Taboo Episode 6 [Review]

Hey guys, welcome back to the channel, and today we will be reviewing Taboo episode 6. So finally, guys, uh, we're kind of starting to get the wrap-ups to the end of the season. Uh, there are only 8 episodes, uh, in the series, and so we only have 2 remaining. But, uh, as I was saying, guys, Taboo is, um, has become one of my favorite shows. And in this week's episode, you know, we actually got to see, uh, Zilpha deal with the abuse she's gotten from her husband Thorn. Um, and we also get some, um, reveals regarding James and his, um, his mom. Um, so with James, um, his butler, you know, or his manservant, I can't quite remember his name, but he finally lets, um, James onto the revelation. Uh, his mom, uh, wasn't the woman he thought Nor was his father, that his mom actually tried to drown him as an infant, and, um, the father saved his life, um, you know, had her, uh, uh, checked into an insane asylum. And, you know, James, uh, not quite trusting the uh, his butler, he actually starts to use some of his, I guess, his magic enchantments and spells and different things like that. And so he finds a pool of water, and he's using this water to try to channel back to the incident, as I believe he's been having flashbacks of it, you know, ever since, uh, he was a child. But, um, you know, it does— from the direction the show takes us in, seems to, uh, you know, he seems to come to the realization that it may very well be true that his mom tried to kill him. Uh, we also get this interesting scene, uh, with Zilpha and James's stepmom. and I can't remember her name either. So, um, but, um, the stepmom, she basically, uh, is looking for James. James is, uh, finishing up this, uh, situation with the gunpowder and trying to get it all, uh, sent to the Americans, keeping it— trying to keep it stable. And, um, so she's looking for James. They're concerned about him. He's been missing for like 3 days now. So she goes to Zilpha, his sister, in order to try to find out if she may have known where he's at. Uh, Zilpha, along with her husband— you know, Zilpha kind of has a strange look on her face, and her husband, uh, you know Uh, they're kind of keeping this united front, um, you know, as to say they don't know where James is and they're not concerned about James, that she needs to leave. And the stepmom notices that Zilpha's been abused. She has, uh, all types of bruises on her face, and, um, you know, she's basically showing her, uh, displeasure, you know, for Zilpha's abuse by her husband because she's pretty much figured out that Zilpha's husband Thorn is abusing her because of all of the things that have been happening since James has returned back home. And so they ask her to leave, you know, that they don't know where James is, that she needs to go, you know, basically Zilpha goes back into her room after that. You know, Thorne's trying to kind of get back on good terms with her. He's letting her know that he's got a newly appointment to go do law someplace else. I believe it's like Australia or South Africa. Zilpha's letting them know that that place is too hot, that she's not— that she doesn't want to go, and she's, um, in private life she doesn't associate or she doesn't have a relationship, um, you know, really anymore with Thorn, her husband. But to the public, she kind of still presents a good face about the relationship and things like that. And so what's interesting, what happens after that scene is that, uh, later that evening, Zilpha returns to the bedroom. She climbs on top of her husband And, you know, she pulls out the needle she had from last week that she was kind of talking to herself with about this needle. And, you know, Thorn awakens and he's trying to stop her from stabbing him with the needle. She stabs him in his lower abdomen. She seems to know exactly where to stab him, killing Thorn. So Thorn's storyline, you know, pretty much ends at this point, you know. Him being to Zilpha, he finally meets his end. As a show watchers, I'm sure we're glad to see happen, you know. But afterwards, you know, we get this very strange scene where Zilpha runs to James's house and she runs in and you're kind of going like, okay, what's going on? You know, what is she running to James to get some kind of help? You know, to, you know, to confess what she did. And she runs in the house and she is explaining what she did, but she then goes, I did exactly what you told me, you know. And he's dead. And, you know, James seems a little bit, uh, confused a little bit by it. Like, he kind of, uh, you know, like, uh, you know, surprised, you know, that this wasn't supposed to happen. But at the same time, she keeps telling him that, you told me, you told me. So as I think back on this, on last week's episode, um, you know, we did get this scene where Zilpha was having this conversation by herself, seemingly holding this long needle in her hand. And so it seems the suggestion is that Zilpha was communicating with James through some type of magic or enchantment because James wasn't in the room. So, uh, you know, so, uh, I guess the assumption is that magic and these spells that James is using is actually real in this show. And he simply tells her to go home, that he'll take care of everything, that she needs to leave. And, um, you know, we basically next get the funeral scene And in the, and in the funeral scene, James is, um, you know, basically digging Thorne's grave. And, you know, he's helping to bury Thorne. Um, and I don't know what they're saying the cause of death was, but, you know, I don't know if in this time— I don't, I don't know, they probably didn't do even do autopsies, or I'm not sure how it, how it worked. I'll have to check that out. But, uh, it seems like nobody's really asking any questions. James puts, uh, Bear's thorn in the ground. And then in the next scene, you know, we get him coming into the house with Zilpha and basically telling Zilpha, you know, hey, take off your clothes. They have this, um, you know, this, this, uh, it's all this sexual, uh, energy and passion and You know, they're just going at it. And then as they're going at it, you know, as James was doing his spells earlier and trying to figure out, you know, uh, if it was true that his mom killed them, I guess, through working this magic and voodoo and different stuff, um, you know, as he's having sex with Zilpha, he's kind of reliving when he was drowned by his mom. And as he comes to, he's strangling Zilpha the same way that his mom strangled him or tried to drown him underwater. And, uh, he's about to kill Zilpha. He, uh, he snaps out of it just before killing her and he rushes off. And it just seems that although all his ducks have been lining up in a row and everything is kind of, uh, seemingly going to