Tom Hardy is one of those rare breeds of human who communicates on two entirely different levels: sometimes with words, but mainly in a series of moody grunts.
Taboo airs on Saturdays on BBC One, at 9.15pm.
Which pretty much provides Hardy – who conceived the show alongside his dad, Chips – with the ideal platform for the art of grunting; with a supercut by YouTube channel flypiefilms counting an impressive 72 grunts over the course of the show’s first five episodes.
Long believed to be dead himself, Delaney’s return isn’t exactly received with a warm welcome and he soon finds himself the target of a legion of different enemies, who all agree on one thing: the man is mad.