Some things are hard to make heads or tails of at first, but they’re worth sticking with. Hot on the heels of the British phenomenon Peaky Blinders, director Steven Knight called upon his good pal Tom Hardy to star in another fascinating series, Taboo. By Hardy’s side was a sterling cast, including Jessie Buckley, Oona Chaplin, Mark Gatiss, and Stephen Graham. However, when the BBC revealed the show in 2017, it fared well but never quite reached the dizzying heights of the Shelby boys in Peakys. Nonetheless, Taboo was renewed, and it has only become more popular over years of critical reappraisal, but the follow-up never came.

Taboo is a historical drama interlaced with family secrets and supernatural elements, set in early 19th-century London and concerned with themes of colonial power, revenge, and identity. With its atmospheric storytelling and performances of the highest caliber, the series shows the struggles of a man reborn in a society rife with corruption and moral ambiguity. Now, a full eight years after it first aired, Hardy has revealed that the second series of Taboo is on the way. And we think it more than deserves the honor. It should be better than ever, not in spite of a decade having passed, but because of it.