It’s still in production and won’t be out until at least 2017, but we do know one thing about Ridley Scott’s Taboo: it has some excellent headgear.
FX just released the first trailer for the director’s foray into television, an eight-episode miniseries co-produced with BBC1. Per the FX norm, it looks violent, brooding, and full of untrustworthy types, but what about the specifics? Here’s the synopsis:
Set in 1814, Taboo follows James Keziah Delaney, a man who has been to the ends of the earth and comes back irrevocably changed. Believed to be long dead, he returns home to London from Africa to inherit what is left of his father’s shipping empire and rebuild a life for himself. But his father’s legacy is a poisoned chalice, and with enemies lurking in every dark corner, James must navigate increasingly complex territories to avoid his own death sentence. Encircled by conspiracy, murder, and betrayal, a dark family mystery unfolds in a combustible tale of love and treachery.
Sounds exciting! But we’re still most excited about that hat. Watch the full trailer below, and keep your eyes peeled for Jonathan “High Sparrow” Pryce: