Company representative Benjamin Wilton finds Delaney at the dock and passes on a message from Sir Stuart that it is now war between them.

Delaney is visited by Chichester, who accuses him of complicity in sinking the slave ship but offers immunity if he will indict the East India Company. On review aggregator Metacritic, the series has a score of 67 out of 100 based on 32 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Taboo was created by Steven Knight, Tom Hardy and his father, Edward "Chips" Hardy, and is based on a story written by Tom and Chips Hardy. Tirthankar Roy, an economic historian at the London School of Economics, argued that it gave an excessively negative view of the East India Company. Naomi seduces her uncle/father and has sex with him, while Robin develops a yearning for her father.Lorna and Atticus also rescue Helga, telling her that Delaney was framed by the East India Company for Winter's murder.

The eight-episode series was created by Steven Knight, Tom Hardy, and his father, Chips Hardy, based on a story written by Tom and Chips Hardy. Zilpha murders Thorne, and Delaney has Dumbarton remove the corpse, which is later buried in a Catholic funeral. The Prince Regent decides to make matters difficult for the Company and sends George Chichester, a lawyer for the Sons of Africa, to investigate the sinking of the Influence, the slave ship that has been haunting Delaney's memories and on which 280 people died. Delaney kills Ibbotson, cutting out his tongue and leaving his body in the confessional for the horrified priest to discover.

About to be raped by Coop, she is rescued when the East India Company intervene, having been tipped off by Delaney about the duke's threat to Lorna. In November 2021, Knight confirmed that six of season two's eight planned episodes had been written, and the start of filming is contingent upon Hardy's schedule. Meanwhile, Brace tells Delaney that his mother was confined to Bedlam lunatic asylum after she attempted to drown him as a baby, and that his father had saved his life.

Taboo premiered on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 7 January 2017, and on FX in the United States on 10 January 2017. Delaney settles business with Dumbarton, revealed to be a double agent for the Company, on behalf of the Americans.

After a long protracted battle, they escape on the ship Strange has arranged for them, at the cost of Helga's life. The series has received generally favourable reviews, with critics praising Hardy's performance, the aesthetic and the slow burn aspect. When Thorne's shot at Delaney's chest proves to have been sabotaged, Delaney fires at the second, Mr. Michael Godfrey is blackmailed by Delaney to provide secrets from the East India Company's meetings.

Nick Robins, author of The Corporation That Changed the World, added that the organisation had made a positive contribution, but that by the time it was dissolved it had long "outlived its usefulness". Farmer Ibbotson makes his confession to the local Catholic priest, and the priest reveals the location of Delaney's gunpowder factory to the Company. This 6000~ word short story contains graphic language and depictions of sex including taboo daddy/daughter themes, rough sex, spankings, multiple partners, unprotected sex, exhibitionism, fisting, breeding, forced sex, and a girl who gets more than she bargained for in the back of a barn.

Lorna has followed Delaney's instructions and brought him his father's trunk; he finds the treaty that proves Nootka Sound was bought from the natives, rather than taken by force.