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Our Flag Means Death: Act of Grace (2022)
Breathtaking, heartbreaking
Well, what to begin with... So long hve I been there with this show that I more do metas thn revies, so let it be spoilering a bit, for those who already saw it. 'Think of new names for us', - Ed tells to Stede, and that is such a small detail to be of great importance, when you think about it fterwards it is painful. What is a name for Ed? A way tk hide from what he sees dangerous, from the whole word really. We still don't know whether Edward is his real name, but still, I hope so. At least, he trust this name to be his sincere one, he introduces as Ed to Stede before, and this name is for his true self, very versatile, very lovely and dangerous same time. And now, he's gonna set himself free... but he's gonna hide himself again behind some false name. He still has a very long way...
Our Flag Means Death: We Gull Way Back (2022)
Really good episode, rarely rewatching it, though =_)
Here you can see a full seminar of how discommunication goes! Jack is notthe problem,Ed himself is! It's not his guilt, though, as far as it's not Stede's one. Two traumatised dudes can't be sincere to each other, one sufferring from kinda school bullying, the other taking it for rejection of his true self, which he fears more than anything in the world, because he himself does not accept who he is... Oh guys, still don't you know what a hell, darkness and ultimate madness this small misunderstanding will end up with... Still, I am proud of Stede here, because he learned to protect his boundaries firmly, with no compromise as it was like in the first episode. Because, no matter what a good friend of Ed Jack is, no one and never dares to make Stede Bonnet's family suffer!
Our Flag Means Death: This Is Happening (2022)
All this was only for the moment Ed beats the snake
Well, this episode is just fluffy, you know? Nothing serious, nothing so dramatic as with Ed crying in the bathroom or Stede having his stomach injured with a Spanish sword. It's really full of things, though. Somehow feel the same axiety as Stede, trying to make a cute little family picnic to feel team spirit, but no one's really interested, but you keep ignoring it because just nothing better comes to your mind... And then, I LOVE Lucius, he literally saves the day, and his 'you can stab m at the face if you want >=(' is something xD Jim's line is so familiar and melancholic, by the way. Them and Wande liteally represent the most healthy and full-of-understanding relation here.
Our Flag Means Death: The Art of F**kery (2022)
Bad dad made him drown the dog((
So, where is where all things change dramatically, isn't it? Ed tries to make himself perpetrate something really awfull to the one he really values as a friend and, since the previous episode, as a guard also. All this just to fit the life he doesn't want, not to lose the support of the one he doesn't want to stay with... It looks like a comedy episode but hides a drama deep inside. But can we now talk about Swede singing so beautiful, as Wee Jown being a charismatic Black Cat of Death?) Also, Pete is my little hero, with his worry for Lucius ad that wooden finger))
See how humane Stede is here, this is what really makes him the real captain of The Revenge, since the beginning and the whole time after. Not 'weak' or 'soft', but really having that love for people, ready to be injured not to injure hi own opponent, at the time the opponent acts ruthless, arrogant and disrespectful. It doesn't seem so now, but the day will come when Izzy will fully feel and understand how much stronger Stede is than everyone he ever used to know.
Our Flag Means Death: Discomfort in a Married State (2022)
So nice fabric
Here ends the exposition and begins the golden era of the whole show! Taika and Rhys are both charismatic and, what's more, they're are old friends working together for a long time, so their interplay has this spark and taste of deep mutual symphaty and understanding. Oh, by the way, notice thatnot only Stede has some forced-marriage discomfort here, Ed does also =D. This episode is one of the most fulfilled with geniusly made symbolic things, from the lighthouse metaphors to the gravestone-like windows behind the family dinner table. Symbols play a huge role there the whole time, still they are so little and unobtrasive.
Our Flag Means Death: A Gentleman Pirate (2022)
The tapas show
Here we open the Nathan Foad's fanclub. This guy is actually pretty talanted in acting and micromimics! Stede and him are like two last brain cells when you try out something you've never done before: one makes a tone of cringe pretending to look confident, and the other one just plays off all the irony on it and points out all the awkwardness of the first one's actions... but follows anyway, because what else can it do?
By the way, Ed's a.k.a. Blackbeard's story also begins there, nya-a... Keep in mind your first impression of him, then compre to what you see next. This babygirl is far more complicated than he seems to be at first sight.
Our Flag Means Death: A Damned Man (2022)
Sometimes everyone needs a psychotherapy from that good island old man =_)
Well, here we first meet 'that evil little goat' Izzy Hands starring Con o'Neil and... guys, you can't even ASSUME what a destructively important role this guy has here and how you're gonna love and hate him at the same time, each time he appears on the screen since then... Well, it was a small minute of Izzy-enjoyer internal scream. Back to the story, have you already started to notice that this show is more multi-faceted than it's supposed to be? Take a note of what Stede feels his guilt for, because i's also gonna be very, very important, up to changing the whole genre of the show when coming closer to the second season...
Our Flag Means Death: Pilot (2022)
Pirate's life, short but nice..
GOSH how familiar and close to heart it seems now. A year or so ago the first episodes seemed a little bit cringy to me, but now it's, like, the twenty firsttime I rewatch the whole show?.. And when I see it all again, the only reaction is 'Oh boy, I feel like you so much, stay strong we beg ya =_)' Because this is EXACTLY how it looks like when you really try to change something in your life, with no help,no support, knowing nothing about what's gonna be next but having that desperate confidence of the one who cannot live like they used to live before, because it just hurts and makes no sense in the same time.
Our Flag Means Death (2022)
Ah well, it literally keeps me afloat
It's a kind and beautiful story, psycologically accurate, funny, dramatic, balancing between action, romance, tragedy and comedy. Seems like my life would be completely different without it. Less love I would feel, at least. OFMD's fandom is the warmest and cohesive community I've ever been lucky to belong to.
Talking about the series itself, the first season is more like a comedy, while the second one (the first three episodes, at least) is much more serious, be ready to deal with the darkness, mates =_) Everything is like that here, being something more than it seems to be: comedy not comedy, pirates not pirates, the only thing to be comprehensively true is love, in a broad human sense, in various forms, all love Jenkins and friends could give it, and us. I'm really looking forward toseeing what's gonna be next, because you know how Carrie Underwood sings, 'in the end Love wins'. Praying for the 3rd season, give it your best,guys, we love ya!!