Starz' pirate epic, black Sails, returned for its second season. Our pirate historian TS Rhodes breaks down the premiere...
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How wonderful it is to lớn be back with Starz’ Black Sails, the well-researched, well-funded, và well-made và pirate series. I’m enjoying Black Sails even more after my run-in with another pirate series. You can really tell the difference when a network is committed to lớn backing something you know can be good. Unlike that “other pirate series,” Black Sails is setting us up for another enjoyable season.
Picking up this new season, there’s no cheap recap of “so you remember from last season…” Nope, if you need a reminder, the episodes are there, and you can watch them on the Starz website. And if you’ve missed anything, I’d advise you take a gander. It was all good stuff, & this season looks to lớn be even better.
Like last season, we start out with pirates attacking a merchant ship. Last year it was Flint, and he just wanted the money, though he faced stiff resistance. This season’s merchant captain is being more prudent. He gives up without a fight, sure that if he offers no violence, no violence will come to him. Sadly, Flint is the old guard of piracy. This year we’re introduced to lớn Ned Lowe, the new generation of pirates. Lowe, a take-off on a historical pirate, has been referred to lớn as a “murdering sociopath.” The odds are raised again in the violence department.
We pick up with our main characters, Flint và Silver, right where we left off. The pirate ship Walrus is beached on the Florida coast after a hurricane, & Spanish gold from the even-more-badly wrecked galleon Urca is scattered on the tropical sand. Another Spanish Galleon waits nearby, as her crew scrambles lớn regain the treasure.
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Captain Flint và John Sliver have to khuyến mãi with the fact that Flint’s nefarious doing with against his own crew are ousted, & the treasure is going to lớn be awfully hard to get. Flint’s plan to lớn take the Spanish warship instead is true to khung – audacious in the utmost. Silver, as usual at this point, is along for the ride. But we learn up front that he’s 100 percent committed khổng lồ Flint’s success now – though it is only because of luck và common interest. Silver likes khổng lồ gamble with his life, & he’s staking Flint for the next roll of the dice. I would too, even though the odds look overwhelming.
A cảnh báo here on the believability of all this. I’m on this gig as a Pirate Historian, và this year looks even better than last year. It may be a little more money, or a return khổng lồ existing sets, but a few things that have bothered me before have been cleaned up.
One of these is the fact that, in last season, the ships seemed to lớn be almost empty. People ran around on wide-open decks with no storage containers và few people. This year when we go into the Spanish warship, if’s full of sleeping crew. No, there’s not quite the 100-plus snoozing sailors that would have been historically accurate, but the set looks a lot better. We see right off that Flint really had little chance of carrying out his brash plan. So what was her really up to?
Of course we have to go through all the other characters & say hello. But the summing up goes straight into moving the plot forward, from the fiery confrontation between half-naked Charles Vane và Eleanor Guthrie, over whether the fencing of pirate goods will be conducted like a traditional business or lượt thích something entirely new. Vane’ still an anarchist, even though he’s made himself the prime military power nguồn on the island.
Meanwhile, Jack Rackham and Anne Bonny are living in the hell they’ve created for themselves. Owners of a brothel, & betrayers & murders of their old crew, Jack has been kicked off the danh mục of pirates in good standing by Vane, his crimes revealed. When he was miễn phí to go back khổng lồ piracy, the brothel gig looked like a dream. Now with his “good name” in the dirt and angry pirates wanting a bit of their own back for friends that Jake’s killed, he’s in a closer version of hell, beaten up on a daily basis, và without the means to lớn defend himself. (No one, of course, is messing with Anne. They wouldn’t dare.)
I’m sorry for the way Jack is shown in this series. I like the historical Jack Rackham mush better, but this character created by Starz is true to him. And, as we seem lớn be about khổng lồ enjoy a season of backstories & character development, we may find out an interesting thing or two.
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As usually with the really good episodes of Black Sails, the story tends khổng lồ circle around. Lowe opens this show, & comes around at the kết thúc to confront Eleanor over money và power. Flint moves relentlessly forward towards his mysterious goals, even as we see flashbacks into his past. And Silver takes us back khổng lồ last season with the question for Flint “Who vị you think pulled you onto that beach?”
Yes, like the first episode, the requisite points are hit. Naked women? Check. Gorgeous, dirty men? Check. Extreme violence? kiểm tra again. Và a lesbian love-scene waiting right I the wings. Plus, now the cinematography is a beautiful as ever, the costumes – already good – have improved, & the real history of pirates isn’t being entirely ignored. And now we love these characters and can hardly wait to lớn see what trouble they’ll get into next as they follow their bloody fortunes in Black Sails.
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