The BEST episodes of Taboo season 3

Every episode of Taboo season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Taboo season 3!

Around the world there are people of different cultures who take actions and decisions that seem out of the ordinary to the average westerner. Considered taboo, these people and their stories are now being known.

Last Updated: 8/9/2024Network: National GeographicStatus: Ended
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#1 - Crime Scene

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/27/2005

Included: a medical examiner autopsies human corpses. Also: a professional crime-scene cleaner in the Baltimore/Washington area; the Body Farm in Knoxville, where trainees observe human decomposition.

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#2 - Gross Work

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/27/2005

Jobs involving death, disease and pestilence.

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#3 - Possessed

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/4/2004

"Possessed" profiles trance dancers in Indonesia; a witch-hunting exorcist in Nepal; and Pentecostal Christians in the Appalachian region of the U.S.

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#4 - Extreme Living

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/30/2004

Included: a priest in India and his wife who live with thousands of rats in a temple. Also: Christmas is celebrated in a Florida nudist resort; Filipinos sleep in graveyards and share their homes with corpses.

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#5 - Spirit Worlds

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/7/2004

A look at the spirit world, and how it's represented in different cultures. Included: The Hindu festival of Thaipusam in Malaysia, where participants pierce themselves with steel skewers and hooks. Also: an exorcism in India; Santeria rituals in Cuba.

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#6 - Extreme Cuisine

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/14/2004

Unusual cuisine includes live octopus; bat with sago grubs; boiled and pickled duck fetus in the egg; tarantula tempura with crackling cockroach.

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#7 - Extreme Childhood

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/21/2004

An 8-year-old trains as a boxer in Thailand; a 4-year-old becomes a virgin goddess in Nepal; a 13-year-old plants dynamite in Bolivian mines.

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#8 - Body Cutters

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/28/2004

Body modifications include metal chest implants, tongue splitting, scarification and suspension on fishing hooks.

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#9 - Body Art

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/4/2004

Tattooing around the world. Included: a tattoo festival in Thailand; a young girl undergoes a painful full facial tattoo in Papua New Guinea; criminal record tattoos in Russia.

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#10 - Blood Rites

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/8/2004

Initiation rites and religious ceremonies involving blood include Muslims who flail themselves and a ritual of male adulthood in New Guinea. Also: vampirism in America.

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#11 - Gross Grub

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/13/2004

A look at unusual eats around the world, including rotten fish heads; grilled guinea pig; and cheese with maggots.

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#12 - Rites of Manhood

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/20/2004

Tests of manhood, including a scarification ritual, are examined.

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#13 - Outcasts

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/14/2004

Social pariahs are observed in a variety of cultures, including a village in Ghana where all the residents are witches banished from their home villages; lepers in Bangalore; gypsies in Romania; and a man who has undergone extreme plastic surgery.

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#14 - Altered States

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/4/2004

The use of mind-altering drugs is examined.

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#15 - Gender Benders

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/18/2004

People who push gender boundaries are profiled, including transvestites and eunuchs.

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