“Acts that offer a glimpse of transcendence to one group are condemned by another. We are pressured from every side - by peers, by church, by state - to accept the consensual definition of taboo; though so often what excites our imaginations most is the violation of taboo.”
“At a certain point power becomes very frightening, and to really begin to reconstruct civilization means to really act in a powerful way. And power is the thing that women have been taught is a real taboo.”
“The invasion of technique desacralizes the world in which man is called upon to live. For technique nothing is sacred, there is no mystery, no taboo.”
“The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.”
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2017 · 1 season · 8 ep · Drama · Mystery
TMDB 7.9/10 (1,506 votes)
Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.
Created by Chips Hardy, Steven Knight, Tom Hardy
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Chips HardyCreator
Steven KnightCreator
Tom HardyCreatorTom Hardyas James Keziah Delaney
David Haymanas Brace
Jonathan Pryceas Stuart Strange
Oona Chaplinas Zilpha GearyRichard Dixonas Pettifer
Leo Billas Wilton
Edward Hoggas Michael 'Godders' Godfrey
Jessie Buckleyas Lorna Bow
Stephen Grahamas AtticusCast & crew political lean — 4 of 12 researched: 1 left · 0 center · 0 right · 3 no public record. Based only on cited public statements, endorsements, and documented donations.
