FX's Taboo writer Stephen Knight hints Tom Hardy starrer period drama might end with season 3

Following rave reviews from critics and audience alike, Tom Hardy starrer period drama Taboo got renewed for a second season in March. While the second series is expected to arrive in 2018, Taboo show writer Stephen Knight hinted the show would end with the third season.

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In a recent interview with the Huffington Post UK, Knight said the show will only run for three seasons. He also spilled the beans on the storyline of the upcoming season.

"I can feel the three acts. The first was 'the escape'. The second will be 'the journey' and the third will be 'the arrival', and that'll be it," Knight said. "I don't think the story will be what viewers are expecting, but hopefully they'll enjoy it."

Presumably, the second season of the BBC drama will revolve around how Tom Hardy's James Delaney escaped from London in 1814 following the death of his half-sister Zilpha Geary (Oona Chaplin) and left behind his step-mother Lorna Bow (Jessie Buckley).

Knight also explained the need of adding violence in the BBC drama set in the nineteenth century. He told Huff Post: "It's not simple violence. It's dealing with a time when violence had much more acceptance, plus this kind of drama is about extreme situations when people's behaviour is pushed beyond the borders of normal."

Stephen Knight, who is also the creator of Peaky Blinders, called the period drama "deconstructing the chaos". He also waxed on about Taboo's Edgar Dumbarton, played by Michael Kelly: "He's a surgeon, a spy AND a researcher in how to dye cotton. You wouldn't believe that person if he appeared in a script, and yet he was very real."

In another interaction with Den of Geek, Knight said he is planning an early 2018 shooting schedule. "I would say we would hope to be shooting it – I don't know whether this is supposed to be secret or not – early next year."

Most probably the second season of Taboo will air on the BBC and FX at the end of 2018.