X
- HBOMAX
- Oct 5, 2023
- HBOMAX
- Oct 5, 2023
- HBOMAX
- Oct 5, 2023
- HBOMAX
- Oct 5, 2023
Season Episodes
View All Seasons
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
75
81% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
19% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
75
81% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
19% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
It’s hard not to feel like Season 2 is the Empire Strikes Back of Our Flag Means Death. It brings emotional, romantic, and comedic depth that never would have been possible without the foundation of Season 1, and it uses that advantage to reach heights both die-hard fans and skeptical viewers won’t see coming.
The follow-up to Our Flag Means Death’s sensational first season retains the reasons legions of fans fell so hard for the show.
Episode three, “The Innkeeper,” makes us wait a hell of a long time to learn the truth of Blackbeard’s fate. .... The episode ends in a true gift for Stede/Ed shippers that’s also in keeping with Our Flag’s gorgeous earnestness.
[The score is the average of grades for the first three episodes.]
Though it takes a couple of episodes to find the equilibrium that made Season One a breakout hit, “Our Flag Means Death"'s second installment elevates the show's ensemble comedy to new heights by shifting its tender queer romance front and center. With its unorthodox approach to comedy and romance, “Our Flag Means Death” continues to be a delightful surprise.
A mostly successful, intermittently inert second season that complicates the liberated bliss of free love with the moral responsibility that comes with free will.
The prevailing emphasis on Stede and Ed also creates an irregular pace that does a disservice to the supporting characters by first meandering and then sprinting through story lines involving them; a cliffhanger ending for seventh episode “Man on Fire,” the last one provided for review, probably would have had more impact if the crew drama leading up to it felt less abrupt.
It’s not so much that a rom-com can’t or shouldn’t be built around these two men, but that it so clearly prefers to look away from their inconvenient truths. The show’s initial outing at least offered a few comedic jabs in the direction of colonialism, but it was only willing to go so far. The new season doesn’t even bother. Instead, “Our Flag Means Death” erases this moral atrocity [slave owning] altogether.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 User Ratings
8.0
75% Positive
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
13% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
13% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 User Ratings
8.0
75% Positive
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
13% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
13% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
There are no user reviews yet. Be the first to add a review.