Black Sails, Season 1: Episode 5 – “V.”
Written by Doris Egan
Directed by Marc Munden
Airs Saturday nights at 9 on Starz
Much of Black Sails‘ first season has been methodical character-building, and while “V.” doesn’t let up on putting effort into constructing these people and their lives, its centerpiece is something the season has been needing since its opening moments – a battle on the open seas. This is a series about pirates, after all, and the payoff for waiting for a sequence like this is surprisingly effective. Just on the technical level, this is something that a lot of viewers will have been waiting to see. The strategy that Flint executes to get his ship in position to board another is the kind of risk-reward move that fits with the captain, who is constantly in danger of losing everything. Using a pirate prototype of a sniper, the crew weathers a...
Written by Doris Egan
Directed by Marc Munden
Airs Saturday nights at 9 on Starz
Much of Black Sails‘ first season has been methodical character-building, and while “V.” doesn’t let up on putting effort into constructing these people and their lives, its centerpiece is something the season has been needing since its opening moments – a battle on the open seas. This is a series about pirates, after all, and the payoff for waiting for a sequence like this is surprisingly effective. Just on the technical level, this is something that a lot of viewers will have been waiting to see. The strategy that Flint executes to get his ship in position to board another is the kind of risk-reward move that fits with the captain, who is constantly in danger of losing everything. Using a pirate prototype of a sniper, the crew weathers a...
- 2/24/2014
- by Sean Colletti
- SoundOnSight
First trailer for Black Sails, starring Toby Stephens, Luke Arnold and Tom Hopper. Starz has premiered a new trailer for Michael Bay's eagerly-anticipated upcoming series which follows Captain Flint and his pirates some twenty years before Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Also in the cast are Toby Schmitz, Clara Paget, Mark Ryan, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Sean Cameron Michael, Jannes Eiselen, Jessica Parker Kennedy and Zach McGowan. Shot in Cape Town, South Africa, the series is executive-produced by Andrew Form, Bradley Fuller and Bay.
- 4/17/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
First trailer for Black Sails, starring Toby Stephens, Luke Arnold and Tom Hopper. Starz has premiered a new trailer for Michael Bay's eagerly-anticipated upcoming series which follows Captain Flint and his pirates some twenty years before Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Also in the cast are Toby Schmitz, Clara Paget, Mark Ryan, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Sean Cameron Michael, Jannes Eiselen, Jessica Parker Kennedy and Zach McGowan. Shot in Cape Town, South Africa, the series is executive-produced by Andrew Form, Bradley Fuller and Bay.
- 4/17/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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