Taboo Season 2: Everything We Know

10. On The High Seas - The Season One Cliffhanger

“Taboo heads west and becomes a little bit more narcotic, more opium-affected..." said co-creator and writer Stephen Knight in 2019, speaking with the Radio Times.

The final episode of Taboo's eighth episode run ends with a seemingly victorious Delaney aboard a sloop, The Good Hope - bound not for the Americas like both the audience and Atticus suspect, but instead for Ponta Delgado in the Azores.

Having successfully evaded capture from both the Crown and The East India Trading Company with a shipload of gun powder, Delaney's intentions remain something of a mystery.

The Azores are an autonomous region of Portugal, and an archipelago in the mid-Atlantic, hundreds of miles to the west of Portugal and even further from the States, so what business does Delaney have there? Knight's comment regarding narcotics and opium suggest either a money making scheme or prior knowledge of a drug trade that Delaney plans to manipulate.

The Azores were a key trading post and The Good Hope is laden with gunpowder - munitions that could be used to disrupt the blockade of British ships discussed in the first episode of season one. Whatever Delaney is up to, rest assured there will be conflict on the high seas as he is now the target of some very powerful men with a great deal of money at stake, in fact, all the tea in China, according to Sir Stuart Strange...