Black Sails 1 x 1 | Full-Length Reaction (🌸Premium Support Tier🌸)

I never heard of this show!! Alright let's start Edit: oh they had me at West Indies!!! My people! ✊🏿

My favorite show ever! So excited!!

Just realized you're doing this show. It's maybe the most underrated show of all time. Captain Flint is one of my all time favorite characters. I love a nuanced character. This is one of those shows where the character arcs are just phenomenal. I really think you'll love it.

this show is amazing

Thank you for making the first episode available to all !! This is one of my all time favourites, just waiting for august to upgrade, this one I can’t miss out on 🙂‍↕️

This was fun to watch with the exception that keeps taking me out of suspension of belief. It gets me every time. If you look at all the characters we have been shown, especially the man with all the scars who wants to be captain. They all have perfectly white teeth, none are missing, none are discolored, and it stood out the most with the man who wanted to be the captain. Obviously he’s been through facial traumas yet all of his teeth are there and all of them so white. I know this sounds so petty, but it’s always been a pet peeve of mine.

Also, that is indeed the guy from The Umbrella Academy. I know he has a name but I continued to call him Billy Bones anyway during its run.

Yay! So excited for this! Truth time: I watched this episode right before the third season on the recommendation of a friend and was like ... it's fine LOL. At the time, my impression was that it had a GOT vibe but on a boat. Thankfully, I circled back a few months later. I read a summary of Treasure Island, which was helpful context for the story being told, and I saw a spoiler. Both made me think, "well, now I want to know how we got from Point A to Point B." I'm already having a great time watching with this reaction. I've never rewatched the first seasons and am really excited to experience it again and get sucked back into all the plot points I've forgotten.

Dear Frank, Hello, hello...I am SO excited that you’re watching Black Sails! Along with IWTV/TVL (and a handful of others), it’s one of my favourite TV shows of all time. I’ve been a fan of yours for about a year and a half, and came over to patreon in June of last year after watching your IWTV reactions on YouTube. You’re not just one of my favourite reactors...you’re such a breath of fresh air in online spaces that often times end up becoming cesspools of nastiness. Your thoughtfulness, intellect, adaptability, open-mindedness, humour and empathy are a delight to witness. The fact that I found FoxTaco through you AND that every once a while you share videos and photos of your adorable cats with us...well, those are some great bonuses in my eyes. Not to get too personal or mushy, but I’ve unfortunately had very few good experiences with men in my life outside of my father (thank God for him), and as a queer woman of colour life can get bleak sometimes. Knowing that there’s guys like you and FoxTaco out there is truly wonderful. I’ve been fervently hoping that you’d react to this show for quite a while and now that you are I had to write a little (or maybe not so little) message to thank you for giving it a shot. I’m painfully shy when it comes to first “introducing” myself to anyone for the first time – even online. In the year that I’ve been on here, I think I’ve only responded to maybe two or three messages in the general chat. I’d been gearing up to write to both you and FoxTaco towards the end of your TVL reactions because I just have so many thoughts about the new season/the premise/the performances (I’m loving it so far!), but I just couldn’t help myself when I saw that you’d posted this. I immediately upgraded to your premium tier and I can’t wait to go on this journey with you and all the other patrons in the garden. No spoilers at all, but Black Sails truly is one of the best shows about the power of stories and storytelling that I’ve ever watched. From this very first episode, one of the themes it explores (which it, in a way, shares with IWTV/TVL) is truth. What is the truth? How can the truth about something differ for people based on their lived experience and memory of it? How powerful is the truth? How powerful can a story be, be it true or not? The show does such a stellar job over the course of the 4 seasons exploring that. It also centres some of my other favourite themes/subjects: colonialism (and the blight upon the world that it was and still is; I LOVE the poster of Flint standing before a burning British flag, ngl), “civilisation”, racism, patriarchy, capitalism, religion and the power and role of shame in society. I’m so looking forward to hearing all your thoughts on how the show fares tackling such relevant and important subjects. It’s got some of my favourite characters of all time and plenty of kickass action, too. Like some people have commented before me, Season 1 is the weakest of the four and it’s still pretty damn good. Again, no spoilers, but I will say that the way it treats some of its black, brown and female characters (as you’ve gotten a little bit of a taste of already) at some points this season definitely left a bad taste in my mouth so I wanted to let you know. From season 2 on, it does get so much better. In fact, I personally think that seasons 2-4 are as close to jaw-droppingly perfect as TV can get. I’m so pleased that you liked this episode as much as you did. No pressure to, obviously, but I truly hope that you enjoy the show...I’m so looking forward to the next episode. Wishing you a great rest of your week and take care! Lots of love, Veru🫰☺️🏴‍☠️ P.S: This show is historical fiction, of course, and inspired by characters from the book Treasure Island (I don’t know if you’ve watched the Disney film Treasure Planet, it’s a pretty good sci-fi take on it), but it actually does a generally alright job when it comes to the history of pirates. As you noticed, some (not all) pirate crews modelled a system somewhat comparable to democracy – and even held with some rather radical practices by today’s standards – even as far back as the late 1600s/early 1700s. Many pirates were outlaws, renegades and/or minorities who now lived outside the repressive societal norm, it doesn’t surprise me that more progressive or unorthodox ways of life emerged amongst them. It was still awful to women for the most part, with very few exceptions, but the men on (again, some, not all) pirate crews were treated as equals regardless of background/nationality/race/creed. They had elected leadership (captain and quartermaster, for example) and their power was limited – if the crew was displeased with their performance, they could vote to have them deposed. They had workers’ compensation in case of injury, equal shares of the profit for the crew, the quartermaster could – in theory – veto the captain. They even had matelotage – a practice were same-sex pairs of pirates got married (some even with ceremonies, even though it was nowhere near legal at the time!) for romantic and/or practical reasons. Whilst not all partnerships were romantic, of course, they all benefitted from the companionship as well as shared living quarters and payment that came with the marriage. These couples or pairs also had the assurance of inheritance – should one of them die, the other would get their partner’s belongings and share of future profit. A pretty fascinating bunch, pirates. Anyway, that’s all this history nerd’s got for you today (so sorry for how obscenely long this message was). All the best to you!

