Our Flag Means Death to batten down the hatches for a second season
As an early Pride Month gift, HBO Max has renewed Taika Waititi’s endearing pirate comedy for another voyage
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Alright, gentleman pirates, get that poop deck swabbed, hoist the mainsails, and make sure to stock your secret wardrobe with the finest cashmere scarves because Our Flag Means Death is coming back for a second season.
The hit “pirate show,” referred to, with love, on social media as “the pirate show,” wrapped up its first season last March, and the cult surrounding the show has only grown. Our Flag Means Death was at the center of a number of Venn diagrams, the nexus of Taika Waititi comedies, queer romance, and lavish production designs. The show’s big heart and big laughs have made it the perfect subject for gif-based photosets on Tumblr. It really was tailor-made for that site.
Thankfully, HBO Max saw the benefit in people loving the show and made the tough decision to finally announce a second season. “We felt the show was special while we were making it, but fans’ open-armed embrace of the inhabitants of the Revenge makes heading into a second season all the more sweet,” Flag creator David Jenkins said.
For those who haven’t fallen in love with the show yet, Our Flag Means Death follows a would-be pirate, Stede (Rhys Darby), who abandons his life as an upstanding gentleman for a life on the high seas. While he’s rich enough to afford a ship and a crew, it’s not until he meets the legendary pirate Blackbeard (Taika Waititi) that he starts to learn that there’s more to swashbuckling than avoiding scurvy and wearing a parrot on your shoulder. And here’s the really weird part: Blackbeard learns a little bit about being a gentleman as well.
While HBO Max was nice enough to announce a second season, they haven’t yet told us when we can watch it. We’ll keep our glued eyes to the spyglass for developments.
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Ah, great news. Fun cast.
HBO keeping the entire LGBT fanbase in suspense for months just so they could announce it in time for pride is the new working definition of being an ally the exact wrong way
Yeeeeey the show I wanted to like but ended up just being okay and now I get annoying Twitter DMs from people who think they understand pirate history. Hurrah…
I really doubt you do. What, once? MAYBE? In response to one of your own tweets months ago?
On one hand I do like that the show doesn’t queer bait at all and I can see a lot of people have related to this show and I’m glad for them. Now if only they’d stop telling me that pirates were somehow tolerant and good people. I mean they had to write out the fact Stede Bonnet was a slaveowner, that’s a problem. Look I researched Anne Bonny and got quoted in a newspaper that’s on her Wikipedia page, that has attracted attention and in ways I’d prefer not.
Really slow day at work so I found the article: https://www.postandcourier.com/news/a-22-year-old-youtuber-may-have-solved-anne-bonny-pirate-mystery-300-years-after/article_78fc0a2e-2914-11eb-a5f5-03b65f4d281a.htmlThat’s super cool, man!
Yep that’s the article. Some things have changed, now a woman so the photo is a bit out of date. Still my best research. The problem that keeps haunting me is saying definitely saying Anne Bonny and Mary Read aren’t LGBTQ, which contradicts recent depictions, Our Flag Means Death included. There’s a very clear Mary Read character who’s non binary and, that isn’t remotely what’s going on with the historical figure.
I don’t know if the showrunners really have any obligation to historical accuracy in this comedy about Blackbeard and Bonnet having a gay romance 300 years ago.
Especially since Bonnet and Blackbeard never met again after the events of the finale. That’s going to be tough to follow in season 2.
It wasn’t as funny as I thought it would be, but it was a really well-made show.
I felt the same. I wanted it to be funnier than it was. Parts were endearing, and the LGBT themes were heartwarming, but I wanted the comedy part of it to be better.
Will Arnett’s pirate has the best / thematically relevant line: “Pirates don’t have friends, we’re just in various states of fucking each other over!”
This show is a god damn delight and I am glad to have more of it.
Yes, same! I hope there is more fuckery in season 2. 🙂