Black Sails' structure never did make much sense. The climactic event of the season was supposed to be a…
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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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