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.
#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.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - Gross Work
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/27/2005
Jobs involving death, disease and pestilence.
Watch Now:Amazon#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.
Watch Now:Amazon#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.
Watch Now:Amazon#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.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#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.
Watch Now:Amazon#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.
Watch Now:Amazon#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.
Watch Now:Amazon#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.
#12 - Rites of Manhood
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/20/2004
Tests of manhood, including a scarification ritual, are examined.
Watch Now:Amazon#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.
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - Altered States
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/4/2004
The use of mind-altering drugs is examined.
Watch Now:Amazon#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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