photo: ?FX / Courtesy: Everett Collection Taboo - 28 Jan 2017] ‘A Thousand Blows hopefully making up for that #Taboo second series we’re never going to get?’ suggested Victoria Isherwood on X, while Omar Abubakar promised it was a show ‘with no boring episodes from start to finish’.
Co-created by Knight, Hollywood actor Tom Hardy – who stars in the series – and his father, Edward ‘Chips’ Hardy, Taboo first aired in 2017, exploring the dark side of early 19th-century London, particularly in relation to the dubious operations of the East India Company.
photo: ?FX / Courtesy: Everett Collection Taboo - 14 Jan 2017] Hardy plays James Keziah Delaney, believed dead, who returns to England after 12 years in Africa, following the death of his father and the approaching end of Great Britain’s 1812 war with the United States.
Fans of Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s latest TV triumph, period boxing drama A Thousand Blows, have another treat in store if they’ve already binged the acclaimed new drama.
Oona Chaplin plays Zilpha Geary, Delaney’s half-sister and lover (see title of show again), and the cast also includes Jessie Buckley, Michael Kelly, Tom Hollander, Sir Jonathan Pryce, Jason Watkins, Lucian Msamati and Graham as Delaney’s underworld informant Atticus.
