I Have Two Words For You Guys..."BLACK SAILS"...

[SteyrAUG]

It's on Starz, you need to start getting caught up NOW. Netflix has it.

If you hear the word "Pirate" and think of skinny Africans on driftwood boats with RPGs taking on unarmed commerce then this show will help fix everything.

Your notion of true pirates will be restored, with a little bit of historical accuracies and some gratuitous nudity for good measure.

If you suffered through the homosexual content in the original Spartacus (which was historically accurate but still not everyone's cup of tea) then the meeting with Blackbeard will set all things straight again (no pun intended).

Interesting characters, well developed storyline, great writers.

Watch it for Hannah New



Watch if for Jessica Parker Kennedy



But just watch it.

[Averageman]

I agree, great show.

[tb-av]

Gotta check that out. I love Pirate shows. Do you know if they are going to have a season 2 of Crossbones with John Malkovich? I was liking that one. Hard to figure where they would keep going with it though.

[JulyAZ]

I got Starz just so I could watch season 1 when it premiered, I was a big Spartacus fan, loved SOA, Never miss a episode of Vikings.
I just couldn't get in to this show I watched season 1 completely, it bored me it tried hard to like this show. I just couldn't, there were no major cliffhangers, and it was obnoxiously predictable. Granted the female cast in this show were amazingly beautiful, but having to deal with the rest of this show wasn't enough to keep me coming back.

[Turnkey11]

Is it set to hit Netflix sometime? I don't do cable.

[tb-av]

First post "Netflix has it."

[SteyrAUG]

I got Starz just so I could watch season 1 when it premiered, I was a big Spartacus fan, loved SOA, Never miss a episode of Vikings.
I just couldn't get in to this show I watched season 1 completely, it bored me it tried hard to like this show. I just couldn't, there were no major cliffhangers, and it was obnoxiously predictable. Granted the female cast in this show were amazingly beautiful, but having to deal with the rest of this show wasn't enough to keep me coming back.

Hmmm, I didn't find it that predictable. But if you couldn't get into after Season One, then obviously it just isn't your thing.

[Cincinnatus]

I didn't see it on Netflix online.
I found it elswhere.

Watched first episode of season one.

It's watchable and more gritty than other pirate movies. You do have to suspend disbelief about some things, like democratically elected captains, women having roles that smack too much a Kiera Knightly in Pirates of the Carribean that are definitley not historically believable, and little things like "dollars" as money rather than pounds or pieces of eight. Also, the girl dual-wielding cutlasses and being fearsome and deadly is great for a Hong Kong action film or anime, or Kill Bill, or Sucker Punch, etc. but really seems out of place and ludicrous in the setting.

I do think the pirates could have been more ruthless, and probably were historically speaking, but the writers have to be careful not to make them too viscious, or you won't care about them as characters. They make them viscious enough to be believable without really crossing that line.

So far, the writers have not made me feel the zeitgeist of the pirate age, though they are trying for it. The little implausibilities keep getting in the way, as well as the fact that the writers seem to be undecided as to which central message or theme they are trying to evoke, coming close to several that could be profound, but never quite getting there.

However, I will have to watch more to really judge its merits.

[jpmuscle]

First post "Netflix has it."

Negative on my Netflix

[SteyrAUG]

I didn't see it on Netflix online.
I found it elswhere.

Watched first episode of season one.

It's watchable and more gritty than other pirate movies. You do have to suspend disbelief about some things, like democratically elected captains, women having roles that smack too much a Kiera Knightly in Pirates of the Carribean that are definitley not historically believable, and little things like "dollars" as money rather than pounds or pieces of eight. Also, the girl dual-wielding cutlasses and being fearsome and deadly is great for a Hong Kong action film or anime, or Kill Bill, or Sucker Punch, etc. but really seems out of place and ludicrous in the setting.

I do think the pirates could have been more ruthless, and probably were historically speaking, but the writers have to be careful not to make them too viscious, or you won't care about them as characters. They make them viscious enough to be believable without really crossing that line.

So far, the writers have not made me feel the zeitgeist of the pirate age, though they are trying for it. The little implausibilities keep getting in the way, as well as the fact that the writers seem to be undecided as to which central message or theme they are trying to evoke, coming close to several that could be profound, but never quite getting there.

However, I will have to watch more to really judge its merits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governa..._a_pirate_ship

The captain was elected by all the men in the crew and could be replaced by a majority vote by the same. Cowardly or brutal captains were quickly voted out of their position. Captains were expected to be skilled and dependable seamen. They were also expected to be bold and decisive leaders.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_piracy

The first level on which pirates and women interacted was through purely business affairs. We often see, in times of war and other hardship that calls upon the entirety of the male population, that women often step up to work the jobs their fathers, husbands, and sons left behind. This was no less the case during the Golden Age of piracy, when many men were forced to set sail for economic reasons.[7] Many women, as a result, took up important jobs previously filled by men. They were allowed to trade, own ships, and work as retailers. Often they were innkeepers or the heads of alehouses. Some laws in seaside towns were even written to allow widows to keep their husbands' responsibilities and property. This was important, as alehouses and other such establishments were spots where pirates congregated and traded with each other and with the people onshore. As heads of these establishments, women had a considerable amount of freedom in business. They boarded and fed pirates, bought illegally pirated goods, acted as pawnbrokers for pirates, and even gave out loans, something many men, let alone women, were cautious of in that time period. In this way, women dealt with pirates and came into possession of pirate goods.[7] When authorities came looking to arrest their clients for piracy, these women even sheltered them from harm.

On the third, final, and most intimate level of interaction, women interacted with male pirates by becoming pirates themselves. This seems surprising for quite a few reasons. First, there are very few female pirates documented by name, and the information on them is often shady and filled with speculation and flourishes rather than facts. In addition to this, pirates did not let women on their ships very often. There were not many conveniences of technology on pirate ships, and not many women were up to the physically demanding tasks the crew had to do. In fact, there were not many men who were up to it, either. Women were also often regarded as bad luck among pirates, and it was feared that arguments would break out between the male members of the crew about them. On many ships, women, young boys, and even different acts such as gambling were prohibited by the ship's contract that the crew all signed.[7] Also, many women on pirate ships did not identify themselves as such. Anne Bonny, for example, dressed and acted as a man while on Captain Calico Jack's ship.[7] She and Mary Read, another female pirate, are often credited with this act as if they had been creative and innovative in their cross-dressing. However, that was not the case. Many women dressed as men during this time period, in an effort to take advantage of the many rights, privileges, and freedoms that were exclusive to men.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bonny

In October 1720, Rackham and his crew were attacked by a "King's ship", a sloop captained by Jonathan Barnet under a commission from the Governor of Jamaica. Most of Rackham's pirates put up little resistance as many of them were too drunk to fight; other sources indicate it was at night and most of them were asleep. However, Read and Bonny fought fiercely and managed to hold off Barnet's troops for a short time.