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Our Flag Means Death
2022–2023Comedy · Romance
Started as a workplace sitcom on a boat and became a genuine romance.
A gentleman pirate falls in love with Blackbeard. Historically... adjacent.
Our take
Stede Bonnet, a wealthy landowner who really existed, abandons his family to become a spectacularly bad pirate, and then meets Blackbeard. The first few episodes play as a mild ensemble comedy; by the back half of season one it has turned into an earnest love story between two middle-aged men, and the tonal shift is the whole trick.
Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi are excellent, the ensemble is queer at every level including a non-binary character played by Vico Ortiz, and the fandom that formed around it was formidable enough to make its two-season cancellation a minor news event. Bittersweet, silly, and worth it.
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Jibbi Score — 4.5 out of 5 rainbows. Started as a workplace sitcom on a boat and became a genuine romance.
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The plot, officially
After trading in the seemingly charmed life of a gentleman for one of a swashbuckling buccaneer, Stede Bonnet becomes captain of the pirate ship Revenge. Struggling to earn the respect of his potentially mutinous crew, Stede’s fortunes change after a fateful run-in with the infamous Captain Blackbeard. Stede and crew attempt to get their ship together and survive life on the high seas.
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