2>\n

Back to Taboo<\/strong> now; a TV series (mini I may say) PG almost 18+ (no nudity but bad language, at some extent not really necessary) set in the beginning of the previous two centuries (the 1800’s) in a London full of… well… like today probably.<\/p>\n

Back from the dead as almost everyone considered him be, the son attends the father’s funeral (discrete father-son parallel) and turns upside down a world that runs his own course.<\/p>\n

The Crown, the Company, Keziah (what a cool name) James Delaney and the fresh United States are 4 major entities in this universe.<\/p>\n

Keywords are: money, power, liberty, slavery, incest, traitor, Africa, Europe, Americas, magic.<\/p>\n

Nope, this are not the keywords I use for this blogpost, this are the keywords that, at an impersonal level could describe what the series is all about.<\/p>\n

I don’t like to go into details, because it’s hard not to spoil<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

But I do want to stay on it for the trouble of a few words about a subject that makes the story more interesting: shamanism.<\/p>\n

As he’s considered dead because no one heard from him for a couple of years, the main character (portrayed by mr. Hardy) didn’t returned a… christian.<\/p>\n

It’s a domain that I’m interested and researched about and I do appreciate how it all blends, two different worlds, visions and ways of seeing what is happening.<\/p>\n

Reminded me of Twin Peaks<\/strong> (which by the way it’s about to start again for the third season -after 20 years- in august).<\/p>\n

Because, as we know from life itself, there is the sacred<\/em> and there is the profane<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Hope you will enjoy as much as I did.<\/h3>\n