Taboo

[Bungle73]

Where did you hear that Bungle?

Taboo writer Steven Knight plans at least two more series of the BBC1 drama

 

[Voley]

I hope there's more of it, too. Seems a pity to just leave it there. I'm sure Tom Hardy's well up for going 'hmgmmmrrff' for at least one more season.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I think the series reached its point of conclusion. It hardly ended on a cliffhangar. It was open, but not in a way that harmed it.

It did become a bit of a calamity of dastardly deeds and misadventures by the end.

I liked the action at the end.

 

[malatesta32]

He was one of the good guys in Inception.

never managed to get thru it. i got a free copy, tried 3 times and gave up.
hardy has got a massive neck as well.

 

[Bungle73]

never managed to get thru it. i got a free copy, tried 3 times and gave up.
hardy has got a massive neck as well.

That was one of the best films ever!

 

[Brainaddict]

I think the series reached its point of conclusion. It hardly ended on a cliffhangar. It was open, but not in a way that harmed it.

It did become a bit of a calamity of dastardly deeds and misadventures by the end.

I liked the action at the end.

Although the ending didn't make a *lot* of sense, in that once the king of the nation with the largest navy in the world has decided to arrest/kill you, making your escape by boat probably becomes a bad idea, and not likely to lead to an enduring freedom, particularly when you need to get through the English Channel before getting to open ocean. The king sends a few riders to Kent ports and the chances of you getting through the channel become quite low I would think.

This is probably treating too seriously a series that was quite silly, but it's a bit of a symptom of the problem with the series: whenever there was a choice between making sense and having fun, it had fun, but over the course of the whole series that was a whole lot of not making sense.

 

[wiskey]

I did feel sorry for Brace, who seemed like a believable and complex character caught up in a pantomime to some extent.

 

[A380]

Although the ending didn't make a *lot* of sense, in that once the king of the nation with the largest navy in the world has decided to arrest/kill you, making your escape by boat probably becomes a bad idea, and not likely to lead to an enduring freedom, particularly when you need to get through the English Channel before getting to open ocean. The king sends a few riders to Kent ports and the chances of you getting through the channel become quite low I would think.
This is probably treating too seriously a series that was quite silly, but it's a bit of a symptom of the problem with the series: whenever there was a choice between making sense and having fun, it had fun, but over the course of the whole series that was a whole lot of not making sense.

Pendent alert: Also, didn't the American flag at that time have the stars in a circle, a bit like the current EU one....

 

[moody]

Thing I find most impressive about Hardy is he's only 5ft10

"only"

 

[gosub]

"only"

from the work I've seen him in I would not have expected to be taller than him

 

[moody]

from the work I've seen him in I would not have expected to be taller than him

so, you estimate peoples height by what work they've done?

 

[gosub]

so, you estimate peoples height by what work they've done?

Bane, Bronson, the Kray twins, do not come across as 5ft 10

 

[Orang Utan]

Bane, Bronson, the Kray twins, do not come across as 5ft 10

eh? they just come across as well 'ard - are only tall people hard?

 

[Bungle73]

Christian Bale is taller than Ton Hardy at 6'. In TDKR they used special camera techniques to make Tom appear taller. 5' 10" isn't that short anyway. I'm about that and I don't consider myself short. It's about average. Although depending on where you get your info from he's either 5' 10" or 5' 9".

 

[Orang Utan]

Bruce Lee wasn't particularly tall and he was proper hard
And Joe Pesci is a tiddler but well tidy.

 

[Santino]

I know someone who did a wee next to Tom Hardy and he says he's tiny.

 

[Orang Utan]

I know someone who did a wee next to Tom Hardy and he says he's tiny.

did he see Tom's thumb?

 

[gosub]

http://www.theladbible.com/entertainment/film-and-tv-taboo-will-return-and-be-even-better-20170309

quite why this was in the Ladbible I don't know, (shared by half a dozen of my female facebook freinds)

 

[snadge]

I know someone who did a wee next to Tom Hardy and he says he's tiny.

You don't have to be huge to be a crazy cunt.

I'm well into this and to those that thought this was confusing, well it wasn't.

Awesome TV, may even buy a TV licence.

 

[DotCommunist]

binged through till episode 7 of this. Very enjoyable. I like that hardy is a bit hoodoo in this

 

[Bungle73]

According to Wikipedia the series has been renewed for another season.

 

[One dog]

Not seen it, but I think it refers to hats that had razor sharp peaks for slashing rivals. O have a vague recollection of this from A level Sociology

I believe the peaky blinders had razor blades concealed in the peaks of their caps, for slashing anyone who looked at them in a way they did not like.

 

[oneflewover]

Just binged this over three nights at 'work'

Superb, had a bit of everything. Loved the way he tidied up at the end.

 

[Chilli.s]

Didn't know that TH was the one that wandered off alone with Spud in Black Hawk Down.

 

[Siouxsie]

I watched RocknRolla again over the weekend...him and Gerard Butler dancing cracks me up

 

[NatM]

No, I'm out; too much of a slog for me, I usually love period/historical dramas and thought the 1st series of Peaky Blinders was great, but not convinced this is going anywhere that interesting.

I thought this as well Marshall!! But a few people (who's taste I respect) told me it was really really good so I gave it a second chance. Was hooked by the end of episode 2!