{"id":1011,"date":"2026-04-01T17:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2026-04-01T17:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:30:20","slug":"taboo-tom-hardys-best-historical-tv-crime-thriller-as-a-lead-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1011","title":{"rendered":"Taboo: Tom Hardy&#8217;s Best Historical TV Crime Thriller As A Lead Actor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Hardy\u2019s <em>Peaky Blinders<\/em> movie cameo might have been cut before its release, but the Birmingham-based gangster franchise isn\u2019t the only historical crime thriller written by Steven Knight in which the actor has played a starring role. It\u2019s now nine years since Hardy last played wayward adventurer James Delaney in <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/db\/tv-show\/taboo\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Taboo<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, but the show remains as fresh as ever.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Hardy\u2019s Peaky Blinders movie cameo might have been cut before its release, but the Birmingham-based gangster franchise isn\u2019t the only historical crime thriller written by Steven Knight in which the actor has played a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}