Tom Hollander, also known from Pirates (as Cutler Beckett, the main East India Company villain of movies 2 and 3) steals every scene he's in, bringing some much needed levity to the show. Jonathan Pryce, veteran actor who you might know from the early Pirates of the Caribbean films (Elizabeth's father) is a little typecasted here, playing the role of the head of the East India Company but he does seem to have enormous fun doing so. You'd almost say it wasn't something out of the ordinary. Put it on a hulking, muscular, broad-shouldered and scowling Tom Hardy though and there is an intimidating effect, I'll give it that. There's no reason to dwell on it except that it's trendy to ascribe to any sort of meme zeitgeist in a weak and sad effort to broker a few laughs. It isn't made from human skin and doesn't even cast an enormous shadow. You know, just like one of those it was fashionable to wear in london society at the time. He is drunk or delirious most of the time, doesn't seem to eat or sleep, he also seems to have special shamanistic powers and occasionaly suffers from alcohol or madness-fuelled hallucinations in which a painted crow lady cackles madly at the screen. I found it engaging and yet occasionally unintentionally hilarious. He's an odd man, scowling and mumbling and grunting his way through conversations, which can be very hit and miss for most viewers. Tom Hardy as James Keziah Delaney is incredibly intense an unblinking and piercing stare, ritualistic tattoos and a cloak-whipping gait throught the grimy streets of London set to some catchy theme music. It is the hinge on which the trade between America and China turns.Īt odds with his halfsister and her bullying drunk of a husband, The East India Trading Company and the King himself, James Delaney, though his motives are vague and his end goal in doubt, will have to play a shadowy game of manipulation using violence and deception to stay alive. Key in the inheritance, however, is the deed to a tiny strip of land on America's west coast, Nootka Sound on the island of Vancouver. He returns to London at the time of his father's death and becomes the sole inheritor of his father's mansion and little remaining wealth. An enigmatic man of hidden wealth and dark secrets, surrounded by rumors and whispers of terrible violence and depravity from his stay in Africa James Keziah Delaney. As the war between the British Empire and the United States (secretly) nears its end a man long thought dead returns home to Brittain.
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