Should you watch Black Sails?
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Black Sails
Series · 2014
The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes by the name John Silver. Threatened with extinction on all sides, they fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day – a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both its enlightened ideals and its stunning brutality.
The sides of Black Sails
- Captain Flint and a young John Silver
- The pirate haven of New Providence
- Twenty years before Treasure Island
Black Sails is good for you if…
- you like rooting for Captain Flint, a brilliant and feared pirate.
- you like pirates fighting to keep their island against an empire.
- you like John Silver talking his way out of every trap.
Black Sails is bad for you if…
- you can't stand brutal fights and torture.
- you'd rather not watch sex scenes, or you watch with others.
About: freedom · revenge · loyalty
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