Black Sails - Season 4
Black Sails is an American television drama series created by Jon Steinberg and Robert Levine for Starz that debuted on January 25, 2014.[1] It was produced by Film Afrika Worldwide and Platinum Dunes. It was written as a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island. The series was renewed for a fourth season on July 31, 2015, approximately six months before the third season premiered.[2] On July 20, 2016, Starz announced that the series' fourth season would be its last; the season premiered on January 29, 2017 and concluded on April 2, 2017.[3][4] During the course of the series, 38 episodes of Black Sails aired over four seasons.
Black Sails - Season 4
So, there you have it. That was a lot of ground to cover in this episode, which was full of character moments and further advanced the plot. As I stated at the beginning, with the show coming to a close (with only a few episodes left), events on Black Sails are going to heat up and escalate quickly. With Flint running away with the cache on Skeleton Island, Silver wanting Flint dead, Billy wanting to see both Flint and Silver dead, Jack wanting to kill Flint to hold up his head of a promising business deal, and Woodes wanting to see all parties hang. I, for one, am definitely excited to see where the next episode (or rather the rest of the season) goes from here,.
Thank you for reviewing the 4 seasons of Black Sails, Adam. This is a really good tv series and I hope more people will discover it thanks to your coverage. The soundtrack is absolutely marvellous (best soundtrack by Bear McCreary, even better than Battlestar Galactica in my humble opinion) and I hope that the music of season 2-4 will be officially released one day.
I guess this is really happy after all and I am so sad, the last season of Black Sails was amazing and the entire series run has been amazing television. Farewell (after Season 4) Black Sails, we were just getting to know ye!
Starz announced today that the fourth season of the Emmy®-winning Original series Black Sails will bring fans to the heroic conclusion of the Treasure Island prequel. The 10-episode fourth season of the stand-out high seas drama returns in 2017, and finds our pirates at war in the West Indies. The shores of New Providence Island have never been bloodier, but the closer civilization comes to defeat, the more desperately, and destructively, it will fight back.
"It's a rare privilege in television to be given the kind of creative freedom we've enjoyed on this show over the last four years. While it was a difficult decision for us to make this season our last, we simply couldn't imagine anything beyond it that would make for a better ending to the story nor a more natural handoff to Treasure Island," said series co-creator and executive producer Jonathan E. Steinberg. "We'd like to thank Chris, Carmi and everyone at Starz for all their faith and support, and to our astounding cast and crew for joining us on this ride."
"Jon Steinberg and Robert Levine, along with their crew and the phenomenal cast, have delivered a spectacular take on the most legendary pirate story in literature, and this final season will bring us to the shores of Treasure Island as was always intended," said Starz Managing Director Carmi Zlotnik. "'Black Sails' has been a tremendous success; from the loyal fan following and strong viewership numbers to awards recognition and the skill of our world-class production in Cape Town, we could not be more proud of this very special series."
The first three seasons of Black Sails averaged 3.6 million multi-platform viewers per episode* and the series is distributed in nearly 200 countries and territories worldwide. Black Sails has been nominated for multiple Emmy Awards, and won in 2014 for Outstanding Special and Visual Effects in a Supporting Role, and Outstanding Sound Editing. The show was also nominated for the 2016 GLAAD Awards for "Outstanding Drama Series."
Black Sails stars Toby Stephens as the brilliant and unstoppable Captain Flint. Stephens is an accomplished film, stage and television actor, who appeared in the feature film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi directed by Michael Bay and released in January 2016, and is well-known for his role in Die Another Day. He starred in BBC's "Vexed" and on stage in "Noel Coward's Private Lives," and his many film credits include Believe and Twelfth Night. London-born Hannah New, who portrays 'Eleanor Guthrie,' starred in the miniseries, "El Tiempo Entre Costuras (The Time Between Seams)" and most recently in 2014's Maleficent. Luke Arnold, who portrays the classic character 'John Silver' in the years before his well-known feats, has appeared in "McLeod's Daughters," "Rush," and most recently starred in the miniseries "INXS: The Michael Hutchence Story." Jessica Parker Kennedy, who plays 'Max,' a former prostitute with an eye towards advancement, is known for her work in the television series, "The Secret Circle," and has appeared in the films 50/50 and In Time. British actor Tom Hopper , who portrays 'Billy Bones' of "Treasure Island" fame, is most well-known for his role as 'Sir Percival' in "Merlin" and appeared in Northmen - A Viking Saga. Zach McGowan is featured as 'Captain Charles Vane,' a rival pirate to Captain Flint. McGowan is most well-known for his roles in the series "Shameless" and "The 100." Ray Stevenson, known for his roles in "Rome," Insurgent, and Divergent, joined the cast in season three as the iconic pirate Blackbeard.
Cast wise nothing has really changed, the leading characters still have their time on the open seas and other minor characters still appear just as frequently as they have before. The characters keep evolving, which shows how versatile this cast truly is. The new governor played by Luke Roberts is slowly dwindling down to a state of insanity as he is constantly being forced to surpass his limits to gain total control over Nassau. Other than that, Madi, played by Zethu Dlomo is gaining a more important role this season, as she is pretty much the head of the alliance between the slaves and the pirates, hoping to bundle their forces into becoming one large organized army.
The bromance between Captain Flint and the newly dubbed Long John Silver has been growing over the last several seasons of Black Sails, and the Season 4 premiere kicked off with Silver admitting he hadn't wanted to kill Flint in months. There wasn't much time to crack morbid jokes, however, as the final season picked up with the pirates attempting to take on the British with flawed information given by Billy Bones. It soon became clear that the Brits sunk ships to force Flint's fleet to run aground, leaving Teach's ship to turn away and avoid the carnage. Men died and drowned before the few that were left escaped on rowboats to hunker down and plan on how to takeover Nassau once more.
This was a rockier start to the season in terms of storytelling than the past two openers for Black Sails (opens in new tab), but Season 4's "XXIX" truly feels different in tone. It finally feels like we are getting to the end of something, although Black Sails is not going to be a series that goes gently into that good night.
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