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Black Sails
Genre / Adventure
cast / Toby Stephens / Luke Arnold / Hannah New / Zack Mcgowan / Pirates!
Creators / Robert Levine / Jonathan Steinberg
What is it about?
Pirates! If there was ever one thing that you
needed to know to watch a TV show, it’s pirates!
Taking inspiration from Louis Stevenson’s classic
novel, the show is set twenty years prior to the
events that unfold in Treasure Island. This isn’t
your Pirates of the Caribbean type of outing
though. The show focuses on the politics and
way of life of being a pirate, and the schemes and
power struggles that took place during the era.
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Why watch it?
Shiver our timbers and shake our barnacles! Did we
mention that Black Sails is filmed entirely on location
in our very own Cape of Good Hope? That’s right,
complete with a South African crew and supporting
cast. The network that brought us Spartacus, Starz,
is behind the buccaneering production, so you can
expect loads of nudity, violence and cursing, albeit
on a much more toned down level. With characters
like the shady and conniving Captain Flint, the
swashbuckling Captain Vane and the hard as nails
businesswoman Ms Guthrie there’s a pirate for
everyone to love and hate or love to hate. Best ye
watch now or forever be a landlubber!
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