Category: Taboo FX

Taboo FX Episode 5 Review It’s our favorite episode yet! If you haven’t watched “Taboo” episode 5, do it NOW. Then join us for a lightning-round discussion of James Delaney’s plans for gunpowder, Brace’s hatred of Horace’s trunk, James’ duel with Thorne and Zilpha losing her religion.Think you have Carlsbad...

Taboo FX Episode 4 Theories In this week’s River Rants, “Taboo” fans theorize on James Keziah Delaney’s secret motives, teach us about what submissives like from their dominants, and speculate on what happened to Anna Delaney. “Taboo” viewers also wrote about the blood bond between Horace, Zilpha, Anna and James...

Taboo FX Episode 4 “Taboo”Episode 4 brought us remote rape, a pig costume, fecal feasting, a disemboweled giant, a psychic horse and a fellatio heist. And then it got weird. Let’s review the Crown’s plot against Lorna Bow, James’ plan to make gunpowder, Countess Musgrove’s ball, Carlsbad’s identity, Thorne’s duel...

Taboo FX Episode 3 Theories After last week’s debut episode of River Rants, the floodgates opened and a heavy flow of “Taboo” viewer mail overflowed our inbox. Scotland Yard was not yet around in 1814, but that didn’t stop #ShatNation from trying to solve the puzzle that is Tom Hardy’s...

Taboo FX Episode 3 Taboo just threw us all for a loop. Just when we thought we had it figured out, James Keziah Delaney’s mother bursts into the narrative, then more hallucinations, then he makes out with his sister, Zilpha. Wanna talk about the fireplace scene, Lorna Bow’s abduction or...

Taboo FX Episode 2 Theories You wanted a “Taboo” viewer mail show, well now you’ve got it. Catch this debut episode of River Rants, a weekly supplement to the Taboo FX podcast. Hear more about James Keziah Delaney’s diamonds, Godfrey the scribe’s covert activities, Zilpha’s incestuous allure, Tom Hardy’s sexy...

Taboo FX Episode 2 “Taboo” is another victory for the BBC and FX, based on debut ratings. Let’s review the new characters and examine James Keziah Delaney’s motives in paying his father’s debts and standing a little too close to his sister, Zilpha. American fans fire your guns in celebration...

Taboo FX Episode 1 Shovels and Keys Taboo FX Episode 1, “Shovels and Keys”, exploded onto our screens with murder, nightmare, necromancy, prostitution and testicular threats. We knew Tom Hardy would be a beastly, brooding, mysterious James Keziah Delaney, but we didn’t know “Taboo” would be something rare on FX:...