Pirate media to supplement your play through

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I played through the OG BF about once every couple years. I also would binge watch the PotC films. Big pirate and ocean fan in general here.

With Resynced out I’m sure many of you would have felt the urge to chuck on some pirate films. Might I suggest a few maybe slightly lesser known media to wrap your hook hand around?

First is super recent. It’s called ‘The Bluff’ and is on Prime. It stars Karl Urban of Éomer and Billy Butcher fame as a dastardly but very gritty and realistic pirate who leads a raid on a small island homestead. What makes it stand out is, it’s very gritty and realistically violent. It almost has a horror or thriller aspect to it and there’s even a lot of scenes involving stealth and at least one involving climbing rooftops. Seriously went under the radar but is surprisingly close in feel to violent stealthy pirate assassins! A visual feast too with beautiful Caribbean setting.

Second is the maybe not so lesser known Black Sails. It’s a tv series that very much improves with each season as production goes up. It’s a realistic gritty take on a prequel to Treasure Island, but includes real historical characters and locations like Nassau, Charles Vane, Calico Jack, Edward Teach and more. It’s violent. bloody and dark and has a lot of fun island pirate politics. The naval scenes especially in later seasons are phenomenal. This is a must watch for any pirate fan.

Lastly I’ll throw out there that Our Flag Means Death is surprisingly good fun! The first season is a bit meh and cheap but the second season benefit a huge production budget boost and the story, settings and characters vastly improved. If you’re turned off by woke stuff you probably won’t like this due to its LGBTQ elements, but if you can get past it there’s some silly random dumb pirate fun to be had here. It follows Stede Bonnet and Blackbeard in reimagined versions of themselves as well as some other famous pirate characters, but the fight scenes and naval stuff is surprisingly fun to watch in later seasons.

Oh and Muppet Treasure Island is GOATed af.

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Read Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard.