Another great episode of Black Sails. For whatever reason I stopped watching this show for a while, I probably got caught up in another show. But the first episode I come back to immediately pulls me back into this world of pirates. This show tells its story like no other television series I have seen. It's very dialogue heavy but none of it ever feels like filler and whenever action does happen it has meaning, the new pirate in town cuts the head off of one of his crew because he suspects he is a snitch/traitor or maybe he just did it for fun. This scene was actually terrifying, I've seen plenty of decapitation scenes in movies. But the way its played out here in such a realistic fashion, Guthrie comes into the room, the crewmate screaming as his head is being cut off. It was actually hard to watch and had my anxiety up. This is how I knew how invested I was, I can sit and watch Saw and not be scared because of how death and grotesque scenes are treated as no big deal but this show treats its world with care. Also the characters are so incredibly written, which is a must for such a dialogue driven show. Also Season 2's production and the filmmaking has grown since Season 1. It looks very cinematic in a lot of places, you might even mistake this for an HBO show with the quality on display. The only thing that holds this episode back are the flashbacks involving Flint but knowing this show, sitting through those scenes will payoff in the long run. 9/10.
3 Reviews
Best episode yet!!
RealCJHopkins25 June 2024
(Shortened summary in the bottom of the review)
Fantastic episode with great dialogue, also driven much from its long but fulfilling and phenomenal dialogue and story it provides through its ca. 1 hour running time of complete greatness.
Silver and Flint are also growing on each other really fast now in a fantastic way, creating a fantastic friendship for further episodes to explore.
Flint has also set himself on a mission to take back the role as Captain in a old fashioned coup, which this episode also follows much about.
(10/10)
Shortened summary: Great episode with great deep dialogue, the relationship between Silver & Flint evolving really fast & Flint plotting a coup to take back the Captaincy.
Fantastic episode with great dialogue, also driven much from its long but fulfilling and phenomenal dialogue and story it provides through its ca. 1 hour running time of complete greatness.
Silver and Flint are also growing on each other really fast now in a fantastic way, creating a fantastic friendship for further episodes to explore.
Flint has also set himself on a mission to take back the role as Captain in a old fashioned coup, which this episode also follows much about.
(10/10)
Shortened summary: Great episode with great deep dialogue, the relationship between Silver & Flint evolving really fast & Flint plotting a coup to take back the Captaincy.
Another glorious day for a broadside
SuperHelpfulMedic3 February 2015
Ahoy landlubbers, grog blossoms and scalawags. There is much merriment to be had from this week's episode. We open up with an unusual scene which may leave you gloriously happy or happily perplexed.
All is not well in the kingdom - uh, I mean, in the free and democratic land of Flint - uh, I mean, of the Caribbean.
Eleanor learns that swords and dirks may kill a man but words cannot kill jack (as in the expression, not Jack Rackham). Flint and Silver play Game of Thrones Light on a boat and Jack (Rackham this time) and Anne Bonny discover that brothel business can be much more than just rum and women.
Thank god there's no commercials on this show, because each episode finishes faster than a young man's first time with a woman of leisure.
Ahoy!
All is not well in the kingdom - uh, I mean, in the free and democratic land of Flint - uh, I mean, of the Caribbean.
Eleanor learns that swords and dirks may kill a man but words cannot kill jack (as in the expression, not Jack Rackham). Flint and Silver play Game of Thrones Light on a boat and Jack (Rackham this time) and Anne Bonny discover that brothel business can be much more than just rum and women.
Thank god there's no commercials on this show, because each episode finishes faster than a young man's first time with a woman of leisure.
Ahoy!
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