‘They said you were dead,’ Zilpha had muttered when Delaney had reappeared. Then there was his incestuous relationship with his half-sister Zilpha, referred to in this episode as ‘love.’ ‘So ejaculate then we can talk business,’ Delaney (Hardy) simply muttered.Ĭast a spell on her: Now, she was resisting his entreaties to begin their affair again – apart from one occasion when she sat on his lap and snogged him (in a church) - so he resorted to spells ‘You know semen not ejaculated at the point of passion turns to poison and narrows the mind !’ the eccentric chemist Cholmondeley (Tom Hollander) objected when Delaney interrupted him having sex with an admirer over a desk. His face is permanently covered in blood, mud, or soot, and he sports a haircut, goatee, tribal tattoos, and designer scars that are unerringly ahead of their time.īack home after years of notorious adventures in Africa, Delaney is a voodoo version of Heathcliff or a Regency Kurtz from Heart Of Darkness - prone to staring at the ground during conversations and staring into the fire chanting American Indian incantations that have a distinctly Welsh accent. Hardy swaggers through Taboo, like Delaney, staggering under the weight of carrying everything on his shoulders. His epic, magnetic, performance as James Delaney is Taboo’s main attraction, even when if it does career from amazingly intense to brilliantly bonkers. A real winner: Judging by the ratings (6-7 million) and its popularity on I-Player, Taboo has tapped in to the zeitgeist
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