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The series begins and ends in the Bahamas with a war against the British empire, it's premise is about heisting a Spanish merchant fleet. The filming took place in south Africa but also features some episodes away from what is meant to be the Caribbean.

What is described as the golden age follows the most famous pirates of the era working together to make a better place for themselves. The insight and knowledge is huge to better understand the trade, and also the costumes and the settings are to a fantastically high standard.

The TV series is adapted from a comic book series written in Japan, it follows an Icelandic boy called Thorfinn who comes of age during the series and is heavily involved in the Danelaw era of the Viking expansion in northern Europe, with the show mostly set in England a millennium ago.

The series has a detailed historical accuracy and has historical figures as main characters, also it actually follows events that occurred in Norse expansion of the north Atlantic. Whilst going into detail of events typical to have happened during the a day and age.

It is a great series to watch to better understand the era and protagonists in the story of north American settlement by Vikings centuries before Columbus, and to further explain how England developed as a country alongside Celtic nations. Then also the show is action packed with a good story about war and royalty and families.