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Taboo
2017
· TV Show
· 60 min episodes
· 1 season
B
MEANRANK
80/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #152
- IMDb #144
- Google retired #91
- Rotten Tomatoes #150
- Metacritic #146
- RatingGraph #5
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #286
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #53
- Metacritic Critics #219
- Metacritic Audience #103
- Criticker #248
- Trakt #182
Every rating
52–94
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 52, highest is Google on 94.
See the TV shows the platforms disagree about most →Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London during the War of 1812 to rebuild his late father's shipping empire. However, both the government and his biggest competitor want his inheritance at any cost--even murder.
Details
- Created by
- Chips Hardy, Steven Knight, Tom Hardy
- Released
- 7 January 2017
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Episode length
- 60 min
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Episodes
- 8 across 1 season
- Awards
- 4 wins, 13 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (37) →
Awards & nominations
See all 17 →4 wins from 17 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| Primetime Emmy Awards 2017 | Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Supporting Role | Henry Badgett, Tracy McCreary, Angela Barson, Lucy Ainsworth-Taylor, Nic Birmingham, Simon Rowe, Alexander Kirichenko, Finlay Duncan, Colin Gorry | Nominee |
| Primetime Emmy Awards 2017 | Outstanding Music Composition for a Series | Max Richter | Nominee |
| 16th Visual Effects Society Awards 2018 | Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode | Henry Badgett, Tracy McCreary, Nic Birmingham, Simon Rowe, Colin Gorry for "Pilot" | Nominee |
| British Academy Television Craft Awards 2018 | Best Sound: Fiction | Sound Team | Nominee |
| British Academy Television Craft Awards 2018 | Best Costume Design | Joanna Eatwell | Nominee |
| British Academy Television Craft Awards 2018 | Best Make Up & Hair Design | Jan Archivald, Erika Ökvist, Audrey Doyle | Winner |
| British Academy Television Craft Awards 2018 | Best Original Music | Max Richter | Nominee |
| British Academy Television Craft Awards 2018 | Best Photography: Fiction | Mark Patten | Nominee |
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Primetime Emmy Awards
2 nominations
| Outstanding Music Composition for a Series | Max Richter | Nominee |
| Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Supporting Role | Henry Badgett, Tracy McCreary, Angela Barson, Lucy Ainsworth-Taylor, Nic Birmingham, Simon Rowe, Alexander Kirichenko, Finlay Duncan, Colin Gorry | Nominee |
Royal Television Society Craft & Design Awards
6 nominations, 3 won
| Costume Design - Drama | Joanna Eatwell | Winner |
| Make Up Design - Drama | Erika Okvist, Jan Archibald, Audrey Doyle | Winner |
| Sound - Drama | Sound Team | Winner |
| Design - Trails & Packaging | BBC Marketing Team | Nominee |
| Music - Original Title | Max Richter | Nominee |
| Production Design - Drama | Sonja Klaus | Nominee |
British Academy Television Craft Awards
6 nominations, 1 won
| Best Make Up & Hair Design | Jan Archivald, Erika Ökvist, Audrey Doyle | Winner |
| Best Costume Design | Joanna Eatwell | Nominee |
| Best Original Music | Max Richter | Nominee |
| Best Photography: Fiction | Mark Patten | Nominee |
| Best Sound: Fiction | Sound Team | Nominee |
| Best Special, Visual & Graphic Effects | Adam Glasman, Rob Pizzey | Nominee |
Satellite Awards
2 nominations
| Best Actor in a Drama / Genre Series | Tom Hardy | Nominee |
| Best Drama Series | Taboo | Nominee |
16th Visual Effects Society Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode | Henry Badgett, Tracy McCreary, Nic Birmingham, Simon Rowe, Colin Gorry for "Pilot" | Nominee |