Our Flag Means Death

This came out on HBO within the last week and I don’t think I’ve seen any mention of it here. They dropped the pilot and an additional 2 episodes. It’s a comedy about an aristocrat that decides to give it all up and become a pirate.

It’s no masterpiece, by any means, but it’s been funny enough to keep me watching. I’m meh on most of the cast so far, but the main characters actor is great and carries it well enough. I just read Taika is playing Blackbeard, so that alone will keep me watching.


“People who tune into the HBO Max pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death aren’t going to be surprised by the tone or nature of the humor. Co-stars Taika Waititi and Rhys Darby worked together on the TV series Flight of the Conchords and Waititi’s movies Hunt for the Wilderpeople and What We Do in the Shadows. (Darby, famously, was the profanity-hating leader of the “werewolves, not swearwolves” pack.) The new series shares some of the same subdued absurdist comedy they use in those projects, built around the same kinds of endlessly awkward, puffed-up strivers who have no idea how ridiculous they look to everyone around them. This time, Darby stars as awkward, incompetent pirate captain Stede Bonnet, and Waititi backs him up as his partner and mentor, Edward Teach — aka the notorious pirate Blackbeard.”

anyone else watching?