plan, Um, James is kind of losing it with this thing about his mom and casting these various spells and different things like that. Uh, unfortunately, that's not James's only problem. Uh, I think at this point the East India Company understands that although they can't kill James, that they can make his situation horrible, his life very terrible. And so, uh, whilst on the docks where his ship is located, um, James gets a visit from a representative of the East India Company who informs James that, uh, we're here just to let you know now the gloves have come off. And you know, and that now they're going at him fully, uh, with everything they got, just short of killing him. Because again, they can't kill him because if they do Nuka Sound territory will pass to the Americans, and they can't allow that to happen. So, you know, they can't kill him, but they certainly make his life very, very miserable. So a few minutes later, as he's on the docks going to check on the ship, the entire ship explodes. And, you know, James is devastated by this. He really needed that ship, you know. Uh, you know, the East India Company's coming at him full power now. And, uh, you know, he's just getting drunk. He's going through a, uh, you know, a real bad hard time. And he's just, uh, you know, basically, uh, threatening everyone. And he actually does kill several of the people that betrayed him. He cuts out one of their hearts. Uh, he cuts out one of their tongues. Uh, I believe the priest, uh, He cuts out his tongue and he cuts out, uh, another guy's heart. And the thing is, the gentleman that he normally uses to, uh, help him with a lot of these plans that he needs to carry out, that seems kind of like his right-hand man to go through to do a lot of the underhanded things and thefts and, uh, various, uh, things he needs done, uh, this guy seemingly is always calm around James and in his presence, and he keeps his cool and plays everything off like he normally does. But as James walks out, you kind of see the truth behind him, that he's very much terrified and disgusted by the things that James does. He kind of just throws up, you know, as James is trying to pass him off this heart he's carved out of one of the people who betrayed them's chest. And, uh, you know, so we just get this very, uh, so, uh, you know, interesting situation with, with that. Uh, unfortunately, uh, things get even worse for James. You know, as I was saying earlier, everything had been working out for James. All his ducks had been lined up in a row. He always seemed to be a few steps ahead of the East India Company and the Crown. But, uh, you know, things are starting to go real bad for James. You know, he's getting drunk You know, he doesn't know what to do as he's lost his ship and he needs another ship. And his friend, the Black orphan who usually has these conversations with him, comes up to him whilst he's drunk and dealing with all these various things, and he lets her know, hey, I'm not fit to be around you at this time. Leave, go home. This is not a good time, uh, you know. So we cut to the next scene, and James, you know, seemingly is waking up from a night of drunkenness. And, um, as he, uh, gets up and looks down, he sees that the Orphan Winter has been killed, murdered, seemingly strangled in the same method that his mom strangled him, and that he kind of reenacted when he was about to strangle and kill Zilpha. And so, uh, you know, this week's episode to me kind of felt like a cliffhanger. Uh, it looks like they could have, you know, put this maybe at the, at the final episode, but we'll get 2 more episodes to kind of find out what's going on with James. What's happened? Did he really kill Winter, or is this just yet another, uh, setup of the East India Company maybe to set him up for murder? So he'd be, you know, labeled a criminal or done some type of crime, or maybe there's some way they can kind of strip him of his private property. So I don't know, we'll find out. Um, my only comments about this week's episode, um, um, I thought it was a, a pretty good episode. Um, there were some things that happened that I was kind of hoping would have went another way. Um, you know, the situation with how fast Zilpha seemed to be on board, um, with James, you know, after her husband— you know, after she killed her husband. It just seemed like she moved so quickly through that. And, um, so I don't— you know, um, normally I would have thought that this was all kind of in her to do this anyway, that this is something she wanted to do anyway. However, By them introducing the magic, magic into it and making us feel like the magic thing is real, um, you know, it was a little bit concerning that, uh, you know, that, uh, you know, is she then under the enchantment of the magic? Is that why she's doing that? Or is that what she wanted to do anyway? Uh, I don't know, but you know, I, I just think this show the, um, the, uh, the subject matter of it. It would have just been quite a really good show and interesting show without the introduction of the magic, without the introduction of the relationship between him and the sister. You know, I just think it's a very interesting, uh, time period in history where the show can carry itself, uh, just based on the information we have about the show, you know, happening around the War of 1812 and various things like that. I just thought it could have been a great show without those things. But, um, you know, anyway, the show took that direction. I still like the show, it's still one of my favorite shows. I just, uh, I just didn't like how the Zilpha things turned out. Uh, he and Zilpha, they seem kind of Uh, it's something weird going on with the relationship. Like, Zilpha kind of seems like she's in her own mindset, she has her own plan, and so does James. And they seem kind of disconnected, like they're working together and they're orbiting around each other, but it doesn't seem like they can— the situation they set it up as throughout the, uh, you know, the start of the show, like they were these, um, star-crossed lovers caught in this forbidden relationship. And So I thought they were kind of going that, but I don't know, it's just something— I'm sensing something different about where they want to take this relationship with these two. And also the stepmom keeps getting introduced into it, like some kind of way she's going to be caught up in the triangle. But anyway, guys, those are just my thoughts. Uh, you know, feel free to comment about how you feel about the magic introduction into the show being suggested that it's real. Do you think it was necessary? Do you like those elements? Um, again guys, thank you for— thanks for watching this week. Don't forget to like and subscribe, and, and until next time, take care.