Taboo season 1, episode 1, Shovels and Keys is reviewed by Ben Mankiewicz (Turner Classic Movies) and Alonso Duralde (TheWrap and Linoleum Knife podcast). https://twitter.com/BenMank77 https://twitter.com/ADuralde In the series premiere, James Delaney returns to London to follow his father's legacy following a ten-year stint in Africa. Read more - https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/taboo/s01/e01 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.