Black Sails' structure never did make much sense. The climactic event of the season was supposed to be a…
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Cast
Jessica Parker Kennedy (Max)Toby Stephens (Captain Flint)Hannah New (Eleanor Guthrie)Zach McGowan (Captain Charles Vane)Luke Arnold (John Silver)Toby Schmitz (Rackham)Clara Paget (Anne Bonny)Winston Chong (Joji)Tom Hopper (Billy Bones)Andre Jacobs (De Groot)Lise Slabber (Idelle)Laudo Liebenberg (Dooley)Craig Jackson (Featherstone)Hakeem Kae-Kazim (Mr. Scott)Patrick Lyster (Captain Benjamin Hornigold)Luke Roberts (Woodes Rogers)Louise Barnes (Miranda Barlow)Zethu Dlomo-Mphahlele (Madi)
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Creators
Robert Levine, Jonathan E. Steinberg
Synopsis
A prequel to the (fictional) events of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island". The series centres on a group of pirates operating out of Nassau in the Bahamas. We meet characters from history - Captain Charles Vane, Governor Woodes Rogers, Jack Rackham and Anne Bonny - plus characters from fiction - Captain Flint and, of course, Long John Silver.
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