Our Flag Means Death Episodes 7 And 8 Review
Our Flag Means Death delivers yet another perfect dosage of pirate shenanigans, and though in its third week in the combined efforts of Stede Bonnet and Blackbeard turn out what is perhaps their weakest showing, it’s still enough to keep things going ahead of an exciting, albeit maybe historically inaccurate finale.
In that sense, the producing team, writers and directors behind HBO Max’s pirate comedy deserve plenty of praise because Our Flag Means Death has been split up in four clearly cut segments. The first three episodes introduced Bonnet’s bumbling pirate gang, last week’s trifecta showed Stede and Blackbeard’s relationship blossom and this time around the show harvests that friendship as the two protagonists and other crew members are forced to choose their true allegiances.
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Episode seven, “This Is Happening”, is pretty much more of the same — Stede has a terrible idea born out of his aristocratic mind and buys a treasure map from a stranger, thus putting part of the crew on a treasure hunt, despite Blackbeard’s own assertion that pirates don’t really go digging up for treasure like he believes. Meanwhile, the rest of the pirates are off to find some oranges, as the crew’s desserts preferences have left them without a single citrusy delicacy which triggers the worst symptoms of the Swede’s scurvy condition (aka vitamin C deficiency).
The latter does wonders to set up a lot of the jokes and pirate humor viewers might have gotten used to these past couple of weeks, however, it also puts Jim (Bonifacia) back on home soil, something that triggers a few blasts from the past. It so happens that Jim was raised an orphan by a rather resourceful nun, and put
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