Starring: Tom Hardy, Jessie Buckley, Stephen Graham, David Hayman
Created by: Steven Knight, Tom Hardy, Chips Hardy
Genre: Historical Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Network: FX / BBC One
Release Date: 2025

⚓ “We are Americans now… But our war is far from over.”

After years of agonizing silence, the long-awaited second season of Taboo returns — darker, bolder, and even more brutal than before. Tom Hardy reprises his iconic role as James Keziah Delaney, the enigmatic, scarred antihero whose past is soaked in blood, secrets, and vengeance.

Set in 1816, just months after the escape from British soil, Taboo Season 2 charts Delaney’s journey to the New World, where new enemies await, and old allegiances are tested to their breaking point.

🧭 PLOT SYNOPSIS

Now on the shores of America, James Delaney and his band of outlaws aim to rebuild their secretive shipping company under the banner of the mysterious League of the Damned. But their passage to freedom is anything but safe.

Haunted by visions, betrayal, and the weight of his family’s sins, Delaney must navigate the deadly politics of post-war America, where new colonial empires rise, and treacherous deals with Native tribes, the U.S. government, and the hidden world of voodoo and mysticism pull him deeper into madness.

All while the British Crown — and the vengeful East India Company — want him dead at any cost.

🩸 KEY THEMES

• Revenge Reignited: Delaney is no longer just a man with a vendetta — he’s building a new empire with blood and iron.

• Mysticism & Madness: Season 2 dives deeper into Delaney’s spiritual connection to the dead, and the darker forces guiding him.

• Power Games: Expect more twisted alliances, backroom politics, and shocking betrayals, both across the ocean and within Delaney’s inner circle.

🧨 CAST HIGHLIGHTS

• Tom Hardy as James Delaney – Ruthless, haunted, and hellbent on reshaping the world in his image.

• Jessie Buckley as Lorna Bow – Delaney’s complex ally, now more politically aware and dangerously ambitious.

• Stephen Graham as Atticus – Still loyal, still savage, and still cleaning up Delaney’s mess.

• New Cast (Rumored): Mahershala Ali, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Ciarán Hinds may join the expanding international drama.

🗝️ WHAT TO EXPECT

• Dense storytelling rich with historical references and occult undercurrents.

• Intense, whispered monologues soaked in menace and grit.

• Naval battles, blood oaths, and an America that’s just as corrupt as the empire Delaney escaped.

• Flashbacks exploring his mother’s tribe and the spiritual origins of his darkness.

📜 TRAILER TEASER MOMENTS (PREDICTED)

• James Delaney standing in a fog-covered forest, whispering “I have a use for pain.”

• A tomahawk being buried into a wooden table during a tense negotiation.

• Cannons firing at sea, ships ablaze.

• A woman in ceremonial paint saying, “Your spirit is divided, and death knows it.”

• A close-up of Delaney’s eyes — cold, calculating, alive.

⚔️ “I am not beholden to kings or ghosts. Only to truth — and I will carve it into their flesh.”

The return of Taboo is not just a continuation — it’s a resurrection. Expect no mercy, no compromise, and no peace. Only the promise of reckoning from a man the world failed to bury.

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