Im excited to see what all the hype is about for this show, ive heard nothing but good things

Never was able to watch this one but I heard it was great! Happy to watch along

Oh hello. I've always wanted to watch this, but never got around to it! Happy to watch it with you!

I'M SO EXCITED!! So happy you enjoyed the 1st episode, the show only gets better and better. Unfortunately there are some dark parts but it's so worth it. It's the most entertaining and realistic depiction of pirates I have ever watched. And I'm not sure if you know the lore of Treasure Island but this is considered a prequel to the events of the book. Also a lot of the characters (minus Flint and Silver) in the show are based on real people/pirates in history. I'm going to be so excited for Mondays now!!

* insert excited screaming gif here *

I'm locked in! First time watching this for me too--been a long time coming. I'm so glad this doesn't seem to be a men-only show, since that kills my interest quick. Interesting characters all around, and always fun when the main character is established to be a liar 😆

I frickin' love this show! So glad it's here. Also, Spartacus is an amazing show. Some of the most fun dialogue I've ever heard. Maybe tied with Deadwood. The League of Extraordinary Gentleman was one of my favorite movies as a kid. I watched it several times. A decade or so later I heard everyone else apparently thought it sucked and was like "you dudes must have watched a different movie.". xD

FIRE LET’S GOOOOOO. One of the best intros too. So excited for this journey : )

I just rewatched this show a few months ago but I am so here to watch it again with you because it is just that good. I do think the first season is the weakest one, but that's more on how good the rest of the seasons are. (well mostly, but I will save that for the end of the first season.)

It’s a real fun show Ive got a certain relationship with this show but I’ll save my shit for the end of this season

best show with my favorite intro oat

let's go!! so excited for you to experience this ✌