7.874 minSeason 4 • Episode 10
LatestFlint makes a final push to topple England. Silver seals his fate. Rackham confronts Rogers. Nassau is changed forever.
The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes by the name John Silver. Threatened with extinction on all sides, they fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day – a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both its enlightened ideals and its stunning brutality.
Writing
Season 2's Charles Vane monologue belongs in museums.
Costume
Eleanor's power dresses weaponize 18th-century femininity.
Acting
Toby Stephens' Flint: terrifying tenderness, always.
Creators
Jonathan E. Steinberg, Robert Levine
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Real historical pirates like Anne Bonny and Calico Jack appear, but the show invents their emotional lives whole cloth.
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