They did some good research on how the Royal Navy and pirate bureaucracies worked, and the production values are good, but then everyone has bleached teeth and they talk anachronistically, all of which troubled me.
Real pirates would be missing teeth (scurvy, battles) and a number of the words in the dialog did not exist in 1815 or even 1915, much less in 1715. It wasn't as if they were speaking Anglo-Saxon; it all would have been understood clearly by viewers. And some fake missing teeth, and some brown teeth would have been good, if the actors' egos could have taken it.
I'm not a big fan of watching actors have fake sex (I'll read sex scenes happily in books, and I'm in no way a prude, but actors always seem so very fake about it).
Better than meh. It was no Master and Commander, but it'll do in a pinch.
Real pirates would be missing teeth (scurvy, battles) and a number of the words in the dialog did not exist in 1815 or even 1915, much less in 1715. It wasn't as if they were speaking Anglo-Saxon; it all would have been understood clearly by viewers. And some fake missing teeth, and some brown teeth would have been good, if the actors' egos could have taken it.
I'm not a big fan of watching actors have fake sex (I'll read sex scenes happily in books, and I'm in no way a prude, but actors always seem so very fake about it).
Better than meh. It was no Master and Commander, but it'll do in a pinch.