His love of “fuckery,” as noted in the show, is well-documented, lighting fuses in his hat to strike fear into his victims and enemies. Teach commandeered a French slave ship and renamed it the Queen Anne’s Revenge, amassing over 40 cannons and a crew of 300 men. But from 1716 to 1718, Blackbeard was the terror of the West Indies. So if someone tries to sell you a Blackbeard origin story, they’re making it up. Edward Teach might not have even been his real name. Any record of Edward Teach’s life before he became a pirate has been lost to time. The kraken myth was pretty hazy at the time Blackbeard was active, and only came into popularity decades afterwards. All right, quick overview.įirst of all, all the stuff about Blackbeard being “The Kraken” was made up for the show. Maybe don’t watch One Piece to learn about Blackbeard. Should we even do this one? There are plenty of books and movies out there about Blackbeard. I mean, if you’ve heard of pirates, you’ve heard of Blackbeard. I don’t have to tell you Blackbeard was real. Personally, we’ll be fine if they take a few liberties here.
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Well, if we can rely on history to dictate what’s in store for Stede in Season 2, then Stede Bonnet will go on to start a sham trading business until getting back to full piracy again, get battered about by some nasty hurricanes, wage his final battle against Colonel William Rhett at Cape Fear River, be sentenced to hanging, and never see Blackbeard again. From there, Bonnet briefly took an offer from the king to work as a privateer, a post he abandoned to return to piracy and rescue his men that Blackbeard had left marooned.Īnd that’s… a pretty accurate summary of Our Flag Means Death Season 1, honestly. And he even joined his crew to Blackbeard’s from 1717 to 1718, until Blackbeard assumed complete command, beached his crew, and made off with The Revenge and all of their property. Rather than steal a ship, as pirates usually do by definition, Bonnet used his own money to have The Revenge built himself. Born in 1688, Stede Bonnet was an educated Englishman with a wife and children who left his family behind for a life of misadventure on the high seas as “The Gentleman Pirate,” despite no prior knowledge of piracy or life at sea. Here we’ve collected the dramatis personae of Our Flag Means Death and their clear analogs to the pirates of the Caribbean Sea. Still, if you thought coming into this that Blackbeard was the only pirate to sail the seas in our world and in this one, then allow us to lift the bilge from your eyes. We’d say somewhere between The Great and Chernobyl. How much exactly? Well… it’s not perfect. The more you look into the Golden Age of Piracy in the early 18th century, the more you may be surprised about how much the show gets right about the people involved. Any similarities to these persons, to paraphrase a repeated legal warning, are not purely coincidental. There’s still one hot pre-existing IP that this misadventure on the high seas happens to draw upon: actual world history and figures long dead. Our Flag Means Death is a show that stands all on its own thanks to smartly written comedy, emotionally resonant romance, impeccable stunt casting, and some unbeatable needle drops.Īll the same, that’s not to say the show comes wholecloth from nothing.
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A rarity among cult hit shows these days, there’s no series of comics or films or video games for us to pick apart and analyze to understand background and context. Our Flag Means Death holds a special place in our hearts among the suite of yet-uncanceled or unlisted HBO Max original programming.
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