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- Starz
- Jan 23, 2016
- Starz
- Jan 23, 2016
Summary Created by creator Jonathan Steinberg as a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island set in 1715, pirate Captain Flint (Toby Stephens) and his crew prepare to fight the British Royal Navy over New Providence Island with the help of Eleanor Guthrie (Hannah New), a daughter of a local smuggling kingpin.
Created By: Robert Levine, Jonathan E. Steinberg
- Starz
- Jan 23, 2016
- Starz
- Jan 23, 2016
Black Sails
Season 3
Season Premiere: Jan 23, 2016
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5.9
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Summary Created by creator Jonathan Steinberg as a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island set in 1715, pirate Captain Flint (Toby Stephens) and his crew prepare to fight the British Royal Navy over New Providence Island with the help of Eleanor Guthrie (Hannah New), a daughter of a local smuggling kingpin.
Created By: Robert Levine, Jonathan E. Steinberg
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Based on 147 User Ratings
5.9
59% Positive
87 Ratings
87 Ratings
6% Mixed
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35% Negative
51 Ratings
51 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 147 User Ratings
5.9
59% Positive
87 Ratings
87 Ratings
6% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
35% Negative
51 Ratings
51 Ratings
After watching again the 3 Seasons of this show, almost in less than a week, what I see is a story where the original's novel is recreated. L. Stevenson, if you read it, is detailed, slow, not all is about battle, it's about the story of it's pirates, the pirates that he made a legend. Ambience is well created, music, is quite original and good, it keeps the pirate spirit quite true, and the characters are mostly well played. But best of all, is the mood of the show, it's indeed recreating a movie mood, not a tv quick show. I really like it. May be it could show more of their real life as buccaneers, the best chapter in this season was the last one,but everything is slowly leading there.
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SEASON 3
Episode 10 it's the best thing I've ever seen in my whole life. I always say that one good episode doesn't compensate for lot of bad ones and you can say what ever you want about black sails but what this episode managed it's worth any flaw you can find in this show and more.
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SEASON 3
Black Sails has been a joy for me to watch. Season 3 is proving to be a continuation of surprises and excitement. Just when the power mongers juxapositioning seems dead-on full, a trump card is introduced in the presence of Blackbeard! Edward Teach will school all! The first and second episode is foreboding and includes a ship to ship race into a raging storm with great spellbinding shots! People, let go of your petty criticisms and sit back and enjoy. No distant past can be recreated exactly. Rid the world of professional critics! Is there no sense of wonder left in your souls? Your opinions are frankly moot to the rest of us humans. A few years ago, I caught a pirate exhibition at the Denver Museum and this show exemplifies the attainment towards democracy and equality between races that in reality was true. Black Sails is an interesting study of powerful wills, desires and dreams with flaws on every side. Then again, were the pirates any worse than the powerful heads of State? A good lesson to observe during an election year in the US. Beware of agendas! Beware of power! Beware and learn from the past. Great excuse to look up some history and learn. I wonder; who are the pirates of today?
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SEASON 3
I feel like this show is trying to be Game of Thrones with pirates. But it moves sooo slowly! Also, everything is a twist. It's always like this so we just learn to expect that the 'plans' that have been laid out in the dialog won't happen as discussed. Also, every main character is similar in the way that they strive towards grand ambitions. Where are the characters that don't give a **** The ones with plans beyond grand schemes? Everything is a slow and tedious grand scheme with a 'surprise' twist. There really isn't much character to the characters. It seems like the TV producer's goal was to just stretch out each season and the show for as long as possible and to achieve this we are given a snails pace where little happens each episode and where schemes and plot twists take precedence over genuine characters.
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SEASON 3
All they do is talk, and talk, and talk. Lot's of plotting, or scheming, or maneuvering and very little action. What kind of a pirate show is this? Where's the plundering and attacking and stealing? Where are the cannons and the sea battles? Where are the fights and the gratuitous, merkined sex scenes?
This show has become incredibly watered down so far this season. All the male characters are tucking tail and running, or constantly second guessing themselves, leaving the females as the only ones with any balls, so to speak. Even previous bad asses like Vane have been neutered this season. And Blackbeard has been a total disappointment. If there's any pirate who you'd expect would be all about the brutal force and action, it's that guy. They did a fine job of introducing him, but then later he became just as pensive and chatty as the rest of them.
I'm getting to the point where I'm not even watching it now until I hear a gun shot or something other than endless conversation threatening to put me to sleep.
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SEASON 3
Things that make this season feel DULL:
1. Big buildup and ultimate letdown with Blackbeard
2. Unfocused story arc for flint. (He's supposed to be like Odysseus on some kind of Odyssey or something, according to the producers)
3. Uninteresting romance for Eleanor. An excuse to keep her, literally, in the background.
4. Woodes Rogers being the nicest antagonist ever. (So far, at least).
Things that make this season EXCITING:
1. Any fight scene with Vane
2. Silver's descent
3. ...?
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SEASON 3