Black Sails - Season 1 Watch Free in HD

The series centers on the tales of Captain Flint, who has a reputation throughout the West Indies as being the most brilliant, most feared of all the Golden Age pirates. The series is a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Treasure Island,' and is set 20 years before the events depicted in that literary classic.

Genre:

Drama, Adventure

Actors:

Toby Stephens, Hannah New, Luke Arnold, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Tom Hopper, Zach McGowan, Toby Schmitz, Clara Paget, Mark Ryan, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Sean Cameron Michael, ...»

Director:

Neil Marshall, Sam Miller

Country:

United States

Release:

2014

IMDb:

8.2

Quality:

Duration:

56 min

Newark Star-Ledger

The era is a rich vein to mine, and to their credit, the creators are light on pirate cliches - I do not believe one "aargh!" is uttered. More swashbuckling please.

January 27, 2014

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We Got This Covered

Black Sails may not be the most well written or riveting story on TV at the moment, but it's certainly going to fill that lustful void for violence and graphic action.

January 21, 2014

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indieWire

But there's an intelligence to its treatment of the Nassau community and whether a settlement based on lawlessness and a shadow economy is sustainable -- one that takes the series in some complicated and unexpected directions.

January 22, 2014

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Zap2it.com

Black Sails is actually spinning a cleverly-crafted tale of intrigue, secrets and deceit surrounding a race for an enormous cache of gold in a Spanish galleon.

January 27, 2014

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Media Life

To paraphrase Woody Allen's paraphrase of an old joke, what Black Sails has to offer is mediocre, and the portions are small.

January 24, 2014

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What Culture

Another notable criticism is the pacing, as after a fair battle in the opening scene the rest of the episode fell straight down the cliff. A long, boring cliff.

January 29, 2014

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Denver Post

Maybe they were going for "Deadwood on the Beach," with the politics of organizing an unruly bunch the underlying theme. Instead, they got "Spartacus Island," a less-elevated narrative with violence in keeping with the Starz brand.

January 27, 2014

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Philadelphia Inquirer

If you're more action-oriented, you'll soon find yourself shouting at the screen, "Less talking, more cannon fire."

January 27, 2014

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Kansas City Star

Black Sails is exactly like the 18th-century Caribbean pirates it brings to life: dirty, amoral and worth stomaching only when there are no women around.

January 17, 2014

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Grantland

If this sounds (a) like the least merry pirate yarn ever constructed, and (b) a little bit like Game of Thrones, feel free to shiver your own timbers.

January 22, 2014

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Black Sails - Season 1

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