Black Sails gets its rocks off breaking walls and keeping to history.
Here’s our review…
Fire!
Thats how the last episode ofBlack Sailsended.
With Flints irrevocable decision to wage war on Vane and Nassau islands fortifications.
I love this show.
Black Sailshas been showing us twists and turns of plot and character development all season.
Dont watch this if you havent seen the rest of the show.
But if you missed an episode or two, get yourself off to the Starz website and catch up.
You wont regret it.
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Whats been going on is manifold.
Hes also been carrying on an affair with Miranda, with the husbands complete compliance.
The plan has been to pardon the pirates, thereby turning them from liabilities to productive citizens.
Historically, this is what happened.
One of the many things I like about this process is that it doesnt happen all at once.
Theres politicking to be done, votes to sway and opinions to be changed.
All of this takes time.
Enough time for Flint to make a roundtrip to the island and back, and assess the situation.
And the situation is not good.
The pirates have been… being pirates.
Theyve killed the wife and child of the previous governor, and thrown the governor himself off the island.
Flint still wants the pirates pardoned.
Mirandas husband still wants the majority of them pardoned.
But then Mirandas father-in-law makes his presence known.
Flint has the upper hand.
This is another thing that the series excels at.
Jacks calm in this situation, one of the few proofs we have that hes stronger than he appears.
Max and her girls dont give a damn.
Whatever group of men wins the fight, theyll still want company and have to pay for it.
Miranda alone is taking real action, rushing off to see Flint.
And Miranda has a point.
Yes, she alone knows why Flint is here, what drove him to be a pirate.
And as we watch along with the flashbacks, we slowly see it too.
Why did Miranda and Flint end up in Nassau?
Why did the navy lieutenant become a pirate?
We see this coming in the last flashback.
We see the disaster that Miranda was trying to avoid, we see the outcome.
Its terrible, and it would have been real.
But Im not going to spoil it.
You have to see this for yourself.
At least, in 1715.
Not a bad idea to go out on a knife fight.
Its just in this case it was anticlimactic.
Rating:
5 out of 5
