Tom Hardy’s one-season crime series returns to charts nine years later

Few actors have balanced film and television as seamlessly as Tom Hardy. His latest crime series, MobLand, has kept viewers hooked on the streaming charts as anticipation builds for a second season. Beyond that recent hit, Hardy has another one-season crime series produced by Ridley Scott that has surged back into the streaming spotlight nine years after its debut.

Hardy and Scott first worked together on the 2001 war epic Black Hawk Down, and they reunited for Taboo, a dark period crime drama that premiered on the BBC in 2017. The series holds a 76% critics' score and a 91% audience rating, and centers on adventurer James Keziah Delaney, who returns from Africa in 1814 to inherit his late father's shipping business and confront enemies, conspiracy and bloodshed while trying to build an empire to rival the East India Company.

Taboo's season one finale aired in February 2017 and earned an Emmy nomination; the cast included Jessie Buckley, Oona Chaplin, Stephen Graham and Jonathan Pryce.

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