4/7/2023 0 Comments Tom hardy nootka sound![]() ![]() I call dibsĪlthough soap had been around for millennia, it was still heavily taxed in 1814 as a luxury item. I do like that some of them are fighting back. I think the women are being treated as women were at that time. Andrew Scott last week, and Toby Jones as well.īut I’m a huge fan of Stephen Knight’s other series, “Peaky Blinders,” so I was ready for heightened reality and a lot of violence. I keep squeeing when someone new turns up. At least this series made me look that bit up! There was a treaty trying to settle the matter in 1819, and it had a direct effect on the settling of the border between Canada and the USA. A crisis occurred there in the 1780s between Britain and Spain, who both claimed sovreignty and the right to claim it. And Nootka Sound is historically important. The EIC was a bit wild, the Empire without any limitations, and Jonathan Pryce is enjoying the hell out of his part. Maybe they have different TV standards or something, I don’t know. it’s more chiaroscuro, but we can see fine. We’re watching in the UK, and we don’t have any problem with the darkness. But at least it’s entertaining tosh, so far :) The EIC wasn’t anything like portrayed, the Nootka Sound stuff is beyond silly, and the notion that Tom Hardy’s mother was a First Nations woman isn’t really working for me. There was probably grime and definitely poverty, and it’s good to see the Mudlarks and dock workers rather than a bunch of pretty ladies wearing artfully draped white dresses. The mother’s costume in flashback looks less First Nations and more “This is what Etsy puked up when I put ‘black feathery’ in the search bar.” She rarely seems to take action on her own and when you’ve got the other female characters being resourceful and smart it’s painfully obvious that she’s not. I think Zilpha annoys me because she’s so passive. The Regency costumes on the women look pretty good to me – the party scene with the woman cross dressed as Lord Byron in full Turkish regalia was brilliant, and I will admit to a squee at the Regency corset. Pro: This show is part of the recent trend to really depict people of color as existing shoulder-to-shoulder with whites in British history, which is great plus there (so far) is at least one minor, speaking-role character who is of mixed race. I’m always happy when any historical show remembers that not only did people of color exist, but that racism and colonialism were huge portions of Western life for centuries. With that out of the way, my top 5 reasons I’m conflicted about Taboo:ĥ. part of his inheritance is a disputed piece of territory around Vancouver (in what will be Canada) during the war of 1812, and three powerful entities (the East India Company, the British government, and the American government) are willing to be ruthless to get it. Delaney is semi-crazy from his years abroad, and 2. Everyone thought he was dead, including his half-sister, but he’s back to inherit. The basic premise is that it’s 1814 and James Delaney (Hardy) has just returned from 14 years adventuring abroad - first with the East India Company, then in Africa - at the death of his merchant father. Taboo (2017) is a TV drama series developed by and starring (my boyfriend) Tom Hardy, now airing on F/X in the US and BBC in the UK. ![]()
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