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Historically this is a glossy magazine. Titillating to the point of boredom. All shiny six packs and topless (admitedley beautiful) girls. Shiny teeth and sexy sweat. The plot drags on and on, with all the inevitable twists and turns of a sixties soap opera. For Christ's sake, wake up. This is just visual soup. Nothing more. Get a life.

I don't understand the high ratings. No plot, everybody has perfect Caribbean tans and pearly, white teeth.

Then, when the story starts to drag, let's cut to a shagging scene!

So insipid, just awful. Don't waste your time on it.

I thought I was going to see some bad ass pirates doing their thing. But really it's just lame TV drama with the usual trappings aimed toward your western viewer. Soon as I saw the token "strong woman who acts like a man" talking about her her you-know-what gets wet while a bunch of beta males laughed in admiration, I was done. Yeah, we get it. She's a female but she's also like a man! Such wow, so amaze! And that was just the first episode.

Yeah, pass.

Blue eyed pirates with perfect teeth, half naked women with perfect breasts ruins the authenticity of this show I get a better feeling of truth from " the bachelor" I kept waiting for someone to hand out a rose

My goodness, how overrated is this series! I can look past the white Prodent teeth of mister Silver, the sixpack of captain Vane and the super model whores. But all the talking! What's with all the talking! It was as if they were a bunch of tea-ladies. If I'm going to watch a pirate series, I want to see action! And I don't mean action in the bed. And the swearing.. come on.. I can accept an f-word here and there, but it was like there had to be about fifty swear words each episode. Oh, and then Mr. Rackham.. he's like the weirdest character I've ever seen. He cries like a baby. Wow, that's a tough pirate, hey!

And if this series is meant to be serious, then why is this Silver guys upposed to be funny? It doesn't suit the series at all.

The only two good things I can think of is the acting of most actors. Especially the main character acts really well. And... Jessica Parker Kennedy.

I can't believe people actually rate this a 10.

If you are expecting an actual show about pirates you're wasting your time. This is nothing more than a period piece soap opera. There is very little actual pirate action on the open sea. It's basically a lot of bickering on an island in the Bahamas.

The first episode starts out great and you get the idea this is what the series will be about.... It's not. It goes downhill quickly from there

As others have mentioned, all of the pirates are buff with perfect teeth. All the women are 10s and walk around topless.

If you are into lesbian scenes, hot women acting tough, a lot of profanity and nudity then this is the show for you. If you are expecting an actual show about pirates, don't waste your time.

I stopped watching it during third season. Couldn't take any more of those two annoying women. Eleanor and Max especially. Otherwise I would have kept watching.

Season 1 &2 were awesome. There was a battle every episode and no drama. Season 3 is more like a date time soap than the show I started watching. 99% of the scenes in season 3 are people talking. the show has turned into desperate housewives not Black sails. You can't even tell who the bad guys are anymore, they keep changing back and forth like every other show now on TV. That doesn't make a good show it's just lazy writing.

I can't even bring myself to finish this show. I'm changing the channel.

This show started out as a 10 and has fallen to a 1 star so quick...

Totally boring, watch it only if you like soft porn and a meaningless story about pirates. Trying to become a new Game of Thrones, well no way...

Season 4 its everything i don't expect in any movie.. i am not surprised why people don't like it.. all u see is kills and unnecessary tortures. I wont recommend it to no one anymore. That battle between them has no sense anymore and the new staff in this season its only suffering people. I have enough. So many people in the movie so many faces and actors and what u get from that? Boring story

This series has nothing to do with real pirates, except for the costumes and the technology shown in it. The problem with today's movies and TV shows is that if a certain formula works once, everyone starts copying it, and we end up with products that all look the same - only the actors and costumes change.

In Game of Thrones, betrayal, deception, fraud, and the like make sense, since the story mostly revolves around the political and economic elite - the people with the best education and life conditions. But in this pirate series, suddenly almost everyone can read and write. In the 18th century, maybe 15% of people could read, let alone write. That's why the profession of scribes existed!

