With just two episodes left in the third season of Black Sails, I thought I’d revisit the predictions I made after the season’s premiere. The legend has been born! I was right about a few things. The seeds of Treasure Island are indeed beginning to grow and Silver has begun his transformation into the Long…
Eleanor Guthrie, played by Hannah New, has always been one of my favorite characters on Black Sails. Last season, she sided with Flint, hoping his voyage to return the kidnapped daughter of Charleston’s governor would pave the way for Nassau’s legitimacy. She also betrayed a few people along the way, including her ex-lover, Charles Vane,…
With little time to write this week, I wanted to pass on my thoughts about last week’s season premiere of Black Sails on Starz. The premiere showed a ton of promise for season three. Edward Teach (aka Blackbeard) is on his way to Nassau. Max, Jack, and Anne Bonny are worried about the damaged fortress,…
Winter of 2016 is promising to be a fantastic year for historical and fantasy-themed television. Season 3 of Black Sails is right around the corner, followed by the debut of Season 4 of History’s Vikings. And, in perhaps the most unexpected new addition, MTV, of all networks, has already brought us a surprisingly good adaptation…
Season 2 of Black Sails on Starz has proved to be the best historical fiction on TV by a long shot – at least until Outlander returns in two weeks. But seriously, Season 1 was good, Season 2 has been amazing. Going into Saturday’s finale, I thought I’d re-cap some of the thoughts I had…
This Saturday marks the return of the Starz original series Black Sails. It is the first of what should be an incredible run of shows in the first half of 2015, including seasons 3 of Vikings and Da Vinci’s Demons, as well as the return of Outlander and the next season of Game of Thrones….
I missed this when it came out last month, but Starz has started promoting the new season of Black Sails, the amazingly well-crafted “prequel” to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Last season was intense (and far superior to NBC’s Crossbones in my view), with Captain Flint and Long John Silver barely surviving an attack by a…
No time to blog this week. Yet with pirates all the rage these days, I’m re-posting one of my favorite bits from the talented folks at Horrible Histories – enjoy!
Pirates must be all the rage these days. Barely two months after the finale of Black Sails on Starz, which was a worthy prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (with another season on the way), NBC is offering a new pirate drama based on the notorious captain Black Beard. It’s titled Crossbones and premiers tomorrow at 10 PM. The series…
This has been a crazy month so far if you’re a fan of television shows with historical or fantasy elements. I’m running out of time in the day to keep up with all the good TV airing right now, and we’re still a few weeks away from the biggest one of them all, the debut…
In honor of Black Sails, my new favorite show during the endless winter that exists between each season of Game of Thrones, I discovered this little bit of pirate humor thanks to the talented folks at Horrible Histories. Enjoy!