Our Flag Means Death

The second season of Our Flag Means Death came and gave us the best October we could have gotten, but I didn't watch it in October because (my dog, I have horrible dyslexia, and I've fixed like twenty times the few words I've written) I don't like to wait a week to week for chapters, so I waited for all the chapters to finish coming out and I watched them, I'm glad I did that because the story became better than it…

I don't know why I had the feeling that this series had much more time to have been released. No, it only has a year of being released, or I think it doesn't even have a year, anyway, thanks to that it stops surprising me how incredible it is, besides, I feel that life has cheated me with my friendships, nobody saw this series, and nobody recommended it to me, that is something that worries me because it is a perfec…

Oh, the Golden Age of Piracy ... Infamous names, such as Blackbeard, Calico Jack, Stede Bonnet and the legendary Republic of Pirates ... A rich stew of historical tall tales where facts and fiction intertwine to create that usable and reusable material for endless lore about the adventurous scourge of the high seas. Rowdy characters, tainted by greed, rum, and violence, finding general appeal based almost entirely o…

The genre of pirates is one that never really has managed to take off in the film industry for some odd reason, it seems the full extent in recent years pertains mostly to a single franchise and maybe the odd series that comes and goes without really ever gaining much traction and yes, I am referring to both Pirates of the Caribbean and Black Sails. These two creations sitting at the forefront of an otherwise very s…

'Nothing in my head but gay pirates', a comment on Twitter reads about 'Our Flag Means Death', an eight part series starring Taika Waititi and Rhys Darby. I feel this whole heartedly - since binge watching the series, it keeps returning to my thoughts and making me smile. I'm a fan of anything Waititi does - the tension he creates between tragedy and humour, brutality and softness, is always poignant. If you've seen…

Come di consueto oggi vi porto dentro una nuova Anteprima di un articolo che fra qualche giorno o settimana vedrete Nella Mente di un SerialFiller, il mio blog interamente incentrato sul mondo delle serie tv e di cui, da qualche mese, ho deciso di regalarvi costantemente, in anticipo su quello che pubblicherò, gran parte dei post che vedrete su www.serialfiller.org. Parodia parodiosa oggi per voi. Non perdetevela, a…