If you’ve got a critically-acclaimed and strikingly unique TV series with a major movie star in the lead role – never mind one who was actively involved in its creation and development – then you’d expect a second season to arrive as quickly as possible. And yet, many were beginning to think that Tom Hardy’s Taboo would never return.
Hardy and his father Chips co-created the unsettling period-set thriller – with Ridley Scott as one of the executive producers – and it debuted to rave reviews across its eight-episode run in January and February of 2017. A month later, Taboo was officially renewed for a sophomore run, and yet here we are six years later with nothing to show for it.
The show’s stellar run on Netflix when it was added to the library only served to win it even more new fans, but longtime Hardy collaborator Steven Knight has finally offered a tenuous update in an interview with Radio Times, where he vaguely said “currently we are working on a second series of Taboo” when asked about the next projects on his slate.
It’s not much, but it’s a damn sight better than nothing, although the wait to see Hardy’s James Keziah Delaney continue wreaking his highly bespoke rampage of revenge and retribution through the grimy underbelly of London isn’t going to end anytime soon. At least it hasn’t been taken off the table, though, and Hardy’s person investment in the series means that it should be getting dragged across the finish line in one way or another.