Here we have pirates before whom Jung and Freud would fail like beginners at mental gymnastics. Everyone is highly educated - even slaves and orphans. Pirates sail across the ocean as if it were a garden pond. Did any of you creators ever hear of the job of a navigator, which very much existed at that time? I can tell you from 20 years of sailing on ocean-going ships that crossing the ocean is not as simple as you imagine. It's not enough to slide a ruler across a map so others think you know what you're doing. If you want to sail on the open sea - where most of the time no coastline is in sight (and even when it is, you might not know which one) - you first need to know your position. Back then, there were no phones with GPS and Google Maps!

But in this show, someone just gives orders, as if the most important thing is knowing the names of the sails! And let's not even start with all the childhood trauma the pirates are shown to be dealing with. If you look into historical records about pirates, you won't find much about how sad their childhoods were, who they were in love with, or how their parents mistreated them. No - you'll read about the atrocities they committed, how many people they killed, what they stole, and how bold and fearless they were. They definitely didn't sit in a circle before attacking a ship to discuss how badly their mother treated them when they were children, or how their father didn't love them enough!

Yes, pirate crews did sometimes change captains, but not like underwear - every five miles at sea. If someone wanted to be captain, they had to know at least a bit about navigation and leading a crew. It's like passengers on a plane can just decide to replace the pilot because they didn't like his welcome speech before takeoff! Yet in this series, everyone wants to be a captain. If being a captain were that easy, all pirates would have been captains!

In the end, this series is nothing more than a drawn-out exercise in mental gymnastics, with actors simply dressed up as pirates.

Bad acting. Ludicrous characters. Bad cgi. It's like a bunch of unsupervised teenagers wrote a pirate series. It's so bad that I really wonder where the good reviews are coming from (Just kidding.. we all know where they come from, right?) If the bits that are supposed to be funny don't make you laugh then hamfisted prurience certainly will. If you're looking for series that is an escape from the worn-to-death modern series cliches, you're looking at the wrong series here. I went into this with great hopes but after apologizing to my wife for wasting her time and insulting her intelligence I turned it off before the first episode was over with. Do yourself a favor and watch something else.

Surprisingly decent, right up until they keelhaul Blackbeard. Historical fiction is one thing, but when you change what actually happened for the worse, all respect is precluded. First season is a bit slow, but it introduces the huge cast of characters. Following two seasons have quite a bit of padding, but still, overall watchable. But man, it jumps the shark almost out of the gates with season four, & continues to circle there drain. The show writers had clearly run out of steam by then, & even the directing seems like they had fallen asleep with the camera rolling at the time. Go read the book "On Stranger Tides" instead.

I started Black Sails expecting a brutal, sharp-edged pirate epic filled with treachery, ambition, and the kind of relentless tension that keeps you glued to the screen. At first, the show genuinely looked like it was going to deliver exactly that. The ships were stunning, the world felt raw and dangerous, and the early political maneuvering had the perfect mix of chaos and strategy. For a while, I thought I'd finally found a pirate series that understood what I wanted.

But the further I went, the more irritated I became. Every time the story built real momentum-every time a confrontation was brewing or a scheme was about to explode-the narrative suddenly veered into yet another heavy relationship subplot. And yes, a lot of those centered on LGBT romances. I'm simply not interested in those themes, and the way the series kept pushing them into the spotlight completely wrecked the tone I was hoping for. Instead of heightening the stakes, these scenes drained the energy right out of the story.

What hit me the hardest was realizing that the main character-this intense, calculated, commanding presence the plot revolves around-turned out to be part of an LGBT storyline. That reveal didn't enhance the narrative for me at all; it clashed with everything I thought the character arc was building toward. Instead of adding depth, it pulled me straight out of the world the show had worked so hard to create. My disappointment wasn't mild-it was the moment the entire series lost me.

By the later episodes, I wasn't just annoyed anymore. I was exhausted. The constant back-and-forth between gritty pirate intrigue and relationship-heavy drama became unbearable, and the imbalance ruined what could have been a phenomenal show.

In the end, Black Sails left me frustrated, drained, and deeply disappointed-an incredible premise overshadowed by choices that just didn't work for me.

If you have an average logical thinking you possibly can't like this, would be fire for a teenager, not fun, very bad ending, very boring in the last seasons filled all the way with literally meaningless conversations between characters whispering in a very teenager cringe way saying random stuff intended to be deep but its meaningless a teenager would think its great.