The year is 1717. Wealthy landowner Stede Bonnet has a midlife crisis and decides to blow up his cushy life to become a pirate. It does not go well. Based on a true story.
Stars: Rhys Darby, Joel Fry and Samson Kayo
Full Cast: Nathan Foad, Matthew Maher, Ewen Bremner, Con ONeill, Vico Ortiz, Kristian Nairn, Samba Schutte, Eden Grace Redfield, Guz Khan, David Fane, Taika Waititi, Nat Faxon
Episode Guide
Season 1
March 24, 2022Episode 10 Wherever You Go, There You Are
March 24, 2022Episode 9 Act of Grace
March 17, 2022Episode 8 We Gull Way Back
March 17, 2022Episode 7 This Is Happening
March 10, 2022Episode 6 The Art of F**kery
March 10, 2022Episode 5 The Best Revenge Is Dressing Well
March 10, 2022Episode 4 Discomfort in a Married State
March 3, 2022Episode 3 A Gentleman Pirate
March 3, 2022Episode 2 A Damned Man
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8.9 81 votesS1E6 The Art of F**kery
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8.7 107 votesS1E5 The Best Revenge Is Dressing Well March 10, 20228.2 125 votesS1E4 Discomfort in a Married State
8.2 125 votesS1E4 Discomfort in a Married State March 3, 20227.8 169 votesS1E3 A Gentleman Pirate
7.8 169 votesS1E3 A Gentleman Pirate March 3, 20227.3 197 votesS1E2 A Damned Man
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Watchseries; This basically adds the character murray from flight of the concords, into an R rated pirates of the carribean themed generic comedy, with oddball side characters. If you are into that sort of thing you will have a great time, I know I did.
This basically adds the character murray from flight of the concords, into an R rated pirates of the carribean themed generic comedy, with oddball side characters. If you are into that sort of thing you will have a great time, I know I did.
Our Flag Means Death watchseries. I can well understand why Taika Waititi said yes to this project. Adding Edward "Blackbeard" Teach to his jewel chest of wicked roles (Alamein in "Boy," Viago, Adolf Hitler) was too good an opportunity. And given that Teach's generation of pirates were surprisingly diverse--a fact that OFMD makes good topical use of--and that virtually no reliable historical documentation of Teach survives other than what came out in his trials, he may very well have been of Jewish Pacific Islander descent. In preparation for watching OFMD I read the entries on Teach and Bonnet from the main source on colonial era pirates and thus for OFMD, the 1724 "General History of the Pyrates," which contains this anecdote about Teach:
"Before he sailed upon his Adventures, he marry'd a young Creature of about sixteen Years of Age, the Governor performing the Ceremony. As it is a Custom to marry here by a Priest, so it is there by a Magistrate; and this, I have been informed, made Teach's fourteenth Wife, whereof, about a dozen might be still living. His Behaviour in this State, was something extraordinary; for, while his Sloop lay in Okerecock Inlet, and he ashore at a Plantation, where his Wife lived, with whom after he had lain all Night, it was his Custom to invite five or six of his brutal Companions to come ashore, and he would force her to prostitute her self to them all, one after another, before his Face."
Has enough time passed to make it okay to glide past this aspect of the real life Teach? Was he worse than Viago, who lived by draining humans of their blood, or sleazy deadbeat dad Alamein, or Hitler? My value system says no, but my stomach makes it hard to enjoy this series as I have other Waititi projects. I just wish he'd turned it down.
I have no idea if it's bad or good because I only watched the first couple minutes or so. Problem is I started watching Black Sails about a week ago and already almost through with the last season, so to go from watching that to this just felt so disrespectful because black sails is such an amazing mature pirate show and this seems to fall more into the comedic genre and I wasn't in the right mindset from that. I'll definitely check it out later just to see taika waititi in it, but from the glimpse I had it doesn't look like it's gonna be everyone's cup of tea, like a more puerile type of humor. A non bloodthirsty pirate captain going through a midlife crisis.
Watiti made some good original shows but now they think he is the new golden child and doing what hollywood does. Throws money at him and let him do what he wants with little over site. Now that works at times but unchecked you get this. Its not that good and I believe its completely due to the script. The production value is great, the acting is top notch. But again the script not good The humor is mostly low key and broadcasted so far an advance you can figure most of it out 5 min before it happens Now not to just call out Watiti there is a lot of blame for this to go around This unfortunately is another in a long line of original streaming shows that I was looking forward to that I will not be waiting for weekly.
This show is hilarious another hit for Taika Waititi can't wait for more! It's already half way through and I don't want the season to end. HBO has been killing it with comedy's lately.
The silliness of this show works because of the excellent cast, and it gets better through the later episodes imo. It was probably more fun to produce this than to watch, bit it's exactly the kind of effort that audiences should reward- dumb as it is, it's a great break from the stark reality of 2022 : )