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>\nBack 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>\nBut 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>\nBecause, as we know from life itself, there is the sacred<\/em> and there is the profane<\/em>.<\/p>\nHope you will enjoy as much as I did.<\/h3>\n