"Taboo" is very stylish, has gritty take on its period, interesting, mysterious character played well by Tom Hardy, promising plot that hooks you from the first episode... and then wastes it over the next episodes by just going over the same things, revealing little new, contriving its schemes and characters to stretch it to more TV time.
Honestly I don't mind the general plotline of the episodes, but they feel so stretched and things happen so slowly - creators could've put much more in each episode to keep it interesting and varying. Instead we get repeating scenes that have been already covered in previous episodes, plot progressing too slow and always aiming to finish in some fruitless cliffhanger, because you already know how it will end. Characters seem to be left out waiting in rooms for Tom Hardy to brood around town, do his thing at his own time, and just interact with them when it's covenient.
Ultimately it's a series that starts interesting and with a lot of exotic elements to Victorian period, but doesn't progress its promises and is content to keep its cool style, but drift in the swamp of much more mediocre series instead.
Honestly I don't mind the general plotline of the episodes, but they feel so stretched and things happen so slowly - creators could've put much more in each episode to keep it interesting and varying. Instead we get repeating scenes that have been already covered in previous episodes, plot progressing too slow and always aiming to finish in some fruitless cliffhanger, because you already know how it will end. Characters seem to be left out waiting in rooms for Tom Hardy to brood around town, do his thing at his own time, and just interact with them when it's covenient.
Ultimately it's a series that starts interesting and with a lot of exotic elements to Victorian period, but doesn't progress its promises and is content to keep its cool style, but drift in the swamp of much more mediocre series instead.