⚠️ – The relationship between James and Zilpha is central to the plot and includes taboo subject matter.
The primary antagonist is not a rival gangster, but the East India Company. In 2017, this was a timely allegory. The show portrays the Company as a proto-corporate state—a cabal of men in top hats who order massacres and monopolies from behind closed doors, concerned only with profit margins. Jonathan Pryce is magnificent as Stuart Strange, a man who projects the image of a respectable businessman while casually ordering assassinations and mass poisonings.
Here’s a helpful guide to the TV series Taboo , which premiered in 2017.
⚠️ – The relationship between James and Zilpha is central to the plot and includes taboo subject matter.
The primary antagonist is not a rival gangster, but the East India Company. In 2017, this was a timely allegory. The show portrays the Company as a proto-corporate state—a cabal of men in top hats who order massacres and monopolies from behind closed doors, concerned only with profit margins. Jonathan Pryce is magnificent as Stuart Strange, a man who projects the image of a respectable businessman while casually ordering assassinations and mass poisonings.
Here’s a helpful guide to the TV series Taboo , which premiered in 2017.